A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging a Huntington Beach youth soccer coach with child exploitation offenses, including the possession, distribution and production of child

OCVarsity’s Michael Huntley takes a hard look at what worked, what didn’t and who earned a helmet sticker for being a top performer or leader last week.

Los Alamitos picked up where it left off last season by scoring a ton of points in a 65-18 win over Bakersfield Friday at High. Oklahoma commit Malachi Nelson threw four touchdown passes for the Griffins including an 80-yarder to Alec Wills.

IRVINE — Ontario Christian opened the 2021 fall football season with a 14-7 nonleague win over Crean Lutheran on Thursday at Portola High. Going back to their 2019 season, the Knights have won 11 of their past 12 games including a 4-0 finish in the 2021 spring season.

As we’ve already mentioned, there was so much response to our request last week for readers’ ideas to fix baseball that one column couldn’t hold it all. Neither could two. So we’re back again today with the final installment.

The idea of an automated strike zone becomes more plausible with every outrageously bad call, and I think we’re getting toward a consensus that umpires just can’t keep up with 21st century pitching. The numbers show it,

A breakdown of the best games on the regular-season schedule, starting with Foothill-Cypress in Week 0 and ending with Orange-Santa Ana in Week 10.

The reigning league champion Cougars, ranked No. 21 in the O.C. preseason poll, will surround first-year quarterback Trey Kukuk with one of the best group of receivers in the county. If the defense does its part,

Pro surfing will be back at Lower Trestles for the first time in years for the first-ever, one-day battle at the beach for a world title.

Dan Albano’s annual list of the top impact players to watch is topped by Servite senior Tetairoa ‘TMac’ McMillan.