Author: Frisco Del Rosario

It wasn’t the news that Missouri forward Sara-Rose Smith entered the portal that grabbed me as much as the photo. Missouri’s athletic department reported attendance of UT-Martin at Missouri 11/17/22 as 2107. I’ve never liked the practice of reporting tickets sold as bodies in attendance, but it’s become one of those things nobody thinks about. […]

Mississippi Valley State is where Jerry Rice went to college, which is all I know about it. I was working for the Concord Express, a small newspaper that’s never heard of you, either, in 1985. On NFL draft day, its editor — fellow named Tom Beaudin, I recall — seemed thrilled that the San Francisco […]

I was smug following the NCAA tournament that we’d lose no one. Who’d want to leave?! I said. The Utes lost two post-season games, to the winner of the Pac-12 tournament, and to the winner of the national championship. No graduation losses (er, Palmer graduated yesterday, but I don’t consider her a flight risk), and […]

perhaps the couldn’t-miss team didn’t need as much help from the officials as they received. Their decisions to tag Clark and Cinzano with their fourth fouls at 1:0x left the third were,at best questionable. I said a number of times that I was tired of watching the parade float that is LSU celebrate, so the […]

I wrote to General Mills to suggest Caitlin Clark be put on the Wheaties box. Clark and the University of Iowa Hawkeyes are on the verge of an NCAA women’s basketball championship — Coach Bluder called them a team of destiny — while Clark is the Naismith national player of the year AND the Academic […]

One of them survives to reach the round of 4, in case UCLA can’t keep the conference afloat against South Carolina.

Utah’s reward for knocking out the Princeton Tigers is a round-of-16 game with the Louisiana State University Tigers. Say the Utes lose; what’s the verdict? Around the turn of the ’10s, two Pacific Tigers (Did I ever imagine there’d come a time when I couldn’t remember exact dates and faces, but I’d still be covering […]

The mountain teams, who presented the most difficult road trip in the Pac-12 Conference, are still alive in the round of 16. What we need now is for someone to knock off the Buffaloes, then lose to the Utes, after which Coach Roberts can say with more than one grain of truth: “That’s how it’s […]

South Dakota State and Dru Gylten are gone. Isabel Palmer is on the floor, and this looks like a game Utah could lose. Sure, there are outstanding defensive teams in the Pac-12, but Princeton is a tiger of a different defensive stripe. Four Princeton points later, they remind me of last year’s Oregon team, or […]

I shed two bulky sweaters so an Asian kid at the wellness center could attach the blood pressure cuff, getting down to a Utah women’s basketball T-shirt. “You’re the basketball guy!” he said, and I thought: “Holy shit, what do these people talk about while patients come and go”. “Can you help me with my […]