NCAA Final Four

Newport Harbor High and Corona del Mar have the Battle of the Bay in wrestling. The two rivals will welcome 14 other schools to their "Battle by the Bay" Friday. The two-day tournament begins at CdM at 3 p.m. Saturday's elimination bracket starts at 9 a....

The NCAA women's volleyball Final Four that begins tonight at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. has a local flavor. USC (29-4), including Newport Harbor High product Kirby Burnham, faces Cal (29-5), for which former Newport Harbor standout Jennifer...

No. 1 Jim Righeimer You would be hard-pressed to find anyone in town who had a bigger news year than Costa Mesa City Councilman Jim Righeimer. The former Planning Commission chairman went toe-to-toe with the police union, which smeared his name on...

STANFORD, Calif. — Sophomore Gus Ellis, a Corona del Mar High product, had four kills in eight attempts and was in on two blocks to help Stanford sweep Penn State, 30-25, 30-20, 30-18, in the NCAA men's volleyball title match Saturday night at...

I've often talked about the dirtiest, most filthy city in America. It's not Detroit or New York; it's New Orleans. And now, because of the Final 4 basketball championships coming to town, we are all about cleaning it up.  This happens every few years...

The thought first entered C.J. Woollum's head not long after his name entered the record books. As he stood in a confetti shower on a Tuesday night in late February after becoming the first Division III men's coach in Virginia to win 500 games, it...

College basketball season openers when Division-One Top 25 teams host NAIA opponents are not usually must-attend events. However, Saturday afternoon the eighteenth-ranked Butler Bulldogs hosted Marian University in a game that was a really big deal to...

Former Northern State men's basketball coach Don Meyer will be nationally honored during Final Four weekend in Houston. The now special assistant to the NSU president will receive the Guardians of the Game Pillar Award for Leadership from the National...

March 30 1986 - Duke and Louisville reached the NCAA men's basketball championship with semifinal wins over Kansas and LSU. 1991 - North Carolina is to meet Kansas and Duke is to face UNLV in the NCAA men's basketball Final Four semifinal matchups....

The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament can be a frustrating experience for fans trying to predict the 65-team bracket. With 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 different combinations of results for predicting a perfect bracket (according to mathematicians), it's far...

One of the best things about sports is its unpredictability. Try as we might to prognosticate the outcome of events and tournaments prior to them taking place, the results often surprise us. The NCAA tournament is a perfect example of how three magical...

The fifth-seeded Bulldogs are appearing in the " Sweet 16" for the fourth time in program history, and the third time in the last eight years. Butler, which hasn't lost a game since bowing to UAB (67-57) in non-conference action back on December 22nd, ran...