La Vista has reached issue five. A staff of 70ish high school students has pieced together a 20 page newspaper every three weeks for almost an entire semester. Over 2,400 students have read a cumulative total of about four articles, and we here at BOOYAH believe we can call you guys our friends by now.
As friends, it’s time we let you in on some important information: BOOYAH actually is an acronym.
Senioritis, however, has stopped us from figuring out what it stands for. We’ve racked our brains in an effort to string together six coherent words, but we’ve failed. So far we’ve got “Bring On Ocelots Yeah Archaeology Hey” and “Breakfast Oughta Organize Your Arsenic, Harold.”
Hopefully we’ll figure it out by the end of this article. For now, back to sports. The regular season for almost every sport began this week, and La Vista is here to deliver hard-hitting coverage on the most wildly entertaining of all of them: kiddie basketball.
Opening night for Manhattan Beach Youth Basketball was a grand time for all parties involved. A broken scoreboard posed some adversity, but players didn’t let it faze them. You don’t lay down a participation fee of $120 for nothing, and these high schoolers don’t mess around. One game even went into overtime; it was out of control.
As usual, the shoe-price-to-skill-level ratio was off the charts. Including money for warm-up outfits, the amount spent on MBYB’s high school division comes to about 100 times the total MBUSD budget. Pledge Day can wait. We need our padded walking-from-the-car-to-the-gym sandals.
Unfortunately, our own desire to ball must submit to our yearning to talk smack about balling, so here it is: our acronym. Boys On Occasion Yammering About Hoops. B.O.O.Y.A.H. would like to thank you for making it this far. We just added the fifth tally to our “stories read” count.
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