Orange Coast College baseball returned in grand fashion this week, as the Pirates won three out of four games against conference-rival Fullerton Hornets to open the exhibition season.
The Orange Coast College Pirates men’s soccer team defeated the Cypress College chargers 3-0 on April 1 for their first win of the exhibition season.
It’s been a long while since baseball fans have had the privilege to go and watch a game at a stadium.
The 2021 season began last week and for the umpteenth year in a row the Los Angeles Angels seem to have reasons to be optimistic.
It seems like only yesterday when a mountain of white and blue Los Angeles Dodgers jerseys gathered in the middle of Globe Life Park in celebration of the franchise’s seventh World Series victory.
Orange Coast College is cleared to resume athletic competition, according to the school’s athletic director Jason Kehler.
Members of the Orange Coast College men’s water polo team have posted pictures on social media to urge California’s Governor Gavin Newsom in helping student athletes resume competition.
Orange Coast College recorded 1 suspected coronavirus case out of 291 tests conducted this week, according to the OCC COVID-19 Database.
Uncertainty continues to hang over the future of the 2020-21 athletic season at Orange Coast College, as there is still no expected date for any sports to get underway.
Sunday evening one of the NFL’s most complicated seasons concluded in a painstakingly one-sided blowout as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 31-9 in Super Bowl LV.
The Orange Coast College community came together in an online celebration of life for John Altobelli, his wife Keri and youngest daughter Alyssa one year after a tragic helicopter accident took their lives.
John Altobelli won 705 games and four state championships over his 27 seasons as head coach of Orange Coast College baseball. He also took home the California Community Colleges Coach of the Year Award twice (2009, 2014), as well as ABCA National Coach of the Year in 2019 after winning his f…
January 26 is a dark day for the sports world, and an even darker day for the Orange Coast College community. It will signify the one year anniversary of the tragic helicopter crash that took nine lives, one of which was OCC’s longtime baseball coach John Altobelli.
Edison High School athletes, parents and coaches gathered on Friday in Huntington Beach to protest the pandemic restrictions forestalling athletic seasons.
Sharp white lines, tightly stretched nets and royal blue pavement reflecting the school’s colors adorn the new and improved tennis courts at Orange Coast College. However, something is missing: the athletes.
With the conclusion of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens game Wednesday afternoon, the NFL finally put the longest week in its history to rest.
Think of what you can buy for $2,700.
This NFL season, the NFC East has been unforgivably bad, and the idea that one of the four teams making up this train wreck of a division will be playing playoff football come January is laughable.
The dream of collegiate athletes being able to profit off advertisements and endorsements is quickly becoming a reality in California.
The Coast Community College District approved training for athletes on its campuses as of Nov. 2, including Orange Coast College.
Following last week's approval of a “return to campus plan” the Coast Community College District has decided to now push it back due to COVID-19 concerns.
The Coast Community College District has approved a “return to campus” plan exclusively for athletes for the final eight weeks of the fall semester, the district reported this week.
The Lakers celebrated their 17th championship win in franchise history and 12th crown in the City of Los Angeles this past Sunday.
Just over a month ago, NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) colleges and universities played their first games in 2020. A month before that, most of the Power Five Conferences were ready to postpone the entire 2020-21 athletic season.
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Juggling tragedy and a global pandemic, Orange Coast College Baseball’s first-year head coach Nate Johnson hopes to get his team ready for the approaching spring season.
On Thursday night the Los Angeles Dodgers booked its ticket into the divisional series as it continues its pursuit to claim the Commissioner’s Trophy. However, the same journey does not await its crosstown foe, the Los Angeles Angels.
Sports was one of the first facets of society to feel the wrath of COVID-19. Even before schools shut down, the biggest leagues in the world fell like dominoes; the NBA, MLB and even MLS all followed suit. About seven months later, the world finds itself slowly easing back into our normal state.
As the pandemic continues, Orange Coast College women’s basketball head coach Sammy Doucette, added a new hobby: beginning her very own podcast.
In a student journalist press conference on Thursday, California Community College Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley clarified several questions regarding the resumption of athletics in the spring.
Across two years at Orange Coast College, volleyball standout Hunter Dickey excelled on and off the court, before capping off his stay with a transfer to Stanford University.
The collegiate athlete has not had an easy seven months since the coronavirus pandemic closed schools and canceled sports seasons.
The Orange Coast College water polo program will now be headed by former Long Beach State assistant coach Dan Matulis, the school announced in late May.
With about five months left until the scheduled start for athletics, Orange Coast College’s women’s basketball team, alongside other sports, are uncertain when they’ll be allowed to return to the gym, let alone the court.
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For decades, professional and premier collegiate athletes have used their platform to further social, political and communal change. Often overlooked, however, is the effect these boycotts, demands and protests have on amature athletes.
Orange Coast College’s School of Sailing and Seamanship received a Reach Hub grant and distinction as a “center of excellence” in STEM education this past July.
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Exactly four years ago Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the playing of the national anthem at an NFL game for the first time.
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On August 24, Orange County officially celebrated Kobe Bryant Day, recognizing the late Lakers legend, as well as Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife Keri and daughter Alyssa who were among the nine killed in a helicopter crash on Jan. 26. The date, 8/24, was selecte…
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Sports will not be returning to Orange Coast College this fall semester, or the Orange Empire Conference for that matter, amid the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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It was a season many on the Pirates baseball team may want to forget, which should come easy when you consider the season never really happened.
After two long months in quarantine, top-flight professional European football made its return through the German Bundesliga this weekend.
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The final series of the simulation sees Orange Coast College run into Riverside City College, an opponent below it in the rankings but one which is still threatening.
The Korean Baseball Organization is giving sports fans something to watch as the world deals with the coronavirus pandemic and an absence of live sports.
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Suffering three crumbling defeats to Saddleback, the Pirates would have had its hands full once again coming up against the Santa Ana Dons in its next series.
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Bested by Cypress in its three games series, Coast returned to action against the (16-5) Saddleback Gauchos.
After not playing since early March, European football makes its return through the German Bundesliga on Saturday.
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Coming in hot after closing out the Fullerton series and riding a two-game win streak, the Pirates next test is the formidable Cypress Chargers.
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The series was set to get underway on March 17, and as the Pirates were coming off of an earlier series win, all indicators were pointing toward another set of victories against the struggling Fullerton Hornets.
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Just two weeks ago the Orange Coast College Pirates baseball team would have finished its regular season. The team would have hoped to be preparing for another deep playoff run as it attempted to defend its title as the victors of the 2019 California Community College Baseball State Championship.
While our favorite sports are at a standstill due to quarantine, here’s a look at some of the best and most iconic sports moments in history.
As the sports world waits impatiently for COVID-19 to ease, the thought running through everyone’s mind is not when sports will return, but how it will actually operate when it does.