Subject: College Football

• Knee 'em, Gamecocks!

  The New York Times reports that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is going mining for new fines by trolling broadcasts of live sporting events and other spectacles where coaches, fans, players and performers may have uttered forbidden expletives picked up by microphones. This, of course, will likely bankrupt the participating schools in last season's classic gridiron battle that pitted Awfuckit State against the University of Calico Cocksuckers.

  July 13, 2006

• OC's Eternal Loser

  High school football season is upon us, and there is no better time to remind prep stars about the textbook that is Todd Marinovich. The former Mater Dei and Capistrano Valley quarterback still owns the record for the most career passing yards in Orange County history, a feat more astounding considering it's the longest standing major record in OC prep football. USC signed him in the early 1990s, and Marinovich promptly won a Rose Bowl as a freshman. But the phenom fanned out in the NFL, due lar

  August 30, 2007

• QWM (Quarterbacking While Mexican): USC Edition

  By law, I'm not allowed to say anything nice about the University of Southern California--I'm a UCLA grad (fire Dorrell!), and many of the lords of Orange County (from Theo Lacy to John Wayne to Mike Schroeder) attended Troy. But I always liked current Trojans quarterback Mark Sanchez, not just because he's an OC guy, but mostly because he and his Mission Viejo High Diablos took the local prep spotlight away from the pedophile protectors at Mater Dei and Santa Margarita High for a couple of year

  October 23, 2007

• John Wayne vs. Mark Sanchez

  University of Southern California quarterback and Mission Viejo High product Mark Sanchez may be OC Weekly's coverboy today, but USC Public Relations is right now propping up another Trojan football player with ties to Orange County. This former Trojan player never scored a touchdown, seeing as how he played tackle ... in the 1920s. He is, of course, John Wayne, American icon, greatest cowboy movie star ever (pardner!) and a longtime resident of Newport Beach, so beloved around here that Newp

  August 21, 2008

• Hugh Hewitt Gets Tracked by Southern Poverty Law Center

  It's one thing for Orange County blabbermouth Hugh "Baby Hewie/Hughcifer" Hewitt to get monitored by myself and Clockwork Coker, but it's quite the feat that Baby Hewie made it into the pages of the Southern Poverty Law Center's fall issue of its award-winning Intelligence Report. In its round-up of racist, fucked-up quotes by media personalities (including Barbara Coe!), Baby Hewie notches a spot with this doozy: "[I]t's probably the last football game we'll ever get to see before the United S

  September 11, 2008

• Where to Watch USC Destroy Notre Dame

  October 23, 2003

• Penn State More Psyched Than USC By Disneyland Visit

  One perk for Penn State University players, coaches and fans who have already arrived in Southern California for the New Year's Day Rose Bowl is the traditional Disneyland visit, which is Friday. After all, who wouldn't want to escape the weather in University Park, PA (current temperature: 23 degrees) for the always sunny Magic Kingdom (Friday's forecast: 58 degrees, partly cloudy--in other words, blizzard conditions to Orange Countians)?Indeed, as the 95th Rose Bowl will pit the BCS-ranked No.

  December 23, 2008

• A UCLA Bruin Plea for USC's Mark Sanchez to Stay in School

  Dear Mark Sanchez:As a proud UCLA Bruin, I know I'm not to say this, but congrats on an amazing Rose Bowl. Your passes ripped through the Penn State defense like your ethnic cousins continue to do across the United States-Mexico border. Which leads me to the point of this post:Stay in school for Mexicans.It's now a cottage industry for pundits to remark about your mexicanidad and the weight that comes with it--the Los Angeles Times did something on the matter earlier this week, and I yapped abou

  January 2, 2009

• Why Do People Have a Problem With OC-Raised USC QB Mark Sanchez Being Proud of His Mexican Heritage?

  August 21, 2008

• The Weekly's Head Count of the 48 New Faces Who Want to Be Your Next Sheriff

  May 15, 2008

• Diary of a Mad County

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  December 7, 2006

• Super Bawl

  June 2, 2005

• The Year In College Football

  December 30, 2004

• Diary of A Mad County

  December 16, 2004

• IMAXed Out

  August 16, 2001

• Give It the Old College Guide*

  September 10, 1998

• From "Acknowledged Leader" to Convicted Felon for Reed Diehl

  Reed Diehl, during better days at Cal.UPDATED WITH THE TWO CENTS OF THE FBI...With the guilty plea in a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme entered by Reed Diehl, the standout Mater Dei High School center who went on to an impressive college football career at the University of California and a brief stint with the Tennessee Titans, it's interesting to look back at some of what was written years ago about the Coto de Caza man now facing up to 70 years in prison. (See refinement of this by the FBI

  July 14, 2009

• Will Pete Carroll and Matt Barkley Prove Critics Wrong?

  USC starting quarterback Matt Barkley hopes to flash the victory sign a lot in the years ahead. Pete Carroll's stunning announcement that the pride of Mater Dei High Matt Barkley will become the first freshman to enter the season as the starting quarterback for Southern Cal's living legend coach has turned the college football world on its head.   Not that the kid ain't talented.

  August 28, 2009

• Sex, Crimes and Videotape

  Wikipedia Commons​Imagine being 16-year-old Jane Doe from the "Haidl Three" gang-rape case. First, you discover three guys knocked you out with gin, sprawled your unconscious body on a pool table and garage sofa and then shoved a Snapple bottle, a lit cigarette, an apple-juice can, a pool stick and their body parts into your ass and vagina, all the while shooting video of the dirty deeds.Then, after the first trial against the defendants ends in mistrial, you actually see the sick DVD they mad

  September 25, 2009