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SRO Crowd Hails Tom Leykis' One-Year Anniversary at Laugh Factory Long Beach

I knew that the one-year anniversary party for The Tom Leykis Show that happened yesterday at the Laugh Factory Long Beach would be packed, but I still wondered how many people would show. After all, Leykis is online-only now, it was a Monday night, and the NCAA men's basketball championship game wa ... More >>

Doug Gottlieb, OC Boy and Basketball Analyst, Under Fire for Joking He Brings "White Man's Perspective" to CBS Sweet 16 Coverage

Man, I still remember as a wabby high-schooler reading about the accomplishments of Tustin High basketball star Doug Gottlieb during the 1990s. And, sure: while having a pretty good career at Oklahoma State didn't translate into NBA stardom, Gottlieb has nevertheless made a name for himself as a pre ... More >>

12 Richard Nixon Pro Football Moments as Ol' No. 12's Boosters Hawk Kurt Warner Pigskins

Richard Nixon rode the pine for the junior varsity team at Fullerton Union High School and the second team for Whittier College in the early 1930s. The photo of No. 12 at right is identified online as being from Whittier College, but there is another shot of him in a better No. 23 uniform that is al ... More >>

11 Richard Nixon College Football Moments

The previous post revealed some of Richard Nixon's ties to professional football. Even though Ronald Reagan has forever been associated with college football because of his sportcasting and Gipper role in 1940's Knute Rockne All American, you can make the case that Trickie Dick was even more closely ... More >>

UC Irvine Men's Volleyball Starts the Season in a Rare Place: No. 1 in the Country

When UC Irvine men's volleyball team was ranked No. 1 nationally in a preseason coaches poll, the campus sports information office noted that honor in a preseason poll was a first for the team, which was ranked second in the country each of the past three years.That's quite an achievement--well ... More >>

[UPDATED with Disney Nixing Future Gigs:] Suzy Favor Hamilton: 3-Time Olympic Runner, Disneyland Marathoner and "Full GFE" Escort

See the update at the end of this post on Disney canceling a 2013 Suzy Favor Hamilton appearance in Anaheim.ORIGINAL POST, DEC. 20, 1:08 P.M.: Suzy Favor Hamilton, a three-time U.S. Olympic runner who appeared in a Nike commercial, reportedly spent the last year doubling as a $600-an-hour escort for ... More >>

Karch Kiraly, San Clemente Volleyball Legend, Named Head Coach of U.S. Women's Team

At an Anaheim press conference today, San Clemente's Karch Kiraly was named the new coach of the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team.As an assistant coach, 51-year-old Kiraly just helped the squad win its second consecutive gold medal at the London Olympics.

Sharon Quirk-Silva Hopes Chris Norby's Title IX Comments Will Lose Him Assembly Race Votes

Fullerton Mayor Sharon Quirk-Silva is hoping to use Assemblyman Chris Norby's recent remarks about Title IX, the 1972 federal law mandating gender equality in college and high school sports, to help swap a woman for a man in the state's lower legislative house.That woman would be Quirk-Silva, the D ... More >>

Gustavo Named One of Orange County's Most Interesting People--by the Orange County Register?!

​The petty wars between the Orange County Register and us Weeklings are legendary. Right now, my big thing is to go on stories that we broke but that the Reg steals from us without attribution and provide a link to our original story--how adult of me.But every once in a while, OC's daily can commi ... More >>

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 >>

3hree Things: Moonlight Graham

Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, in which Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.courtesy of Moonlight GrahamGentlemen* of Orange County, 2200 square feet of absolute awesomeness ... More >>

[UPDATED: Sports Info Director's Comments] Chapman No Longer on the Outside Looking In: Joins the SCIAC for Athletic Competition

The Chapman Panthers logo was redesigned a few years ago.UPDATE, JUNE 8, 1:49 P.M.: "This is the biggest news out of our athletic department in 20 years," said Doug Aiken, Chapman's Sports Information Director. "This was a longtime goal, ever since we moved to Div. III in '94."Though the application ... More >>

Reza Abedi's Greatest Escape

A local high-school-wrestling coach gave up his Olympic dreams to flee Khomeini's Iran

[UPDATED with Bio:] Kyle Kvasnicka Resigns as Concordia Women's Volleyball Coach After Arrest for Allegedly Trying to Lure Child for Sex

​UPDATE, APRIL 14, 1 P.M.: Concordia University has already removed its online bio of Kyle Kvasnicka, who resigned as head coach of the Irvine private school's women's volleyball team following his arrest on suspicion of Internet Luring of a Child in Colorado.But a cached version of the bio via Go ... More >>

Where Can Out-of-Towners Get Drunk for This Weekend's NCAA Men's Basketball Western Regional Championship?

​From Andrea and Chasen:So we should do something and tell all the people visiting Anaheim for our part of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament where to go eat and get drunk that's not too far away.Rest of the Weeklings, who don't follow sports save for Ted, Matt, and I: (Silence).Me: But the Hond ... More >>

Final Pho Round 2: Pho Dakao vs. Pho Nguyen Hue

Just like the marquee says!​​Here we go, folks: Round 2 of our epic Final Pho tournament, where Dave, Edwin, Shuji, and Gustavo each picked four pho restaurants in a 16-team fight to determine who is the pho king of Little Saigon--and therefore, the United States. Now comes the brutal matches, a ... More >>

Bobby Joyce, OC Prep Hoops Legend and Former UNLV Runnin' Rebel, Arrested for Robbing Disabled Vietnam War Vet

Santa Ana Police DepartmentJoyce​The news sickening everyone in Southern California that isn't the coming radiation plume is the robbery by two men of disabled Vietnam vet Michael Neil Shaurette as he waited in a Santa Ana bus stop in his wheelchair. It's a heinous crime, and the men who committed ... More >>

Announcing OC Weekly's First-Ever Final Pho!

Dave Lieberman​If you are a sports fan, you are looking forward to the coming NCAA Division I basketball tournament, famously known as March Madness and the Final Four. If you are a fan of Vietnamese food, you love pho, the legendary beef (sometimes chicken, sometimes turkey, sometimes fish, somet ... More >>

Another Reason to Hate Taco Bell: Their Touchdown $5 Buck Box and Partnership with the Bowl Championship Series

​During the 1990s, Taco Bell pulled off a legendary April Fools' joke when they took out full-page ads in newspapers announcing they had bought the Liberty Bell. That was a bit of marketing genius, but their partnership with the mafia known as the Bowl Championship Series shows again why there's l ... More >>

UC Irvine Soccer Wuz Robbed

​The UC Irvine men's soccer team finished 14-3-3, won the Big West Conference regular-season title, were ranked No. 1 in the West Regional rankings most of the season and were in the national top 10 for the final six weeks of the regular season.So, how were the Anteaters rewarded? With another ... More >>

Quadrine Hill, Former U of Miami Fullback, Trades Cleats for Boxing Gloves Tonight

​Quadrine Hill, who is among the latest former football players to hang up his cleats and pick up boxing gloves, fights tonight in Irvine.The former University of Miami fullback and son of Los Angeles Rams (1979-80) and Miami Dolphins (1981-84) running back Eddie Hill, faces another heavyweight, R ... More >>

Matt Leinart and Colt Brennan, Among Mater Dei's Best QBs, Cut by NFL Teams on Same Day

Inside the athletic complex at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana is an exhibit that pays tribute to quarterbacks John Huarte, who went on to win the Heisman Trophy in 1964 for Notre Dame, Matt Leinart, who won the 2004 Heisman as a junior at USC, and Colt Brennan, a 2007 Heisman finalist for Hawaii ... More >>

Mater Dei Alum Matt Leinart On the Outs in Arizona and Running Out of Options

​Quarterback Matt Leinart, who starred at Mater Dei High School of Santa Ana and USC before the Arizona Cardinals drafted the former Costa Mesa resident with the 10th overall pick in the 2006 NFL Draft, could soon be looking for work . . . . . . possibly in another league.

[UPDATED:] Josh Booty Settles Suit Against County Over Tasering by Sheriff's Deputies

​Former NFL quarterback and sports broadcaster Josh Booty claimed that when he was in the Orange County Jail after a February 2008 DUI arrest, he was beaten, tasered and ridiculed with comments like "big pussy motherfucker" and "the price is wrong, bitch"--a reference to his ex-wife, a former The ... More >>

Laguna Beach Native Booted From Washington Redskins

Colt Brennan​Colt Brennan, who earned the NCAA record for throwing the most touchdown passes in a single season (58) while a quarterback at the University of Hawaii, was released today the Washington Redskins."I was totally surprised," Brennan told the Washington Post.Pro football, so far, hasn't ... More >>

Pete Carroll Employs IAITB Defense in TV Interview Promoting Surf City Book Signing

​While others might shy away from the controversy that may have driven them out of town, Pete Carroll, former coach of the multi-sanctioned USC football team, showed this morning why he will Win Forever. That's the title of his new book, which he promoted on the KTLA Morning News in advance of ton ... More >>

'The Blind Side' Asks: What Would Black People Do Without Bighearted White People?

UCI Anteaters Can't Eat Selves Out of Four-Run Hole

OC Weekly intern David Nicolas reporting . . . UC Irvine's baseball team was enjoying a dream season. They even got to host the NCAA regional tournament leading up to the College World Series in Omaha. What could possibly go wrong?Three words: this past weekend. And three more: University of Virgini ... More >>

Zots from the UCI Baseball 'Eaters' Defeat of Fresno State Last Night

*Written by Weekly intern and UCI New University student paper managing editor David Nicolas...The UC Irvine Anteaters baseball team put down the Fresno Bulldogs in the first game of the Irvine NCAA regional playoff series, edging the 'Dogs 4-2. UCI's starting pitcher Daniel Bibona quieted Fresno's ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were de ... More >>

L.A. Weekly's Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dr ... More >>

Cal State Fullerton To Bring Football Back?

Late last week, Cal State Fullerton issued a survey to gauge student interest in the school reinstating its laughable football squad, which disbanded in 1992 to a massive yawn from Orange County. Even more hilarious is the website, Bring Back Titan Football, which really believes interest in the spo ... More >>

Zot Wot?

UCI Men's Volleyball

The Reg-O-Meter©: Week Ending March 22

Journey to an OC Tourney

As of today, it’s only 85 days until college basketball starts…not that anyone is counting, ahem. But in case you are, rejoice! The inaugural Anaheim Classic college basketball tournament is set for November 22, 23, and 25 of this year. Twelve games of bracketed, idiosyncratic collegiate ball w ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!

Whats the deal with men in masks in Mexico?

Mcknight Errant

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

This Week in Irish Musical Merriment

Grada

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Diary of a Mad County

The Year In College Football

USCs Stars Vs. UCLAs Bars

Channeling Social D

Before there was Mike Ness, there was Tom Corvin, now a TV guy

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Cex

The weird-ass life of the white Eminem

Basketballs Missionary to Mexico

The Shows Go On

While You Were Freaking

Hey, Big Spender!

Give It the Old College Guide*

The finer (and lesser) points of local institutions