Mater Dei locker room ritual left bloodied football player with brain injury,...
Breaking: Mater Dei president asks for trust after report of hazing that left football player with brain injury “Where’s your watch?” The shout from a Mater Dei High School football player alerted his...
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Mater Dei High School’s president asked parents and students for their “faith and trust” Wednesday, Nov. 24, amid growing calls for the dismissal of Monarchs head football coach Bruce Rollinson...
View ArticleFormer players show support for Mater Dei, Rollinson after report of hazing...
Mater Dei High School head coach Bruce Rollinson stood near a statue of the Virgin Mary in the school’s grotto, a short walk from the football field Thursday morning. Four Monarchs players had just led...
View ArticleCIF will not investigate the Mater Dei hazing case
High school athletics in Southern California are governed by the book. As in the Blue Book, the CIF Southern Section’s 260-page handbook that details the region’s high school sports’ governing body’s...
View ArticleAlleged ‘hazing’ at Mater Dei does not meet criminal standards, DA Spitzer says
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Tuesday the fighting game between two Mater Dei football players that left one with a brain injury and broken nose does not meet the legal standards...
View ArticleMater Dei to commission independent probe of its sports programs
Mater Dei High School pledged to commission an investigation into the safety practices of its athletic programs by an independent firm in the wake of an alleged February hazing incident with the...
View ArticleUSA Badminton board member calls for firing of CEO Linda French
A prominent USA Badminton board member has recommended that the national governing body fire its chief executive Linda French, according to a letter obtained by the Southern California News Group. The...
View Article‘He would be dead:’ Mother recounts how Mater Dei football players allegedly...
As Mary Hall recently read about an alleged Mater Dei High School football program hazing incident earlier this year that left one player with a traumatic brain injury and broken nose, her family’s own...
View ArticleOrange Catholic bishop asks for support and patience in Mater Dei football...
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Orange and the superintendent of the Diocese of Orange schools expressed their support for the Mater Dei High school community and asked for patience as the school’s...
View ArticleObit: Al Franken was track’s master promoter
A measure of Al Franken’s clout both within his sport and his hometown was evident on a movie set one spring day in 1953. Franken, the longtime Southern California track meet director, was parading Wes...
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USA Gymnastics, Olympic committees reach $380 million settlement in doctor...
USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee reached a $380 million settlement on Monday with the more than 500 women who were sexually abused by former U.S. Olympic and national team...
View ArticleSebastian Coe: 2022 World Track Championships a chance that ‘mustn’t be wasted’
Even for a sport that considers itself the world’s oldest, 2021 was a year for the ages for global track and field. A group of young, charismatic, world record-shattering stars produced an Olympic...
View ArticleMater Dei president Walter Jenkins resigns
Mater Dei High School president Father Walter Jenkins has resigned amid tensions between Jenkins and longtime Mater Dei head football coach Bruce Rollinson and his supporters. Jenkins’ departure comes...
View ArticleMore Mater Dei football locker room videos will be part of investigation into...
Videos showing Mater Dei High School football players acting out simulated sex acts on other players, alleged hazing and fights in the school’s locker room will be part of an investigation into the...
View ArticleCOVID-19 has figure skaters ‘on edge’ heading into nationals
Olympian Jason Brown is one of the most popular athletes in American figure skating. Under normal circumstances, he would love to hang out, sign autographs and chat with the fans who crowd arena...
View ArticleFormer Servite principal Brennan takes over at Mater Dei amid football hazing...
Former Servite High School principal Michael P. Brennan has been hired to serve as president of Mater Dei High School, the Diocese of Orange announced Friday. Brennan, currently the president of Long...
View ArticleMater Dei football, track coach raped female student in 1980s, lawsuit alleges
Mater Dei High School football coaches and players referred to it as “Hell Week,” a string of twice-a-day workouts as the Monarchs prepared for football season shortly before the start of the 1987...
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Concerns mount over potential Olympics COVID test tampering
As the World Anti-Doping Agency’s deputy general, Rob Koehler was one of a group of independent observers of the drug testing operation at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. Despite the presence of the...
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How Beijing got the Winter Olympics: The better of two bad choices
The deadline to bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games closed at midnight November 14, 2013 with six cities entering the competition. It was twice the number of cities that had applied to hold the...
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‘The Genocide Olympics:’ IOC human rights record under fire as Beijing games...
At the center of the Olympic Village at every Winter Games since Turin in 2006 the International Olympic Committee has erected truce murals for the world’s athletes to sign. The murals are designed to...
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