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It’s tennis time Newport Beach, and the Breakers season is in full swing!  World Team Tennis (WTT) kicked off last week all over the country, and our Newport Beach Breakers are looking good thus far, but unfortunately dropped Wednesday night’s match to the Kansas City...

Recently I’ve been asked a certain question, and to be honest, I don’t really have a definitive answer. Being a sports writer, people ask me all the time, “What actually qualifies something as a sport?” This question is tricky because if you ask 100 sports...

Looking for a new sport to pick up this summer? Try scuba diving – it’ll change your life. Not that I need to say it, but “scuba” is actually an acronym for “self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.”  Certain tanks can let you stay underwater for...

It’s an age old question, one that’s been asked millions of times. There is no right answer, although most people have a strong opinion one way or another. The question will be asked up and down beaches all over Newport this summer. And that question is: Longboard or...

All right Newport, it’s time to get in shape! Summer is coming, meaning bathing suits will be going on, and it’s time to dust off the workout equipment and get moving again.  April and May are usually the months where we all realize we should’ve been working off...

Yes Newport, it’s almost here – summertime! We all know what summer in Newport means, and that’s why I’m here to help.  Consider this my unofficial guide and checklist to prepare you for the summer of 2011 and get you to the beach as hassle-free as possible. ...

Growing up in Orange County, they tried to make me believe that skateboarding is a crime. But with the creation of the Orange County Skateboarding League, which includes 19 schools all over the county, that attitude is largely fading away. And according to the latest rankings,...

With the film festival in town, I was thinking about the best sports movies of the last 30 years.  Movies such as “Raging Bull,” “Caddyshack,” “Brian’s Song,” “The Bad News Bears,” “Slapshot,” and “The Natural” are all terrific movies, but came out before I was born.  This...

Since my run-in with Newport’s own Jered Weaver on Masters Sunday, he’s done something historic and incredible to say the least. On Monday, Weaver became the first pitcher to win his sixth game of the season by April 25 and is one of only five pitchers to win their...

Last Sunday, a friend and I went out in Newport to enjoy the sunset and cap our weekend with a drink.  With the weather warming up and crowds taking up most of the room in our favorite haunts, we decided to head into our “home base,” to put it into sports terms, the...

A lot has been written about the atrocity that happened over the weekend at Dodger Stadium but I feel like something more needs to be said. On Opening Day at Chavez Ravine, a couple of Dodger fans followed three men dressed in Giants gear through the parking lot and severely beat...

Sportswriters and cynical fans all across the country pronounced the Lakers all but dead entering the all-star break after a mystifying loss to the lowly Cleveland Cavaliers, but since then the Lakers have gone 13-1 and look like the two-time defending champions again.  Newport...

If you’ve been living under a rock, have been out of the country, or simply aren’t paying attention to every station on television, let me inform you that the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is under way. In its new format, 68 teams have the chance to take home...

As we head towards spring, not only will the temperature rise, the landscape of high school sports will shift as well. Basketball and soccer are over, and it’s time to welcome in baseball, lacrosse, swimming, track and field, and one of my favorite sports of all-time:...

Sporting Off A few summers ago, my girlfriend at the time convinced me to take a sailing class over at OCC’s School of Sailing & Seamanship on PCH.  She signed up for the class, but since the boats were lidos with two-person crews, she wanted me to join the class so it...