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Basketball is Back at Soboba Wrestling Isn’t Just on Television
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ast year’s annual Soboba Braves’ hosted basketball tournament was played just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down sports for many months. This year, the 8th annual tournament was bigger and better than ever with 17 teams competing during three days of play, July 9 through 11. Offering its all-time highest payouts gave players even more incentive to do their best on the courts at San Jacinto High School and the Soboba Sports Complex during the double elimination competition, meaning some teams could play up to eight games during the weekend. The Soboba Braves Summer Shootout was an open basketball tournament. Charlotte Boniface helps her sons with the tournament each year. The Soboba Braves have been together about 11 years, having played basketball together since high school. They travelled to many tournaments throughout the west before deciding to host their own all-Native and open tournaments. This year’s Soboba Braves team members were Javier Sandoval, Freddie Boniface, Nicolas Resvaloso, David Reyna, Trey Track and Nathaniel Moore. “Basketball is my favorite sport and I like the fast pace of it; it never gets boring because there’s always room for improvement,” Sandoval
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M TEAM: Supreme Black Leather took first place at the Soboba Braves Summer
Shootout open basketball tournament, which ended July 11. | Photo courtesy of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians.
said. “I am a guard on the team and more of a role player, doing whatever the team needs with me.” The team sported new uniforms this year designed by Sandoval and Freddie Boniface with a memorial patch in honor of Freddie’s girlfriend, Solie Rubio, who passed away. “Solie was our number one fan and at every game,” Sandoval said. “We all love you, Sol, and miss your loud energy in the stands.” Charlotte Boniface hosts fund raisers throughout the year and operates a snack bar during the tournaments with the help of many
TEAM: Diezels Dudes ended the weekend-long Soboba Braves Summer Shootout
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open basketball tournament with a second-place finish. | Photo courtesy of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians.
friends and family members and saying “My family is awesome – I have at least 10 aunts and cousins helping me with the snack bar.” This year’s $7,000 payout to the first-place team was made possible through registration fees. Gifts for second- and third-place teams and referees’ costs were paid through fundraising efforts. They also received a sponsorship from the Soboba Foundation that helped with the cost of renting the San Jacinto High School gym for several games. “We are thankful to the high school for letting us use their court; the Tribe has a good relationship with the school and the district,” Charlotte said. “We also appreciate the donations and assistance we got from the Boniface, Lindsey, Herrera and Morillo families, as well as the Foundation and Soboba Casino Resort.” Charlotte said the team waited until January to see if pandemic restrictions might be lifted in time to have a summer tournament. She took care of all the contacts with Soboba Casino Resort for those that would be staying at the hotel, as well as others that needed to be notified. The tournament flyer went out in early May. Sandoval said, “The Soboba Braves would also like to thank Ri-
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ost people outside significant metropolis communities think of wrestling as something in high school sports or on the tube. Funny thing is, that’s something the San Jacinto Valley doesn’t have to depend on. Not too long ago, Adam Ginsberg brought his West Coast Wrestling Company extravaganza to The Wheelhouse in Hemet. This happened during the pandemic and there was limited seating. Now he brings it back, this time in the big skating arena where more fans will be accommodated. On Sunday, July 25, starting at 3:30 p.m. “A West Coast Summer” comes to the largest arena in the Valley. Ginsberg promises a bigger and more exciting exhibition of wrestling that is catching attention throughout the country. On the road to their 13th year of first-class wrestling in September, he has gathered a crew of first-class wrestlers. He says, “I am very proud to present a sport-based product that our audience can emotionally invest in.” At their last event in June, they crowned a new champion in Ric Ellis. However, Ginsberg emphatically states that, “he didn’t win fair and square. His opponent, Brandon Gatson seeks revenge and plans to have it on July 25. To find out what happens, be there. It is not a televised event. Why is wrestling so intriguing? It is considered one of the most emotion-packed forms of entertainment. How did it become the industry that it is? Those of us old enough to remember Gorgeous George know that it became a spectacle in the United States because of his antics in the ring more than just wrestling. George, like P. T. Barnum, was a showman. He entered the ring with curly hair, spraying perfume and doing other outlandish things which caused many to forget that he was wrestling. They came in droves and were more interested in his antics than his prowess as a wrestler. There is still the spectacle of en-
tertainment. Wrestling is probably the only activity in the world that is considered a sport and at the same time, a form of showmanship. It has been written and said that wrestling is a form of mass culture entertainment. It is geared toward a sizeable predictable audience. Thousand of fans follow it as religiously as a Sunday afternoon at the ballpark. It exists for the showmanship, but its mass following pushes it as a sport. There are two kinds of wrestling. Amateur and professional. They are as different as night and day. Most amateur wrestling starts in high school as a form of exercise and graduates into what is known as “professional wrestling,” which shows that hordes of fans pay to watch. It can draw a crowd of fans that equal a Las Vegas show. I recently spoke to a retired wrestling promoter. He described the fans as armchair exercisers. I’m not sure I got the connection, but the enthusiasm is the same as at a live event. It encompasses a part of American culture whose attraction has never been explained in so many words, but it is part and parcel of the sports acumen. Sumo wrestling is probably the closest version to a sport, and yet that, too, is as much a part of show business as a Broadway production. It is something that has attracted public interest as far back as the Ancient Egyptians and beyond. It is seen in non-human Great Apes. Cave paintings dating back to the Neolithic age of 7000 B.C. show naked men grappling in the presence of enormous crowds. Is it sport, theater, or spectacle? To those who dig deep, it is a science. When you attend the matches on July 25, perhaps you will have your own ideas about it. Just sayin’ rustystrait@gmail.com DATE: July 25, 2021 TIME: 3:30 p.m. PLACE: The Wheelhouse Skate Arena ADDRESS: 2860 W. Florida Avenue, Hemet CA
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California to vote on Sept. 14 whether to recall Governor Newsom ALEXANDRA ULMER | CONTRIBUTED
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Republican-led drive to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, will go to a special vote on Sept. 14, the lieutenant governor declared on Thursday, shortly after the state's top election official certified the recall petition. The race to oust Newsom 2-1/2 years into his four-year term is shaping up to be chaotic, as several high-profile Republicans - including transgender celebrity Caitlyn Jenner - have said they will run to replace him. Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis said in a statement that a special election would be held on Sept. 14 to determine "whether Gavin Newsom, Governor of the State of California, shall be recalled, and if the majority vote on the question is to recall, to elect a successor."
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SIGN: California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a visit by U.S. First Lady Jill Biden, at The Forty Acres, the first headquarters of the United Farm Workers labor union, in Delano, California, U.S. March 31, 2021. | Mandel Ngan/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo.
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