In Season 3 Episode 10 of Teed Up, the hosts Matthew Gomez and Naoki Gima interview Sam Blum, Los Angeles Angels beat writer for The Athletic.
Tag: Big West Conference Tournament
Big West title hopes swept away for men’s volleyball
UCI avenges it’s two defeats to Long Beach State over the past eight days with emphatic sweep in the Big West semifinal.
No. 6 Long Beach heads to Hawaii for the Big West Tournament
The Big West beach volleyball tournament this weekend will feature three teams ranked top 10 in the nation. No. 3 Hawaii, No. 4 Cal Poly and No. 6 Long Beach State will battle for the Big West Conference Championship trophy and an opportunity to make the NCAA tournament. The tournament[Read More…]
No. 1 Long Beach looks to finish its season with a championship
The last time Long Beach State won a national championship, Michael Jordan finished his second three-peat with the Chicago Bulls, Google had just launched its search engine and the very first MP3 player was introduced. It’s been 20 years since Long Beach has tasted a national championship, when the[Read More…]
No. 1 Long Beach State sweeps No. 6 Hawaii for Big West Conference title
In what can only be described as redemption, the No. 1 seed Long Beach State men’s volleyball team dismantled the No. 2 seed University of Hawaii Saturday in the Big West tournament championship, pleasing 2,325 fans at the Walter Pyramid. Exactly one week after suffering a brutal five-set loss in[Read More…]
No. 1 Long Beach State headed to Big West Championship
Three methodical steps, a jump and a thunderous swing of the right arm unleashed a 65 mph rocket serve from Long Beach State junior outside hitter TJ DeFalco, leaving opposing libero Emmett Enriques stuck like a deer in headlights as the ball would bite him in the shoulder and shoot[Read More…]
A look back at LBSU women’s basketball season
The process of making diamonds is a complicated, yet simple process: a lump of coal (or carbon) faces immense heat and pressure underground and if everything goes well, a diamond is formed. With any luck, the Long Beach State’s women’s basketball team could turn a coal of a season into[Read More…]
The end of an era, but a fresh start for the 49ers
“If we stop Gabe Levin, we stop Long Beach,” Fullerton sophomore forward Jackson Rowe said during [the Big West quarter finals]. This quote has been resonating with me ever since Thursday’s heartbreaking 76-74 Big West quarterfinals loss to Cal State Fullerton. Levin became the face of Long Beach State basketball,[Read More…]
LBSU women’s soccer ready to make push for a Big West Conference Tournament spot
It’s make-or-break time for the defending Big West Conference champions. The Long Beach State women’s soccer team will need positive results from its next two games to have any chance of qualifying for this season’s tournament. LBSU (8-6-2, 2-3-1 Big West) currently find itself in a three-way tie for sixth[Read More…]
Jody and Derek Wynn have made 49ers contenders
Jody met Derek Wynn in her junior year at Southern California. Derek, then a student at Cal State Fullerton, coached high school basketball. “A mutual friend of ours, who was a football player at USC introduced us,” Jody said. “It was late in my junior year; he came to a[Read More…]