Olympic Games

'Venus and Serena': Or, My Sister the Champ

Demystifying the Williams sisters

Stars on Ice

Honda Center

Newport Beach Attorney for Lance Armstrong Accuser: 'Confession Brings Day of Vindication'

Chris Manderson, the Newport Beach attorney who represents Tyler Hamilton, the disgraced cyclist and former Lance Armstrong teammate, believes Armstrong's apparent doping confession to Oprah Winfrey "brings a day of vindication" to his client and others who suffered blowback after accusing the seven ... More >>

Frank Turner Wants Us to Continue to Believe In Him

The English folk-rocker of Olympics fame readies a new album that's fresh, tight and heartfelt

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.

Usain "Lightning" Bolt Weed Hits OC Pot Dispensary Shelves

Last week, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt won the 100 meter dash at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, thus reaffirming his title as the world's fastest man. Nicknamed "Lightning" for obvious reasons, Bolt is a pot-friendly celebrity for two reasons: he's from Jamaica, and he's actually admitted ... More >>

Soccer Camp For Refugee Youth Arrives in Anaheim

Anaheim is not only the scene of protests surrounding officer-involved shootings, but in recent years, it has become the site of a mass influx of refugees, mostly from Iraq. California receives the largest number of refugees after Texas, and while it's not clear how many settle in Orange County, a ... More >>

Going for the Gold: Five 2012 Rap Songs To Inspire Our Olympic Team

See Also:*Get It Together: 6 West Coast Posse Cuts For Your 4th of July Cookout *Did MTV Really Snub Waka Flocka Flame's Rapping Rooster?*Big K.R.I.T. Keeps His Beats Homemade and His Rhymes CountrySummer Olympics gather the greatest athletes in the world to perform at the absolute heights of human ... More >>

Great Summer Games

OC Great Park

Cambodian Refugee from Santa Ana Detained Before Cultural Olympic Performance in London

Cambodian spoken word artist and former Santa Ana resident Kosal Khiev, who is scheduled to perform at the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad this week, was detained by British immigration officials overnight after landing at Heathrow Airport on Saturday evening. Khiev was invited to the Poetry Parnassus ... More >>

World's Biggest McDonald's Is Being Built In London For The Olympics

Hey all you athletes in top form headed for the Summer Games in London, you can rest assured. They're building the world's biggest McDonald's there just for you. Yup. The Golden Arches will be there to serve you McNuggets as you compete for the gold. The temporary structure they've made of recyclab ... More >>

Jesse Ruiz, American-Born Former Santa Ana College Wrestler, Qualifies for the 2012 Olympics...for Mexico

​This story's going to get the Know Nothings happy: Jesse Ruiz, an American-born wrestler from SanTana who attended school at Valley High School and Santa Ana College, a former collegiate champion who's currently a volunteer assistant at The Citadel, made the 2012 Olympics...for MexicoRuiz qualifi ... More >>

[UPDATED with Reid Clarifies Coker:] Did Nadadores Swim Club Bury its Head in the Deep End as Underage Sex Claim Surfaced?

​UPDATE, MARCH 26, 5:27 P.M.: Appreciative that someone other than family reads his Orange County Register pieces, staff writer Scott M. Reid just shot over an email clarifying the time line in my original post about his bombshell story on the internationally known Nadadores Swim Club of Mission V ... More >>

Hasan Nouri Still Helps War Orphans in Afghanistan--and He Still Needs Your Help

​Remember the native Afghan and Orange County civil engineer featured in my cover story "Hasan Nouri Pitched Plans to Stabilize Aliso Creek and His Native Afghanistan, But No One Listened"? One thing that has changed since the piece was published in December 2008: Nouri now resides in San Clemente ... More >>

Why Doesn't Mexico Participate in the Olympics

[¡Ask a Mexican!!] And why do some Mexicans hate their dark skin?

'The Flowers of War' Is Enamored With Spectacle

Zhang Yimou turns the Nanjing Massacre into quite a show

Don Peters Banned by USA Gymnastics for Life and Stripped From Hall of Fame

​Don Peters, the 1984 U.S. women's gymnastics Olympic team head coach who recently left his influential Huntington Beach gym and moved out of the area under the cloud of sex-abuse allegations, has been banned from the sport and had his place in the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame revoked.Declared ... More >>

Don Peters, '84 Olympics Female Gymnasts Coach Under Sexual Abuse Cloud, Resigns from His Gym

​Orange County Register reporter Scott M. Reid, who broke the news last month about sexual abuse allegations against  the 1984 Summer Olympics women's gymnastic coach, now scoops the world on Don Peters resigning from his famous Huntington Beach gym and relocating to western Pennsylvania. Pet ... More >>

WINNER'S CIRCLE: Janet Evans

[BEST OF 2011: GAME ON!] Olympic Gold Medal Swimmer

Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Women's Gymnastic Coach Don Peters Sully 1984 Olympics in LA

​The 1984 Summer Olympics was a shining moment for Southern California, while Mary Lou Retton's gold in the all-around in those games shined brightly on all athletics, gymnastics and certainly the U.S. women's team. You'd think nothing could come along 27 years later to tarnish either of those, bu ... More >>

Tyler Hamilton, Cyclist and Lance Armstrong Doping Accuser, Guided by Newport Beach Attorney

Tyler Hamilton​It turns out an Orange County attorney has been along for much of Tyler Hamilton's ride from Lance Armstrong cycling teammate to U.S. Olympic gold medalist to Armstrong-doping accuser on last night's 60 Minutes.Advising Hamilton for years has been Chris Manderson, a partner at Newpo ... More >>

'Wide Angle View' Shows the Personal Is Political

The photojournalists of OCCCA's latest exhibition never stop working

Race Skater

[Hey, You!] Caring father, or overprotective pinche gabacho?

Book Signing with Misty May-Treanor

Barnes and Noble

Eat, Drink and Gawk at Amazon Women in Two Pieces at AVP Huntington Beach Open

AVP NIVEA Tour/Peter Brouillet​This year's AVP Nivea Tour Huntington Beach Open kicks off Friday, and since there's no better way to start the summer than enjoying the sun and sand of Surf City while watching mostly 6-foot-tall women slam leather-bound balls at each other at high velocities, the $ ... More >>

ScrapArtsMusic

Carpenter Center

USA-Canada Gold Medal Hockey Game as Viewed From a Central OC Barstool

​Random notes scribbled onto a soggy napkin from the "Norm stool" at a working-class, Central Orange County watering hole during Sunday's USA-Canada Olympics gold medal hockey game . . .12:22 p.m.: The first shot is a slapper from Canada's Duncan Keith that Team USA goalie Ryan Miller handle ... More >>

Gettin' Made: Winter Olympics Madness!

Here we are, a week into the 2010 Winter Olympics. Keeping track of where we're at in the standings? There's a summary here. Keeping track of cute handmade goodies celebrating the games? We've got you covered there, too! I Heart Skating charm necklace by RJ Charms​ Join us after the jump fo ... More >>

Rep. Ed Royce Nails Olympic Backflip!

Royce: Olympic-size fickleness​Ed Royce, the Orange County congressman who claims blocking consumer financial protections from sneaky Wall Street bankers is actually a pro-consumer stance, has found another topic to fumble. This month at Red County blog, the Fullerton Republican blasted President ... More >>

What You Missed: Haute Dog Howl'oween, Senior Surf Comp, Halos 'n Horns, Rob Zombie, Tiger Army

Keith MayRuh roh.​And just like that, the greatest holiday of the year is alllll over. So what'd you do? We had another action-packed weekend, of course, with our first stop at Long Beach's adorable annual tradition, the Haute Dog Howl'oween Parade and Pet Adoption Fair. Dogs? Way cuter than babie ... More >>

A Taste of Greece

St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church

Pole Dancers Are (Olympic?) Athletes, Too

Kat Attack Collette Kakuk: Gold medal worthy?Here's one to wrap your legs around: Beach volleyball may no longer be the hottest summer Olympic sport to tune into in 2012 if a critical mass of pole dancers manages to convince the Olympic Committee that the athleticism in the activity is gold-medal co ... More >>

OC's Dark Political Lord Wants to Expand Influence Where?

Michael J. Schroeder, one of California's most effectiveRepublican Party operatives, has been telling me for months that he's finally tiring of politics and is eager for a new challenge--something more enjoyable. What's been catching Schroeder's interest? Go ahead and guess.No. Killing liberals ... More >>

To Do This Weekend 1/30-2/1

Film: Leopards of Zanzibar, Friday, 1:30 p.m.On the sunny island of Zanzibar, a place still tied to the past off Africa's eastern coast, young men discover that keeping pace with modern changes can help them reach their goal as they compete in a championship soccer match on the mainland.Bowers Muse ... More >>

Smuckers Stars on Ice

Honda Center

To Do Tonight 10/13

Myspace Music Presents Goldrush featuring: Santogold, Mates of State, Low vs. Diamond, Alice Smith, 8 p.m. Woot woot! $22.50-$25.50 House of Blues 1530 S. Disneyland Dr. Anaheim, CA 714-778-2583 Karaoke Madness, 9 p.m. O the madness! Hogue Barmichael's 3950 Campus Dr. Newport Beach, CA 949-261-627 ... More >>

Rockin' Like a 6.0

NASCAR Pepsi 500

Darkness and Light

Shadow Magic

To Do Tonight 8/11

PAPER PLANES; GREATER CALIFORNIA, 10 p.m. Fly like paper get high like planes. The Prospector 2400 E. Seventh St. Long Beach CA 90804 562-438-3839 U.S. OLYMPICS SPLASH BASH PARTY, 9 p.m. Peep this: the Beijing Olympics onto a big-screen, athlete appearances, a live DJ, food, open pool, interactive ... More >>

[Game On] Gold Metal, Tarnished: French Laugh In the Face of Video Games As Sport

By the Board

Surf Rock

Dragging On

Oscar De La Hoya Signing

Fight Club

Our favorite OC boxer, Ronny Rios, came home this week after a decisive and controversial loss at the Olympic trials in Houston. The potent, artful boxer says he's ready to refocus, turning his sights to his pro career and to finishing out his senior year in high school. "It's time to move on," he s ... More >>

Trial By Ire

Boxer Ronny Rios and his coach say they wuz robbed at last weeks Olympic Trials

Trial by Ire

Boxer Ronny Rios and his coach say they wuz robbed at last week’s Olympic Trials

Ronny

Santa Ana teenager Ronny Rios has fought his way into contention for the U.S. Olympic boxing team. He didnt do it alone

Think for Yourselves, Young Folks, so Long as You Think Like Me

You know what's funny? We ask our young adults to throw themselves into the youth versions of established adult institutions—your governmental bodies, your newspapers, etc.—but when the kids dare express dissent or themselves in a way that rubs the ruling class the wrong way, the adult o ... More >>

Mission Viejo

Faster, Higher, Fuller!

Forget about the Olympics! Chow at Christakis

Cocktails and Dreams

Terri Torzon wins with delish Dona