Rest of My Weekend

Sorry for the lack of posts the last couple of days. This was another busy weekend as I was basically running around the entire city of Los Angeles. First of all, a belated L'Shanah Tovah to all of my fellow-Jewish readers out there. I hope everyone had a great holiday, and I wish you all a happy, healthy, and sweet new year!

Saturday, I interned at my third Kings game of the week. The rival Anaheim Ducks were in town for a preseason affair and were sent packing with a 4-1 beating from the Kings. The team's top draft pick this past year scored twice, which got a roar from the crowd. It was a fun game to work at, and I did my usual helping out of providing out of town score updates, letting the people in the press box know the announcers' three stars of the game, etc.

I spent some of my time walking around the Staples Center just to see the place as a whole and what it had to offer. I've posted a few pictures below, but check them all out on my Facebook album.

Staples Center Ice

Seating Bowl with 3 Levels of Suites

View from the Press Box

Inside the Press Box

The Main Concourse

The highlight, though, was that there were 25 or so people from the Ithaca LA program that came to the game. During the 2nd intermission, with the good graces from radio play-by-play announcer Nick Nickson, I brought over a bunch of them to check out the broadcast booth and meet Nick. For those who don't know yet, Nick is an Ithaca alum as well, and he was very excited to meet some of the current IC students. On the other side, everyone who came over enjoyed meeting him and color analyst Daryl Evans as well as seeing where they work every night. It was a pretty cool experience!

On Sunday, I went down to Torrance to do some serious editing for this week's show. I edited together two packages. One is a highlight package on this past week's Football game between South High School and Burroughs High, which is actually located in Burbank. The other is a preview package on this year's South High girls volleyball team. Both came out pretty good in my mind. Once links to both of those as well as my El Camino College football preview package are posted online, I will definitely post them up here.

Finally, I was graciously invited last night to have dinner at the house of two friends of my mother and uncle, Bob and Gloria. They live in Thousand Oaks on the complex of the Sherwood Country Club, which is a very nice golf course. Among others that live there are Broadcasting Hall-of-Famer Vin Scully, Pete Sampras, Paul Anka, and Wayne Gretzky used to live there along with Lenny Dykstra. Bob and Gloria were excellent hosts, provided me with a tour of their lovely home, featuring a ton of sports memorabilia, and a fantastic dinner. Thank you both once again for a great time and one of the best meals I have had since I've been in LA.

As for this week, I will be going to the Yankees-Angels game in Anaheim tomorrow night, classes on Wednesday, covering North High's volleyball game Thursday, doing some editing Friday and/or Saturday, and interning at the Kings-Ducks game in Anaheim on Sunday. I'm very excited to see Angels Stadium and the Honda Center this week! I only wish I was able to go to Las Vegas to see the team play on Saturday against the Avalanche.