(Published: 2008-10-09 02:14 AM)
Carlsbad alum finds success in cross country while training for track season.
(Published: 2008-09-17 02:16 AM)
A total of 13 medals were earned by nine athletes from San Diego and four more from the Olympic Training Center during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Among the Olympians that competed in Beijing are Coronado High's Jesse Smith with the men's water polo team, USDHS's Moriah van Norman with the women's water polo team, Morse High's Monique Henderson with the women's track and field team and Stephen Strasburg of West Hills High and San Diego State.
(Published: 2008-09-03 06:42 PM)
Ernie Anderson's photos from UCLA's 27-24 overtime upset of No. 18-ranked Tennessee on Sept. 1 at the Rose Bowl.
(Published: 2008-08-30 08:18 PM)
The Star newspaper in Cleveland County, N.C., wrote a story recently about San Diego baseball historian Bill Swank's visit the town of Shelby, where San Diego baseball legend Johnny Ritchey wasn't permitted to to play in an American Legion World Series in 1940.
(Published: 2008-08-25 11:51 PM)
The Hall of Champions and the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club partnered for Champions Day at the Races as a fund-raiser for a horse racing exhibit at the Balboa Park sports museum the day of the Pacicfic Class on Aug. 24 at the seaside track. Click on photos for larger images.
(Published: 2008-08-06 05:57 PM)
The Hall of Champions' Sports at Lunch event on Aug. 13 with Dick McGuire on his one-man play, "McGuire," prompted basketball Hall-of-Famer Bill Walton to compose a tribute to McGuire and the work of Enberg and the actor potraying McGuire, Cotter Smith.
(Published: 2008-07-19 09:42 PM)
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger visit with the USA Women's Field Hockey team at the Olympic Training Center.
(Published: 2008-06-27 10:44 PM)
Three San Diegans that played for the UCLA's women's water polo team that won a fourth straight NCAA title visited the White House.
(Published: 2008-06-24 04:35 AM)
Chargers center Cory Withrow, San Diego State coach Chuck Long and USD coach Ron Caragher spoke to a full house of 287 youth football coaches June 21 at Chargers Park for the USA Football Youth Coaching Clinic sponsored by the Hall of Champions Champions Sports Academy (CSA) and hosted by the Chargers.
(Published: 2008-06-22 08:37 PM)
UCLA All-American from Rancho Bernardo High wins U.S. Amateur Women's Public Links title.
(Published: 2008-06-18 10:12 PM)
The USGA's U.S. Open exhibit at the Hall of Champions will be open until November.
(Published: 2008-06-14 04:32 AM)
Oregon State catcher Ryan Ortiz, a first-team All-Pac-10 pick from St. Augustine High, is writing a blog for the Beavers' athletic website while competing in the USA Baseball team trials.
(Published: 2008-06-02 03:50 AM)
UC San Diego's Whitney Johnson, an aspiring surgeon, was named NCAA Division National Field Athlete of the Year.
(Published: 2008-05-23 09:11 AM)
San Diego artist Kadir Nelson, nationally renowned for his paintings that honor Negro Leagues baseball, placed third to earn a bronze medal in an Olympic art competition for his painting of "Team Handball." Nelson's painting was entered as the winner of the U.S. competition against other winners of national competitions. The three paintings will be on display in Beijing during the Olympics.
(Published: 2008-05-11 09:06 PM)
The Billy Casper Golf Cup and Corporate Cup Challenge is May 5 at San Diego Country Club in Chula Vista.
(Published: 2008-05-07 08:34 PM)
The family of Joe Alston is hosting a memorial for the San Diego sports legend and FBI agent on May 18 at the Hall of Champions. The memorial is from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Center Court.
(Published: 2008-04-23 09:34 PM)
KFMB personality Larry Himmell will serve as emcee as the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club and the San Diego Hall of Champions invite you to a Kentucky Derby Party on Saturday May 3 at the Hall of Champions. The event is a fundraiser benefiting a new horse racing exhibit at the Hall of Champions. Contact the Hall of Champions Events Department for tickets at 619-699-2309. The Hall of Champions is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization and tickets are tax deductible.
(Published: 2008-03-25 01:20 AM)
The 19th annual Martin Bayless/La'Roi Glover Free Football Camp is April 5-6 at Lincoln High. The camp schedule includes a "Night Out With The Players" on Friday, April 4 at the Hall of Champions. Bayless and over 15 of his NFL celebrity friends will attend the event. The event is from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. with a reception from 6:30 to 7:15. Click on the link below for more information.
(Published: 2008-03-06 01:38 AM)
The coaching legend makes a special trip to San Diego to speak for Pete Newell -- a man he considers his second father.
(Published: 2008-03-02 11:53 PM)
Pete Newell, Breitbard Hall of Fame, Class of 2008
(Published: 2008-03-02 05:15 PM)
Shannon MacMillan, Breitbard Hall of Fame, Class of 2008
(Published: 2008-03-02 04:52 PM)
Steve Scott, Breitbard Hall of Fame Class of 2008
(Published: 2008-02-27 06:47 PM)
Jared Dudley and Candice Wiggins are Amateur Stars of the Year honored at the 62nd annual Viejas Salute to the Champions dinner on Tuesday, March 4 at the Town and Country Hotel.
(Published: 2008-02-08 11:08 PM)
Hall of Champions and MCRD enter sports partnership.
(Published: 2008-01-02 05:37 AM)
U.S. men's team, featuring four Olympians and five national team members from San Diego, gathered in Coronado for team building.
(Published: 2007-12-29 06:02 PM)
Photos from the 30th annual Pacific Life Holiday Bowl played Dec. 27 at Quallcomm Stadium with Texas defeating Arizona State 52-34.
(Published: 2007-12-24 12:16 AM)
The USA men's national team in water polo is sponsoring a fund-raiser in preparation for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing on Saturday, Dec. 29 in Coronado.
(Published: 2007-12-22 08:57 PM)
Photos from the third annual San Diego County Credit Union Poinsetta Bowl played Dec. 20 at Qualcomm Stadium. Utah defeated Navy 35-32.
(Published: 2007-12-17 05:58 PM)
El Camino High' Greg Sprink returns to San Diego as the captain of Navy's basketball team.
(Published: 2007-09-18 03:17 PM)
Former SDSU head coach and Aztecs quarterback Kevin Craft came home as a Mt. San Antonio College tandem to face Palomar College Sept. 15 in a Mission Conference game. Palomar won, 31-23.
(Published: 2007-08-08 09:13 PM)
Patrick Henry High and San Diego State alumnus emerges as one of National League's top pitchers.
(Published: 2007-08-01 12:12 AM)
Philadelphia left-hander from Rancho Bernardo High is pitching like a veteran as a 23-year-old All-Star.
(Published: 2007-07-16 10:36 PM)
Capt. Dawn Halfaker (U.S. Army retired), a basketball star at West Point and three-sport athlete at Rancho Bernardo High, lost her right arm on the frontlines in Iraq and has since founded a security consulting company, Halfaker and Associates.
(Published: 2007-04-28 08:34 PM)
Cincinnati Bengals draft All-American Michigan cornerback from Vista High in the first round with the 18th pick overall.
(Published: 2007-02-10 02:18 PM)
With Bob Sanders playing John Lynch in the Tampa Two defense, the Colts should win the Super Bowl.
(Published: 2007-02-01 06:32 PM)
NASCAR Nextel Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, a Granite Hills High alumnus, was honored at the Hall of Champions on Jan. 31 as a "Hometown Heros" celebration presented by the HOC and the California Speedway in Fontana. Mayor Jerry Sanders declared Wednesday Jimmie Johnson Day in San Diego. He also received proclamations from the county and state. Johnson also received his 2006 Professional Star of the Year plaque since he will be preparing for the Daytona 500 and unable to attend the 61st annual Salute to Champions dinner on Feb. 13 at the Town and Country Resort.
(Published: 2006-12-27 09:00 AM)
The Hall of Champions remembers former President Ford, who passed away on Dec. 26. The story below first ran on the Hall of Champions website on April 6, 2006. Click on the photo for a larger image.
(Published: 2006-10-13 10:17 PM)
In his rookie year, QB Alex Smith improved too soon for his team to have a chance to pick Reggie Bush in the draft and reunite the two high school teammates.
(Published: 2006-10-02 12:00 PM)
The first class of San Diego County Sports Officials Hall of Fame was inducted on Oct. 3 at the Hall of Champions.
(Published: 2006-09-14 12:56 PM)
Mike Clarke could have been playing on the stage of big-time college football, but he chose the opportunities that come with football and an Ivy League education.
(Published: 2006-08-01 08:00 AM)
San Diego's Seaside volleyball team won the 2006 USA Junior Olympics national title in the boys 18 division.
(Published: 2006-07-25 10:10 AM)
Running backs grow on palm trees here, but 2006 will be the quarterback's year in San Diego.
(Published: 2006-07-11 10:39 AM)
It makes you snore. Soccer has its charms, I'm sure, but I don't see them without any scoring.
(Published: 2006-07-05 10:07 AM)
Billy Beane graduated from Mt. Carmel High School and was supposed to make it big as a baseball player, his failure to do that actually ended up turning him into one of the game's most influential persons.
(Published: 2006-06-20 10:04 AM)
Years ago, Meb Keflezighi saw his first television and didn't know what it was, now as the first American to medal in the Olympic marathon in 28 years, he's doing commercials.
(Published: 2006-05-23 10:34 AM)
A Chinese proverb is guiding Rashaan Salaam, the former La Jolla Country Day star and Heisman Trophy winner, to his second career.
(Published: 2006-05-03 09:00 AM)
NFL draft day appears to have something for Heisman Trophy-winning running backs from San Diego and ludicrous decisions.
(Published: 2006-04-27 12:25 AM)
For Arizona State cornerback R.J. Oliver's fifth NFL Draft Diary excerpt, the Escondido High alumnus offers a draft handicap based on his experience playing against some of the top names in the draft.
(Published: 2006-04-25 12:42 PM)
Even Pete Carroll is capable of making a bad decision to keep Reggie Bush off the field, but if the Houston Texans know anything, they won't let a little controversy and indecisiveness keep them from picking up the best prospect in football.
(Published: 2006-04-11 04:23 PM)
Arizona State cornerback R.J. Oliver, an Escondido High alumnus, is keeping a diary for the San Diego Hall of Champions leading up to the seven-round NFL Draft April 29-30. Oliver, a 5-foot-9, 178-pounder for the Sun Devils, says he's already added five pounds from his weight training program. As a sophomore in 2002 at ASU, he led the Pac-10 in pass breakups when he was a Pac-10 honorable mention. He started 32 of 40 career games, finishing with 146 tackles (97 solo) with nine interceptions and 31 pass breakups. In 2003 he tied a school record with a 100-yard interception return for a touchdown against Northern Arizona. He missed the 2004 season with an injury and received an NCAA medical redshirt to play his senior season in 2005. Three times in his ASU career coaches honored him as one of the team's hardest offseason workers.
(Published: 2006-03-20 03:13 PM)
One reason Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma recruited Charde Houston to play for the Huskies is he believes the San Diego High alumnus has national player-of-the-year potential.
(Published: 2006-03-14 05:57 PM)
On the first of two Pro Days at Arizona State when NFL scouts tested draft-eligible players.
(Published: 2006-03-13 08:41 PM)
On his rehab work with a noted athletic trainer in Phoenix.
(Published: 2006-01-24 03:15 PM)
Stanford All-American basketball player Candice Wiggins is one of San Diego's most accomplished girls high school athletes from her days at La Jolla Country Day. Someday she would like to carry on the memory of her father, sparkplug second baseman on the Padres' 1984 National League championship team, with an anti-drug message.
(Published: 2006-01-23 06:36 PM)
On dreaming about a pro football career from an early age.
(Published: 2006-01-10 04:44 PM)
The former Torrey Pines High and Stanford quarterback has played 13 seasons and counting as an NFL safety while putting together a career with credentials worthy of the Pro Football Hall-of-Fame in Canton, Ohio.
(Published: 2005-12-22 11:18 AM)
Navy is back for the Poinsettia Bowl after helping launch the Holiday Bowl 27 years ago with wide receiver Phil McConkey and a Navy assistant coach better known now than he was as an assistant coach for 33 years at the Naval Academy.
(Published: 2005-12-21 09:00 AM)
Reggie Bush and Moriah Van Norman have become national stars since finishing their high school careers in San Diego and arriving at USC for their college careers.
(Published: 2005-12-11 12:38 AM)
Reggie Bush's fourth Heisman Trophy for San Diego and LaDainian Tomlinson's MVP-caliber season with the Chargers adds to The 619 Club for America's Finest City, the home of America's Finest Running backs.
(Published: 2005-12-06 10:14 AM)
USC's Reggie Bush, the All-American running back from Helix High, has joined Marcus Allen, Rashaan Salaam and Ricky Williams as Heisman Trophy winners from San Diego.
(Published: 2005-10-18 06:37 PM)
San Diego, the NBA and Bill Walton were a nice fit until Bill's fragile feet betrayed him and Donald Sterling hijacked the Clippers and took them to Los Angeles. But for the third straight year, Luke Walton returns to San Diego as an NBA player for a Lakers exhibition game. Bill was inducted into the Breitbard Hall of Fame in 1990.
(Published: 2005-10-11 05:26 PM)
Lionel Van Deerlin, former U.S. Congressman, remembers another USC All-American back from San Diego who was Heisman Trophy material, but Cotton Warburton's career predated the award. Otherwise Helix High alumnus Reggie Bush might be chasing San Diego's fifth Heisman. Warburton was inducted into the Breitbard Hall of Fame in 1959.
(Published: 2005-10-09 01:41 PM)
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith, the No. 1 pick of the draft from Utah and Helix High, is making his first pro start. He has a lot to learn about the pro game, but he's has shown in the past he's a quick study.
(Published: 2005-09-23 01:39 PM)
William Buchanon's football career at USC hasn't included as many catches as it might have at another school, but the Oceanside High alum has more championship rings than he would have collected anywhere else -- enough to share with his famous father.
(Published: 2005-09-06 12:06 PM)
San Diego golfer Phil Mickelson is a popular figure in an international sport, making him an ambassador for America's Finest City when he interacts with golf fans at tournaments around the world.
(Published: 2005-08-30 11:34 AM)
Rancho Buena Vista's Little Leaguers enjoyed a trip to baseball's Disneyland for the World Series, but Little League success doesn't always equal more success in high school, college or pro ball.
(Published: 2005-08-28 09:00 AM)
Rancho Buena Vista's Little League baseball team won the third-place game against a team from Japan in the Little League World Series at South Williamsport, Pa. RBV is the eighth San Diego County team to advance to the Little League World Series.
(Published: 2005-08-26 03:00 PM)
The Patriots Day Blood and Marrow Drive is Sunday, Sept. 11 at the San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Museum.
(Published: 2005-08-24 05:08 PM)
UCLA coach Karl Dorrell feels at home with the Bruins, but he came close to trying on red and black.
(Published: 2005-08-17 11:06 PM)
Reggie Bush, the Helix High alumnus who was on the cover of Sports Illustrated's preseason football issue, went to USC hoping to establish himself as one of San Diego's all-time greatest running backs.
(Published: 2005-05-26 05:26 PM)
The Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista is a new home for Rancho Bernardo High and UCLA alumnus Tracy O'Hara, an NCAA pole vault champion who says she's learning some basics her talent allowed her to skip over in high school and college.
(Published: 2005-05-15 02:10 PM)
Youth football coaches heard from Jim Harbaugh, Tom Craft, Miles McPherson, Jim Brogan and Igor Olshansky at the Champions Sports Academy Youth Football Credentialing Clinic on May 14 at Chargers Park.
(Published: 2005-05-04 06:59 PM)
When Helix High alumnus Alex Smith's football body caught up to his football mind, he graduated from a lightly recruited high school quarterback to a Heisman Trophy finalist to the first pick of the NFL Draft.
(Published: 2005-04-24 11:41 AM)
Utah quarterback Alex Smith, a Helix High alumnus who was the first pick of the draft by the San Francisco 49ers, was one of seven San Diegans drafted in the Class of 2005.
(Published: 2005-02-20 10:04 PM)
Meb Keflezighi, a San Diego High alumnus who brought home a silver medal in the marathon at the 2004 Olympics, will be among those honored at the 59th annual Salute to Champions dinner on Feb. 22 at the Town and Country Hotel. For ticket information, call 619-234-2544.
(Published: 2005-02-17 04:37 PM)
USC running back Reggie Bush, a Helix High alumnus who was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, will be among the athletes honored at the 59th annual Salute to Champions on Feb. 22 at the Town and Country Hotel. For ticket information, call 619-234-2544.
(Published: 2005-02-14 12:12 PM)
Phil Mickelson captured his first major championship with his victory at the 2004 Masters. Mickelson is one of the Professional Stars of the Year honored at the 59th annual Salute to Champions dinner on Feb. 22 at the Town and Country Hotel. For ticket information, call 619-234-2544.
(Published: 2005-02-10 05:22 PM)
Scott Simpson, the 1987 U.S. Open champion from Madison High School, will be inducted into the Breitbard Hall of Fame on Feb. 22 at the Town and Country Hotel.
(Published: 2004-10-23 04:21 PM)
Carolina Panthers Head coach John Fox, a Castle Park High and San Diego State alum, says coaching the Bolts was a special time in his life because he grew up a Chargers fan.
(Published: 2004-09-22 01:23 PM)
San Diego has long managed to produce some of the top college field hockey prospects in the nation, including Olympians and U.S. national team players, despite the lack of an elite collegiate program on the West Coast to nurture the sport.
(Published: 2004-09-14 10:58 PM)
San Diego was a long way from the roots of the Negro League franchises based in cities such as Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Chicago, but Neale Henderson, Gene Richardson and Curtis Everett had someone to bridge the miles separating the West Coast and an opportunity with the famed Kansas City Monarchs.
(Published: 2004-09-02 01:18 PM)
Jay Hackett was a long shot as a free agent with the Chargers out of Montana State, but the Morse High alum gained what he wanted out of college: an NFL opportunity and his degree.
(Published: 2004-08-21 03:54 PM)
The Crawford High alumnus has three pieces of art on display as a part of “Shades of Greatness,” a traveling art exhibit from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo. The exhibit is visiting the San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Museum from July 28 to Sept. 18.
(Published: 2004-07-17 02:59 PM)
Noel Prefontaine, an El Camino High and San Diego State alum, is now in his seventh year playing in the Canadian Football League for the Toronto Argonauts as one of the league's premier punters.
(Published: 2004-07-15 10:26 AM)
Brandon Chillar, a Carlsbad High and UCLA alum, was a fourth-round draft pick by the St. Louis Rams who is preparing for his rookie NFL season.
(Published: 2004-07-13 02:44 PM)
The National High School Hall of Fame visited San Diego in July to induct its lastest class, adding Sacramento's Debbie Meyer to a list of 15 Californians that includes San Diegans Herb Meyer and Bill Walton.
(Published: 2004-07-02 02:17 AM)
Pete Newell, the one-time San Diego Rockets general manager who has long made San Diego his home, is considered the greatest basketball mind of all-time by many, including his old players at Cal and Michigan State.
Sports at Lunch: Jerry Magee Tribute
UCSD runner lands among the elite
