Oxy Hoops in the SF Chronicle

FROM THE JAN. 11 CHRON: 

But the big news on Caltech’s Pasadena campus came Saturday: Caltech won a basketball game. It may seem that Caltech, a nonscholarship Division III program, last won a game 540 million years ago when single-celled forms ruled the earth, but it was really a little more than two years ago, when the Beavers topped Life Pacific back in November 2004.

Saturday’s 81-52 victory over Bard College ended that 59-game losing streak, but perhaps more significant, it halted Caltech’s 207-game losing streak to NCAA Division III opponents, a streak that began after the Beavers’ 1996 victory over Principia.

Caltech still has a 22-year, 246-game conference (SCIAC) losing streak after Wednesday night’s 103-40 loss to Occidental, so there are still some mountains to climb.

HAPPY TO SEE THE UNIVERSAL CONSTANT OF OXY CRUSHING CALTECH IS STILL IN PLAY.

Bizarre Phone Call

Just an odd note of yesterday’s events – received a call from a co-worker to ask me if an acquaintence of mine was an Axe murderer… she had met him in a local bar in Monterey and they had a dinner date scheduled…

I let her know I didn’t think Lee would murder her, but I did note it odd that Lee was here in Monterey and had not contacted me (his mom lives here)… actually that is not odd… that’s Lee.

When I hear details I will happily pass them on to all that are interested.

Ron