Mater Dei High School

[UPDATED with the Defense Table View:] Nik Richie, The Dirty Website Chief Accused of Defaming NFL Cheerleader, Awaits New Trial

See Update No. 2 on page 2 on Nik Richie Radio coverage of the host's surreal feelings and reception as a Middle Eastern terrorist in Kentuck and his lawyer vowing to win in the end.See Update No. 1 after the jump explaining why the federal judge declared a mistrial.ORIGINAL POST, JAN. 24, 1:53 P.M. ... More >>

[UPDATED with Mark Sanchez Back In:] Matt Leinart May Be the Only NFL Quarterback Out of Orange County (or USC) Starting Sunday

See the update at the end of this post explaining why Mark Sanchez will now start for the Jets.ORIGINAL POST, DEC. 26, 4:26 P.M.: Who would have seen this coming when the NFL season began? Heading into week 17--the final week of the regular season--the only quarterback out of USC with a chance of st ... More >>

Carlos Bustamante: The Great Brown Flop

Disgraced Santa Ana councilman is the latest OC GOP Latino golden boy gone pendejo

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 >>

[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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

[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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Tod Brown's Own Private Idaho

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

?Quien Es Mas Mafia?

How the bishop and the sheriff stack up against the Godfather

Jane C.R. Doe Speaks

An Exclusive Interview with Jeff Andrade’s victim

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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?

Full-Court Mess

Admitted Mater Dei molester raising money for high schoolers

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.'

McKnight Moves

Lawsuit reveals tampering charges against famed basketball coach

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.'

Mcknight Errant

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

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 >>

The Devil Plays for Mater Dei

Mater Dei High is a haven for cover-ups (see our Ex Cathedra archives), but none are lamer than the one attempted by head football coach Bruce Rollinson in today's typical OC Register Mater Dei blowjob. Register sports writer Carlos Arias (who is a great boxing writer--too bad nobody sees the sport ... More >>

Letters

'They tried to portray Ashley as some weird loner who somehow deserved to get shot. The two policemen who fired 18 bullets at this teenager need to be brought to justice'

King of the County Pedophiles

The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos

King of the County Pedophiles

The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos

OC's 31 Scariest People

Now 25 percent more terrifying!

Facts and Feces

Rewrite history with the Register! Its fun!

Boy-Buggering Bingo!

10 unlikely winners and losers in the Orange Diocese sodomy sweepstakes

Sexual Reeling

How the Register blew the Orange Diocese sex-abuse story

Letters

The Army of God

How a monk, an altar boy, and a sex-abuse victim joined forces to battle their common enemy: the Catholic Church

Diary of a Mad County

Diary of a Mad County

Ask Coach McKnight

31 Scariest People in OC