Subject: High School Athletics

• Totally Stokked

  Beautiful Orange County high school student athlete gets inappropriate attention from voyeuristic losers all over the Internet. Beautiful Orange County high school student athlete's father is understandably upset about it. Beautiful Orange County high school student athlete's father makes his living defending Irvine cops who ejaculate on women during traffic stops. Where to start? Al Stokke's daughter, Allison, 18, is an extraordinary athlete, to say the least. She won a California stat

  June 5, 2007

• 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

• Breaking: Orange Diocese Settles Andrade Case

  Scroll down for updates as they come... Just received word that the Catholic Diocese of Orange just settled a civil suit filed against it and former Mater Dei High School boys' basketball coach Jeff Andrade. Strange, considering diocesan lawyers were publicly proclaiming they were raring to start the trial. And isn't it convenient that they announce it on a Friday afternoon, just as the weekend starts and reporters are busy planning how to lose the weekend in a glass of Jack Daniels? Details as

  October 5, 2007

• Mater Dei Writes A Lot, Says Nothing

  Today, officials at Mater Dei High School sent out a two-page memo to alumni regarding the recent settlement involving the Catholic Diocese of Orange and four young women who claim they were abused by diocesan lay employees during the 1990s. Two of the perpetrators-- Jeff Andrade and Larry Stukenholtz--worked as assistant boys' basketball coach and choir director at the school, respectively. Both of them admitted to their guilt--Andrade in a sworn deposition, Stukenholtz as part of Mater Dei's i

  October 8, 2007

• Bishop Brown Too Nice for Once!

  On Oct. 9, Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown issued a letter to the county's Catholics explaining his recent $6.685 million settlement with four sex-abuse victims of diocesan lay employees. He talked about apologizing to two of the victims (read a different account here), about how sex abuse is wrong, and all that jazz. Then His Excellency said the strangest thing about Mater Dei High School, where two of the settled cases occurred:

  October 12, 2007

• Haunted OC Hotspots

  In honor of Halloween the OC Weekly has compiled a list of haunted Orange County locations courtesy the database of haunted places on Shadowlands.net. So take some time and have a read. Even if you don't believe in ghosts, at least you can learn about some local legends and scare yourself silly! Mwahahaha! Anaheim Anaheim Fairfield Inn by the Marriott - This motel is right next to a freeway and is said to be haunted by a couple that died in a car accident. Anaheim High School - A WWII bomb

  October 29, 2007

• An Open Letter to Mater Dei Quarterback Matt Barkley

  Dear Matt, Congrats on all your success: Gatorade High School Football, Player of the Year (first junior so honored ever), the early commitment to USC, the many prep titles—oops, scratch that last one! And we loved the profile that the New York Times did on you yesterday. We especially were excited about your commitment to Jesus Christ, “Jesus Christ is No. 1 to me,” you told the Times. “That’s who I play for.” Heaven knows this world needs more upstanding young athletes like you.

  February 12, 2008

• The Deification of Gary McKnight Must Stop

  Both the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register have tripped over themselves this month in the attempt to give the swooning-est review of Mater Dei High's current varsity basketball squad and its head coach, Gary McKnight. The Times says McKnight "is used to ridiculous riches,"while Reg columnist Mark Whicker contributed another Valentine, noting the largest Catholic school west of Chicago were "pioneers in making high school basketball a nationally played sport, for good or ill."Probl

  December 17, 2008

• The Devolution of a Mater Dei Apologist

  Until we upgrade our blog, many of ustedes might not know about the many fights raging on blog posts of the past--the old posts that seem to get the most attention include those on local Armenian genocide denier Ergun Kirlikovali, Laotian Secret Army general Vang Pao, and my review of Lola Gaspar. But the funniest such fight by far has to do with Mater Dei High grad Nick Manning.Two weeks ago, I wrote a post urging Servite High students to drop the racist chants during boys' basketball games aga

  February 9, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 9: Weekend and Monday Edition

  Orange County Register: 700 lbs. tires were flipped, hunks of steel were moved and a U-Haul truck was upended at Main Beach in Huntington Beach on Saturday. No, it was not another joy-riding HBPD cop. It was Southern California's Strongest Man competition. . . . Mexican immigrants are returning home because of the shitty economy. Look for the CCIR to get into the foreclosure/failing bank/insurance giant collapse/disappearing financial services firms/Ponzi scheme industry. . . . Mater Dei Hi

  March 9, 2009

• Jane C.R. Doe Speaks

  October 11, 2007

• Full-Court Mess

  June 28, 2007

• McKnight Out

  February 22, 2007

• McKnight Moves

  February 1, 2007

• McKnight Fall

  January 25, 2007

• Letters

  'Genius? That wouldnt be for me to decide. Reaching thousands of people from a dark little garage in Costa Mesa, that certainly takes talent.'

  January 11, 2007

• Mcknight Errant

  December 21, 2006

• Young Men With Balls

  June 1, 2006

• Hardwood Babylon

  April 27, 2006

• The Year In College Football

  December 30, 2004

• Letters

  August 26, 2004

• Kid Jocks

  September 18, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 17, 2003

• Ask Coach McKnight

  January 16, 2003

• Slam-Dunk Soliloquies

  September 13, 2001

• Memorial Service Set for Popular Girls Basketball Coach

  Orange Lutheran girls basketball coach Tony Matson, who collapsed at his construction job in Corona and died Friday morning in a nearby hospital, will be remembered during a memorial service Monday at Rose Drive Friends Church in Yorba Linda. The time has yet to be announced, but the service is open to the public. Two memorial funds have been established in Matson's name to help his wife Heidi and their three children, according to Matson's pastor Jim LeShana. Donations can be sent to: T

  April 28, 2009

• On Minority Prep Athletes Messing with their Racist High School Counterparts

  OC Weekly contributor and my occasional KPFK-FM 90.7 producer Gabriel San Roman wrote a great recollection on his personal blog about his days as a varsity basketball player for Savanna High School in Anaheim during the late 1990s. The ostensible reason for the post was a response to arrogant lefties who decry sports as the opiate of the masses; San Roman pointed out that playing prep hoops proved crucial to his political formation."There was never a separation nor was there a sense that basketb

  June 17, 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

• UPDATED: ACLU Announces Settlement of Suit Tied to Corona del Mar High's Production of "Rent"

  Photo by Matt Coker Karyl Ketchum and Mike Wiggins talk about the hell their 17-year-old daughter Hail endured at Corona del Mar High School last school year.​Three varsity football players at Corona del Mar High School posted a video on the school's Facebook page in January in which they describe how and where they would rape now 17-year-old Hail Ketchum-Wiggins before disclosing the manner in which they would shoot her to death. The video also includes homophobic remarks directed at another

  September 9, 2009