A White Elephant gift exchange is a holiday tradition where participants vie to walk away with the best present by either picking a wrapped gift or taking a previous participant’s unwrapped gift. The game between the Acalanes and Benicia JV football teams seemed to follow a similar format given the number of gifts exchanged in the form of penalties, fumbles,…
On a hot October evening, with the temperature a sweltering 86 degrees at kickoff, the Acalanes Dons freshmen football team welcome the Matadors of Granada to Acalanes Stadium. Handshakes are exchanged, a coin is tossed, and the Matadors defer the ball to the second half, giving the Dons the first crack at putting points on the board. #22 Illias Kaplanes-Jones…
It stinks. No other way to look at it. It stinks to high heaven. Losing a game to a rival when there were chances to win never feels good. The Dons fell to their cross-town rivals last Friday night, 24-27 after a last-minute drive ended with their fourth turnover of the game. That’s right, four gifts that the Dons gave…
A pun is a joke exploiting the possible different meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings, such as when a kid says “I need some new jeans” and the parent responds “Why? You don’t like the great genes I gave you?” So why the theme of puns on a…
Anything that lasts needs to be built with a strong foundation. With buildings, the foundation is underground, unseen but absolutely critical to whatever is built on top. No matter how ornate and expansive the trappings of the building might be, it all is for naught if the foundation isn’t solid. On a football team, the foundation is built on the…
The first reality TV show, “America’s Candid Camera”, aired in 1948. Reality TV emerged as a distinct genre in the early 1990s with MTV’s “The Real World” followed by shows such as “Survivor”, “American Idol”, and the “Bachelor”. In football, there is HBO’s “Hard Knocks” which follows NFL teams through training camp, and of course “Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders: Making the Team” which…
We woo woo’ed, we yelled, we stomped, we cheered, we jumped up and we high fived; each game is a triumph of the spirit of what a football family really looks like. Whether our boys win or lose – Dons show up! Thursday night the Dons came home on the bus with a V-I- C-T-O-R-Y! We love our Dons! That’s…
It has been said that there are three parts to a high school football season. The five games before league games start, the five league games, and, hopefully, the playoffs. Many schools choose to schedule easy games during the pre-league schedule, especially in leagues that are very competitive, like the DAL Foothill. However, this was not the case with our…
The Acalanes JV football team was planning to play one quarter against the Oakland Varsity team on Friday. If that had been the case, the team would have only played one full game and a total of 50 minutes of football over 50,400 total minutes from the end of the Bishop O’Dowd game on September 2 until kickoff against Las…
The Freshman Dons do not play nice football. A tough game for the Dublin Gael’s, but for the Don’s Thursday’s game was a confidence boost for both offense and defense. Thursday followed a tough loss against the Redwood Giants. With a final score 12-14, the team battled against the Giants, the clock, and hard-hitting penalties: scoring a touchdown, forcing the…