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Changing Of The Guard

HAIL PELICUS!   Changing Of The Guard   With the USA National Championship Western Regionals at Treasure Island on May 30th and 31st (more on that below) , Northern California had the chance to show at least the western half of the country why Pelicanland is considered the hotbed...

Pelicus Laureate

HAIL PELICUS!   Pelicus Laureate   (with apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer)   The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Eagle seven that day: History had shown for the Cup they wouldn’t play. But when France died first and Portugal did the same, A hushed silence fell for the South Africa game.   A straggling few got...

Pastiche

HAIL PELICUS!   Pastiche   We here on the editorial staff are always looking for ways to improve ourselves and our readers, especially in the areas or arts, literature and vocabulary. Little known fact: Hail Pelicus’ motto is “An ‘SAT word’ is a word you were expected to know...

Legacy

HAIL PELICUS!   Legacy   Legacies can be defined in many ways. One of the ways Webster defines it is “anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor: the legacy of ancient Rome.”   Sporting institutions most certainly have legacies - see California, University of, Rugby...