Blog - Page 24 of 189 - Shannon Petluck

October 25, 2025

Crean Lutheran football rallies from early deficit to beat Huntington Beach

IRVINE – What was billed as a battle of two of Orange County’s premier quarterbacks became a game dominated by the winning team’s ability to run the football. What looked like a possible one-sided win...

October 27, 2025

Orange County football Top 25: San Clemente’s win shakes up rankings

ORANGE COUNTY FOOTBALL TOP 25 POLL Notable this week: San Clemente’s 28-9 win over previously-undefeated Los Alamitos caused several changes in this week’s county rankings. … San Clemente returns to the Top 10, Crean Lutheran...

October 27, 2025

Court orders Concordia University Irvine to reinstate women’s sports teams

A U.S. District Court judge has barred Concordia University Irvine from eliminating the school’s women’s swimming and diving, and women’s tennis programs or any other women’s varsity team during the 2025-26 academic year. Judge Fred...

October 28, 2025

Amazon makes ‘significant’ cuts to video-game teams in Irvine, San Diego

By Jason Schreier | Bloomberg Amazon.com is gutting its video-game division as part of a sweeping layoff that will eliminate more than 14,000 corporate jobs. The company didn’t say how many video-game jobs will be...

October 28, 2025

Steve Fryer’s Orange County football Top 40 rankings, Oct. 28

Here is how I voted this week in the Orange County Top 25, plus teams I consider to be in the Nos. 26-40 range. 1. Mission Viejo 8-1 overall record 2. Santa Margarita 6-3 3....

October 28, 2025

Flying Leatherneck museum breaks ground in Irvine’s Great Park, expected to open in 2027

On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps, a groundbreaking was celebrated Tuesday, Oct. 28, for the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, which will keep some of that history alive at the...

October 29, 2025

Sean Crumby appointed as Irvine’s seventh city manager

The Irvine City Council promoted from within to fill the city’s top executive position, this week dropping interim from City Manager Sean Crumby’s title. In July, Crumby, who was Irvine’s assistant city manager at the...

October 30, 2025

Dan Albano’s Orange County football Top 40 rankings, Oct. 30

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Here is how I voted this week for the Orange County football Top 25 and my “Next 15” teams: ALBANO’S TOP 40 1....

October 30, 2025

Fryer: What we’re likely to see in the CIF-SS football playoff pairings

The CIF Southern Section football playoff brackets will be released Sunday morning. The first thing to know is that teams are placed into one the Southern Section’s 14 playoff divisions according to how the teams...

October 31, 2025

Amazon cutting 760 corporate jobs in Southern California

Amazon, which announced plans this week to reduce its global corporate workforce by about 14,000 jobs, says it is laying off 760 jobs in Southern California beginning in January as part of a shakeup driven...