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Mater Dei High School

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Bernie Fine Syracuse Orange Scandal's Orange County Connection: Mike Hopkins

    ​There is an Orange County connection to the controversy swirling around the Syracuse Orangemen's basketball program.His name is Mike Hopkins.Amid growing calls for the head of Jim Boeheim, the head coach who just received a vote of confidence from his chancellor today, many believe it's time for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    [UPDATED with Gun Was Her Gift to Him:] Uyennie Ton, OC Homicide No. 44: Fiancé Philip Ngoc Nguyen Accused of Shooting Her in Head

    ​UPDATE, OCT. 10, 3:47 P.M.: The gun Philip Ngoc Nguyen used to kill his fiancée Uyennie Ton had been her gift to him, according to a prosecutor.Meanwhile, the Orange County District Attorney's office has corrected its original account, stating that Ton did not live in the Fountain Valley trailer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2011

    Former College Football Star, NFL Dud and Car Accident Victim, Colt Brennan, Signs Contract to Play in the UFL

    Brennan is getting a second chance at pro football.​A little more than six months ago, Colt Brennan was lying in a hospital bed in Hawaii, listed in serious condition. Today it was announced that Brennan will be returning to football, having signed a contract with the Hartford Colonials of the Uni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Sons of New L.A. Lakers Coach, Mike Brown, Considering Mater Dei High

    Mike Brown, the new king of the Lakers castle.​Last week, Lakers fans learned that the legendary shoes of its retiring coach, Phil Jackson, were to be filled by a mostly-unproven coach who's best known for being LeBron James' first NBA coach. The news of Mike Brown's hiring caused mixed reactions, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Colt Brennan, Former Mater Dei QB, In Car Accident And In 'Serious Condition'

    The record-setting QB is in a Hawaii hospital in serious condition.Update, November 22, 11:03 a.m.: Terry Brennan indicated to reporters that his son, Colt, is "heavily sedated" and is "far from being alert." Colt is able to acknowledge that family and doctors are in the room, through hand signals, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    The Orange County Interwebs Horror Show II

    ​Welcome back to the next installment of our weekly feature that searches the darkest, scariest and orangiest corners of the Interwebs to find out what outsiders and insiders have to say about and from Orange County. Where Am I? So overblown by the talent of Disney Channel songstress Selena Go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    Jose Alonso Najera Jr. Gets Life Sentence for Murdering Parents Over Y2K Savings

    ​Jose Alonso Najera, Jr., the 29-year-old Garden Grove man convicted June 1 of murdering his parents in a plot to steal money they pulled out of the bank before Y2K, was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole.He thus becomes the second man sentenced to life for the s ... More >>

  • News

    July 15, 2010

    Tod Brown's Own Private Idaho

    The Orange bishop's track record of covering up for sexual misconduct by priests didn't start here

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    ESPN Ignores Mater Dei Hoops Coach Gary McKnight's Rapist-Coddling Past

    Photo by Jennie WarrenThe only OC creep who gets a bigger pass than McKnight is Bishop Brown...​SO....Mater Dei High School boys' basketball coach Gary McKnight set another prep hoops record--he's now the winningest coach in California high school B-ball history--and the local press busted another ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    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. B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    KOCE Diocese of Orange Docu Blind To Reality

    One of my favorite channels is KOCE-TV Channel 50's OC Channel, available only on digital antennas (and have you changed your analog TV yet to satisfy the NWO?). It airs nothing but Orange County-related material--not just reruns of KOCE's Real Orange and Inside OC with Rick Reiff, but also weird in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 10, 2008

    Baboso Busty Bursts Bubbles of Boho Beaners!

    *Updated, with new info after the jump... Carlos Bustamante was supposed to be the Golden Boy, the Mexican who could deliver Latinos to the Republican Party in Orange County. He won a SanTana City Council seat in 2004 by defeating a Papi Pulido-backed candidate in the one OC city where Democrats ru ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2008

    To the Anonymous, Mater Dei-Loving Faxing Coward

    **UPDATE: This is now the most-commented post in Navel Gazing history. Keep up the wackiness, readers! Over the years I've covered the Catholic Diocese of Orange sex-abuse scandal, I've found few people braver than Joelle Casteix. She's one of Orange County's most prominent sex-abuse survivors (a c ... More >>

  • News

    November 29, 2007

    ?Quien Es Mas Mafia?

    How the bishop and the sheriff stack up against the Godfather

  • News

    October 11, 2007

    Jane C.R. Doe Speaks

    An Exclusive Interview with Jeff Andrade’s victim

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2007

    A Critique of a Critique Criticizing My Bishop Brown Critique

    Google is great, really: a couple of random searches, and voila! You have a media critique. At least that's how Dave Pierre, author of The Media Report and a contributor to NewsBusters, operates with my recent LA Times opinion piece bashing Catholic Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown. Under the h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2007

    Statement by John Manly on Settlement Against Orange Diocese

    Here's John Manly, the Newport Beach lawyer who represented four sex-abuse victims of employees with the Orange diocese, on the $6.885 million settlement announced this afternoon: Today, Bishop Tod Brown and the Diocese of Orange agreed, at the point of a legal gun and on the eve of trial, to settl ... More >>

  • Features

    September 27, 2007

    Bad Moves

    The bishop broke his covenant. The former chancellor broke down. But the truth about the Diocese of Orange's sex-abuse scandal is emerging in court anyway

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2007

    Statutory Rapist Andrade And Pals Seek to Block Many Things

    A slew of in limine motions filed this past week by former Mater Dei High School boys' basketball coach/admitted statutory rapist Jeff Andrade and his former employers, the Catholic Diocese of Orange. Andrade's lawyers moved that any potential jury not hear "in any manner, either directly or indirec ... More >>

  • News

    August 9, 2007

    McKnight Shifts

    Who’s Telling the Truth in Mater Dei’s Latest Sex-Abuse Trial: Its President, the School’s Legendary Basketball Coach, or the OC Weekly?

  • News

    June 28, 2007

    Full-Court Mess

    Admitted Mater Dei molester raising money for high schoolers

  • Columns

    February 15, 2007

    Letters

    'Bosomy? Not only is that irrelevant, it sails dangerously close to the ingrained misogyny of tabloid coveragesomething I would have thought your paper would want to avoid.'

  • Columns

    January 11, 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.'

  • News

    December 21, 2006

    Mcknight Errant

    Famed Mater Dei basketball coach helped pedophile get a jobat Mater Dei

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2006

    Gunning for an Indie Spirit Award

    Newport Beach filmmaker Aric Avelino's American Gun was announced today as an Independent Spirit Award best picture nominee. Half Nelson, The Dead Girl, Pan's Labyrinth and Little Miss Sunshine round out the premiere category for the 2007 Film Independent's Spirit Awards ceremony that will air live ... More >>

  • News

    December 15, 2005

    King of the County Pedophiles

    The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos

  • News

    December 15, 2005

    King of the County Pedophiles

    The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos

  • Features

    October 27, 2005

    OC's 31 Scariest People

    Now 25 percent more terrifying!

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Facts and Feces

    Rewrite history with the Register! Its fun!

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    Boy-Buggering Bingo!

    10 unlikely winners and losers in the Orange Diocese sodomy sweepstakes

  • Columns

    April 8, 2004

    Diary of a Mad County

    Diary of a Mad County

  • Columns

    January 16, 2003

    Ask Coach McKnight

    Diary of a Mad County

  • Features

    November 2, 2000

    31 Scariest People in OC

    Diary of a Mad County

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