A quick look at the Wild Word of Sport. Not a Typo: To those of us soccer skeptics that still hang on, this bit of news: Tuesday’s Major League Soccer match between […]
Is it The Babe or Shohei?
Soccer shows the flag for USA
You may not have noticed it, but one of the world’s biggest sporting events is creeping up and it doesn’t involve a bat, a helmet or shattering a backboard. The FIFA Women’s […]
Three teams in quarterfinals
Saturday night was a pretty good night for some West Orange County high school basketball teams as three of them won and advanced to the quarterfinals next week of the CIF-SS playoffs. […]
4 advance in girls’ CIF-SS hoops
Four area schools survived the first round of the CIF-SS girls’ basketball playoffs on Thursday and will advance to the second round on Saturday. In boy’s soccer, two schools advanced as well. […]
CIF-SS soccer playoff pairings
Pairings have been announced for CIF-SS championships in boys’ and girls’ soccer and 14 local teams are involved. The sole local squad seeded is the Pacifica High girls’ team, ranked second in […]
Eight area hoop teams ranked
Eight local high school basketball teams are ranked by the CIF-SS in this week’s polls. Among girls’ teams, Edison is ranked 12th in Division 4AA. Orange is sixth in 5A. In Division […]
Russians give Chernobyl back
Perhaps the world’s strangest real estate deal took place on Thursday, when Russian forces relinquished control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to the Ukrainians. An accident there in April 1986 in […]
Playoffs turn into the regionals
The CIF-SS high school playoffs are over, but the all playoffs are not concluded. Now comes the CIF Regionals, a prelude to the CIF State Championships. Several local basketball teams are involved […]
Attacks on Ukraine pressed
A large convoy of Russian military vehicles – said to stretch 40 miles – is reportedly approaching the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv (also known as Kiev) in an effort to add […]
“Feb Frenzy” for hoops, soccer
You could call it “February Frenzy.” This is when Southern California high schools hold the CIF-SS basketball playoff tournaments for boys’ and girls’ teams. School squads from The Tribune’s coverage area of […]
