Sports Columns
Any race program featuring three Grade I stakes is worthy of attention. On Saturday at Santa Anita Park, the Santa Anita Oaks, Kilroe Mile and Santa Anita Handicap will make for an outstanding day of horse racing.
There is a quaintness, an innocence, a satin-warmup-jacket, canvas-basketball-sneaker naivete about watching the dots on the Nevada map decide their high school state basketball championships at Orleans Arena on Saturday that one doesn’t necessarily get when the big and haughty schools from Las Vegas and Reno decide theirs on Friday night.
SAN DIEGO — This was the scene: On one end of the basketball court at Viejas Arena, San Diego State players danced and pranced and hooted and hollered, bumping chests and slapping hands and laughing up a storm while expending all sorts of energy dunking.