Ryan Bailey (water polo)

IRVINE — Newport Harbor High senior Curtis Fink has never been known for backing down from a physical game of water polo. On Saturday night at Northwood High, Fink and Sailors teammate Dan Stevens got a chance to show their skills against not high...

The Summer Olympics in London helped transfix the eyes of the sports world on representatives of Newport-Mesa. No spotlight was as brilliant as that created when Misty May-Treanor and her partner met fellow Newport Harbor High alumnus April Ross and her...

Reid Chase is constantly moving in the water on offense and defense, making things happen for the Corona del Mar High boys' water polo team. Catch him outside of the pool, and you'll see the mustache that the CdM senior is growing. "I've just been...

Newport Harbor High senior middle blocker Kevin Rakestraw has verbally committed to the Stanford men's volleyball program, his club team, Balboa Bay Volleyball Club, posted on its Facebook page Monday. Rakestraw, who is 6-foot-11, earned Daily Pilot...

It seemed inevitable their paths would cross in a meaningful way. After all Misty May-Treanor and April Ross went to the same high school, Newport Harbor, though they graduated at different times. They grew up in the same town, played at the same gyms...

The UC Irvine contingent at the Olympic Games in London includes Amber Neben, a women's road cyclist who earned a master's degree from UCI. Neben attended Orange Lutheran High and competed in track and field at the University of Nebraska, where she was...

LONDON -- In a race in which Michael Phelps showed there is nothing wrong with his game, the U.S. men's freestyle relay team was passed in the final strokes by France to lose the gold medal and settle for silver. But it wasn't as if the U.S. looked bad...

Corona del Mar High product Sam Mikulak and the other four members of the United States Olympic team finished a disappointing fifth in the men's gymnastics team final contested Monday in London. The Americans were plagued by mistakes on the pommel...

LONDON (AP) — Five things to know about Tuesday, Day 4 of the London Olympics:   —Swimmer Phelps collects two more medals to break record.   —Raisman lifts U.S. women to gymnastics gold.   —US men roll to 110-63 win over...

Former UC Irvine All-American Ryan Bailey scored three goals to help lead the U.S. men's water polo team to a hard-fought, 10-8 win over Romania in group play at the Olympics in London on Tuesday. Bailey, a center, drew the Americans even at 5-5 on an...

Newport Harbor High product April Ross and her partner, Jennifer Kessy, outlasted a team from Spain to complete Group D play undefeated in women's beach volleyball on Thursday. Ross and Kessy posted a 21-19, 19-21, 19-17 triumph over Baquerizo McMillan...

Misty May-Treanor, the former Newport Harbor High standout who grew up in Costa Mesa, along with Kerri Walsh Jennings opened the first round of single elimination with a resounding 21-13, 21-12 victory in 30 minutes against Marleen Van Iersel and Sanne...