I actually started laughing while reading an article in Monday’s paper about how the USC women’s basketball team feels highly disrespected after getting a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament because it wasn’t the right No. 1 seed. Are you kidding me? No wonder people refer to their school as the University of Spoiled Children.

Alan Abajian
Alta Loma

I watched the high school state basketball championships and came away with these thoughts. Roosevelt’s Brayden Burries is probably the nation’s best player. His performance at the state finals was incredible. My heart went out to Alijah Arenas, who stayed loyal to Chatsworth. It was a tough night being double- and triple-teamed. His did his school and himself proud. The Etiwanda girls were the best team in the tournament, period. But my favorite champion was the Whitney girls, who were led by Haylie Wang. For once, the smart kids won a championship. And, good job to the public schools for beating the recruited players from the private schools.

Mark Walker
Yorba Linda

So Eric Sondheimer thinks “LeBron James’ presence helped bring out one of the largest crowds” for the Sierra Canyon boys’ basketball game. In other words some people drove to the high school game and bought a ticket just to get a glimpse of James. And son Bryce went for three points, which means he will likely skip college and join dad with the Lakers right away.

Bert Bergen
La Canada

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