By Kyle Allen, Duncan Gregory, Robin Janotta, Zack Rosenfeld, Eric Zheng
There are two activities that the La Vista staff is always wildly enthusiastic about: Scholar Quiz and basketball. However, with the four La Vista members of Team Shaw dominating last year’s Scholar Quiz competition, we have now shifted our attention to the hardwood.
The La Vista Basketball Association is set to enter its second year of existence, and in spite of the graduation of the super-coordinated Iktae Park, we are all still super excited about another year of high-flying dunks from Kyle Allen. Provided that none of our staff is held back by carpal tunnel injuries, we expect more of the same highlight-reel plays that dominated ESPN last year.
Aside from physically owning at basketball, we at La Vista also enjoy copyright infringement and streaming NBA games during production weeks. Unfortunately, this practice may not be able to continue due to the impending NBA lockout. However, before a likely hiatus from NBA games, we were blessed with a chance to see Andre Iguodala, Blake Griffin and many other NBA players training at Fisher Gym.
Getting into the tournament with our La Vista press passes was likely the highlight of the experience, but the tournament also provided us with an intriguing idea: to keep those NBA players at Costa and sign them into the La Vista Basketball Association. It was formed last year. Welcome back, three returning readers.
The process will be simple. Prospective LVBA players will tryout by writing two of our increasingly annoying staff-eds, buying the entire staff (including circulation and business) dinner, and playing one-on-one to 11 with Zack Rosenfeld. Only players talented enough to complete the stories, provide non-vegetarian food, and keep the score within 10 points versus Zack will be accepted into the league.
However, as much as we like to kid around here, the league will have some rules. You aren’t allowed to change your name to Metta World Peace, beat up fans, interrupt a Taylor Swift speech, evolve to Charmander, wear sleeves to cover up your tattoos, steal sports memorablilia, be bald (Sorry Mr. Timberlake), think that Model U.N. is a model, have a narcissistic half-hour opening montage, or lose in football 33-0 to Serra. Zing! We’ll be waiting for that hatemail.
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