Tim Tebow could be playing for the Anaheim Angels of Anaheim right now instead of possibly holding a clipboard for Tom Brady on the New England Patriots' sidelines (if the controversial lefty quarterback even makes the final cuts).

The Halos' revelation comes courtesy of Tom Kotchman, the former Angels scout, minor league coach and father of onetime Angel first baseman Casey Kotchman.

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New Jersey State Police say an investigation has been launched into the Bridgeport Speedway dirt track crash that killed NASCAR driver Jason Leffler of Long Beach Wednesday night.

Leffler was in second place and away from other cars early in his heat when his car slammed into a wall on the fourth turn of the track about 15 miles southwest of Philadelphia.

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See the update at the end of this post about the charges prosecutors have leveled against Wikstrom and the punishment the veteran local baseball coach faces with a conviction.

ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 13, 9:47 A.M.: Another high school baseball coach in Anaheim has been accused of using social media to get his rocks off with unsuspecting boy players. Katella High School's Edwin Alan Wikstrom of Anaheim was arrested while coaching a baseball game in Lakewood. The charge: suspicion of sending sexually explicit text messages to minors.

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A white man about 30 years old and 5-foot-9 with an average build, light brown hair and brown eyes is probably a pretty common sight in Brea. This particular fellow was even wearing the usual OC yuppie uniform: button-down dress shirt and khaki pants. But what he's wanted for has prompted police to step up patrols around Brea Olinda High School.

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A settlement has been reached that has Joe and Pamela Bryant issuing an apology to their son Kobe Bryant, and the Lakers' captain agreeing to drop his lawsuit and allow his parents to sell 10 percent of the memorabilia his mom was going to auction off to buy a house.

So perhaps this Father's Day will be a little less tense around Newport Coast.

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Joe Montana, Dwight Clark, Oscar Robertson and the unappointed U.S. ambassador to North Korea are coming to Long Beach Saturday.

The San Francisco 49ers quarterback-and-receiver tandem responsible for "The Catch" are scheduled to join the two NBA Hall of Famers--Robertson and Dennis Rodman--at the Long Beach Coin, Stamp & Sports Collectible Expo in the Long Beach Convention Center.

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Deacon Jones, an NFL Hall of Famer with the Los Angeles Rams and San Diego Chargers and, arguably, the best defensive end of all time, died of natural causes in his Anaheim Hills home Monday.

He was 74, which is one digit off from his jersey number (75) that the Rams retired in 2009.

With Jones' death, the Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" defensive line of the 1960s-70s is down to one survivor. Merlin Olson and Lamar Lundy preceded Jones in death.

Only Rosey Grier remains.

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A 13-year prison sentence has been handed to a parolee who defended himself in court before being convicted of stealing $198,000 from seven victims of a fraudulent investment scheme that included him having told marks Kobe Bryant and LeBron James were his clients.

Calvin James Calvin, 48, of Newport Beach, had been found guilty by a jury on Jan. 28.

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Cowboy fan Cole: This is a sneaky racist symbol and, besides, they beat my pokes twice last year

Oklahoma Republican Congressman Tom Cole might be a mirror image of Orange County's blowhard Dana Rohrabacher: both are crafty, career politicians, who, depending on the day, flip-flop between conservatism and libertarianism to suit their own particular, political agendas.

Some days they despise government bureaucrats (and even more so: other politicians) lecturing private business owners about how to run their companies.

In his non-libertarian persona, Cole has been taking periodic leave of weighty economic, meteorological and national security concerns to try to force Daniel Snyder, private owner of the Washington Redskins, to change the team's name because he insists "Redskins" is equivalent to the "N" word.

If Cole, an admitted fan of Redskins' rival Dallas Cowboys, is sincere--and that's an open question, here's a list of other offensive NFL team names he can also campaign against:

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Anyone who has followed Jenna Jameson and Tito Ortiz's hot/cold relationship here, on Twitter or in the gossip press knows that the UFC Hall of Famer has previously been arrested for roughing up his former porn star baby mama, that she later recanted and that, after some erratic behavior, she lost full-time custody of her sons. Jameson had been fairly quiet about "The Bad Boy of Huntington Beach" raising the kids alone in his Huntington Harbour pad, save for some tweets about missing her babies. But today and Thursday she unloaded on Ortiz via Twitter, alleging he beat her up and "almost killed" her, "faked" drug tests before UFC fights and is unfairly denying her custody of their 4-year-old twins.

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