It has been a month since the playoffs have started, and now we are down to the final two teams in the Eastern Conference, the Chicago Bulls and the Miami Heat. As the one and two seeds respectively, this matchup wasn’t unexpected, but the fact that the Bulls who won 62 games underdogs is. Here’s [...]
Ahhh yes, it’s March again, which means a crazy month for people. March has St. Patrick’s Day and spring is right around the corner. But what dominates the public’s lives for these 31days is the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Both basketball junkies and mild sports fans go wild at the thought of March Madness, and even [...]
The boys’ basketball team’s dream season came to an end Saturday, March 19, 2011. The Spartans fell against the La Verne Lutheran Trojans in the regional final, 57-47 The Spartans entered the final with tremendous momentum, after capturing the CIF championship and winning two heart-stopping games to qualify for their matchup with Trojans. But La [...]
In the final home game the seniors will ever play, the Spartans put on another immaculate performance that no member of the electrified crowd will ever forget. The Spartans defeated the storied Inglewood Sentinels 60-50 to advance to the SoCal regional final and State championship semifinal. La Cañada appeared a bit sluggish in the [...]
In the 2nd round of State playoffs, the Spartans defeated the Crespi Celts in another nail-biting finish. They won by the slimmest of margins, 43-42, securing a 3rd round home matchup against the Inglewood Sentinels. The CIF champions came out of the gates strong as senior Matt Faber connected from three to open the [...]
No one at the Anaheim Convention Center will ever forget the performance they witnessed this past Thursday, March 3rd, 2011: A truly remarkable collaboration of talent and character; the perfect formula for victory. The Spartans defeated highly touted Price High School 50-47, securing the team’s first CIF championship since 1992. Before tip-off, Coach Hofman advised [...]
In another instant classic, the Spartans continued their remarkable road to a CIF championship with a 61-60 overtime victory against the Palm Springs Indians. The venue of the game was the “neutral” site of Shadow Hill High School located in Indio, a city neighboring Palm Springs. The 1st quarter began with a bang as senior [...]
There was no doubt the student section would storm the court after last Tuesday’s game against Bishop Montgomery. Indeed the double overtime thriller was one of the greatest games in school history. The Spartans played the visiting Knights to a virtual stalemate in the first quarter. However La Canada had an explosive 20 point second [...]
On Wednesday, February 16th, the La Canada Spartans took on the West Torrance Warriors in the second round of CIF playoffs. The Spartans came out of the gates strong, scoring 18 points in the first quarter, including an alley-oop dunk by Senior Matt Faber. “[The] Spartans were dominant, especially in the first half,” said opposing [...]
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On April 22, the first of seven performances of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” earned applause and waves of laugher from La Cañada High School. The performance starred senior Sam Whitefield as the tricky Oberon and sophomore Garret Schlunt as his witty sidekick, Puck. With the combination of physical comedy and some clever timing, [...]
Are you in desperate craving of a chilling play that will take you far beyond the horrors of our world and imagination? Well, lucky for you, the La Cañada Playhouse is presenting the creepy and thrilling classic horror production of “Dracula” later this month. Based on Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel, “Dracula” will [...]