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Gunn reaches final table for CCS football teams with two or fewer losses on the season

Posted on December 12, 2021 by markweiss86

  San Mateo Bearcats# Santa Cruz Cardinals# Salinas Cowboys* Scotts Valley Falcons San Benito Haybalers* Menlo Knights^ Saint Francis Lancers* Leigh Longhorns# Aptos Mariners* King City Mustangs# Serra Padres* Cupertino Pioneers* Gunn Titans^ Los Gatos Wildcats# (#Animals 6, *Historical 6, … Continue reading →

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Gunn hoops ranked #1 in CCS

Posted on December 7, 2021 by markweiss86

Desite losing to Bellarmine by 36 points: by MaxPreps, minimum of five games played; Titans start 5-1 with wins over Cupertino, Kent Lockhart not included; local rules, gravity, chaos, Heisenberg, still apply. AI is Allen Iverson not your stupid algorhythm. … Continue reading →

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Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Kent Lockhart, Danny McCalister, LenRay McCalister

Posted on December 11, 2020 by markweiss86

LenRay McCalister has died, age 49. His brother Stanley was my teammate for Gunn basketball, and his oldest brother Danny McCalister was a star of the Gunn Titans first championship basketball team, 22-5 in 1979-1980. There were six McCalister brothers … Continue reading →

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Gunn grad announces Levitation Year

Posted on August 5, 2020 by markweiss86

Kendra Smaby class of 2020 plans “to float and drift a bit while I ponder my options” Considering Air Force, circus or philosophy. the truth will set us fly.

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Hey, 19 that’s 8 and 1

Posted on November 2, 2019 by markweiss86

That’s funny in that due to my cold I decided, despite emailing a list of 30 people about the game, to stay home. But a couple hours earlier at the Pace Palo Alto Picasso Show opening I saw a well … Continue reading →

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Gunn rooter honors former player

Posted on April 21, 2015 by markweiss86

As a former Gunn basketball player, I noted with interest that other Gunn rooters, parents or neighbors of current students, told me that Cameron Lee, who took his own life in November, was a basketball player, and likely Varsity player. … Continue reading →

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CJ, Coach, Rambis and me, no kidding: honorable mentions of all time Bay Area and Palo Alto prep hoops legends

Posted on March 26, 2015 by markweiss86

Hans Delannoy and I it seems like just yesterday — March 25, 2015 — were discussing an all time Palo Alto All City team, maybe five groups of five or 25 deep, and maybe a top 20 all Gunn team … Continue reading →

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I shot 450 photos at 22 high school basketball games this season

Posted on March 4, 2015 by markweiss86

and1: this one is on my camera/ phone but shot by I think former Coach Redfield, and shows me in front of the exact basket where 30 years or so prior, in 1981, my junior year at Gunn I scored … Continue reading →

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‘Excellence’ Gunn w. Raiders

Posted on February 3, 2015 by markweiss86

I shot my former Gunn hoops contemporary and champion Matt Passell at the scorers table for his boy’s frosh soph game Tuesday and noticed a motto: “A tradition of excellence”. Reminds that after two years helming The Oracle I established … Continue reading →

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Some thoughts on the schools

Posted on January 30, 2015 by markweiss86

I stood after leaving the Open Forum part of Tuesday’s meeting in the dark with three strangers, with a Mom, her son and another boy,who might have been a speaker, a source quoted above and the son of someone I … Continue reading →

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