"The Phys" (left) and "Hud."

​We here at the Weekly--well, me--regularly harped about the old Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles TV broadcasting team. Play-by-play man Steve Physioc was too vanilla even for Orange County, and color man Rex Hudler had a grating voice and that damn baseball he sniffed and carried like a pacifier. Naturally, I applauded when both got the boot in November 2009 after 11 seasons together. But it wasn't like I hoped they'd never find work again, so let me be the first to congratulate "Hudman" and "The Phys" for their new TV gig in Kansas City.
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Welch

​Santa Margarita High School's football team is coming off a state championship, having won the CIF Division I bowl game on Dec. 16, and all the state's largest newspaper wants is head coach Harry Welch's head.

Placed on administrative leave as the Rancho Santa Margarita parochial school and the Diocese of Orange investigate allegations he pushed or shoved a player before that bowl win, Welch is also being rocked by the firing of Kevin Lawrence Orton, his third assistant coach accused of drug possession.
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​Monterey Bay-area cocktail waitresses, adult actresses and assorted skanks, consider this your warning:

Cypress-born Tiger Woods says, "My body is feeling explosive."

If you ever needed a golf towel . . .
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Armstrong

​"There was plenty of evidence of doping, but the fact that there may have been doping doesn't necessarily mean a federal crime was committed."

-Chris Manderson, a Newport Beach attorney, reacting via New York Daily News to federal prosecutors dropping a two-year investigation into allegations seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and members of his cycling team used banned drugs to boost performance.
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​UPDATE, FEB. 3, 4:27 P.M.: According to a release this afternoon from the Anaheim Police Department, that agency and 13 others are taking part in the previously announced countywide law enforcement patrols targeting drunken drivers on Super Bowl Sunday.

That now makes it an "Avoid the 26" operation--meaning 26 law enforcement jurisdictions across the county are participating--at least until the remaining 12 cop shops in Orange County pile on as well.More >>

​Get up on Uncle Matt's bum knee and let him tell you about the 1970s. Way back then, I swear the friggin' God, Los Angeles (and eventually Anaheim) had a professional football team. They were called the "Rams," and they played home games at the LA Coliseum (and eventually the Big A). For a time the Rams had a running back who seemed to hit linebackers as hard as they tried to hit him. His name was John Cappelletti, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1973 out of Penn State, which perhaps you've heard of lately.
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​Someone renting a Honda Center luxury suite from the Anaheim Ducks got years behind on payments--we're talking more than $100,000 behind--so the NHL franchise sued and won a judgment in Orange County court for the unpaid balance.

Next, the Ducks sought to have the defendant pay its attorney fees, which the team pegged at just north of $5,000. But, like what's happening on the ice this season, things went south.
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​Those "sources" who are always close to Kobe and Vanessa Bryant apparently need to get their stories straight. Earlier this month, it was reported that as part of the couple's pending divorce, the soon-to-be-former Mrs. would get two of three properties Black Mamba owns in Newport Coast: one with a mansion the family lived in, one with a mansion her mom lives in and one with a recently built giant estate. Five days ago, it was reported all over the Interwebs that Kobe's moving back into the family abode and Vanessa's taking the new pad. Today it's reported she's getting all three properties.
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​This is Navel Gazing but we also stare at heads, particularly the ones enveloping the brains of NFL players examined by Dr. Daniel G. Amen, the Newport Beach psychiatrist and brain-imaging researcher who strongly advocates better rules and helmets to protect noggins.

But Amen's latest research also looks at the brutes' waistlines, which reveals something the good doctor calls "The Dinosaur Syndrome." As in, "Big body. Little brain. Become extinct."
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