LOCAL
February 5, 2010
Newport Harbor High two-sport star Cody Caldwell has been dismissed from the boys’ basketball team and his status with the boys’ volleyball team remains in doubt, Sailors’ basketball coach Larry Hirst said Friday. Hirst said Caldwell, who last played in a Jan. 29 Sunset League home win over Fountain Valley, was dismissed for violating team rules. Hirst said he could not be more specific, citing restrictions in the education code about revealing such matters. It is unclear when Caldwell’s status for the upcoming volleyball season will be determined.
LOCAL
By David Carrillo Peñaloza | March 26, 2009
On the floor, behind the rest of his Newport Harbor High teammates, Cody Caldwell watches the coach and TV. Dan Glenn instructs. The TV is the visual lesson for Thursday. Glenn has been the head coach of the Newport Harbor boys’ volleyball program since 1987. Breaking down teams, footage, players, he excels at these coaching rituals. Glenn has a good read on Caldwell, almost as well as his parents. He befriended the Caldwells before coaching Cody. Whatever Glenn says about the 6-foot-5, 175-pounder, you can take his words for it. “Cody is not all connected yet,” Glenn said.
SPORTS
March 10, 2007
PAC-10 HONORS YARDLEY Newport Harbor High product George Yardley has been chosen by Stanford University to be inducted into the Pac-10 Hall of Honor. Yardley, a former Stanford All-American, who went on to have an illustrious NBA career and earn induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, is one of 10 honorees — one from each conference school — who will be recognized during a ceremony at the Hall of Honor Banquet luncheon Tuesday at the Los Angeles Marriott.
SPORTS
By David Carrillo Peñaloza | December 16, 2006
NEWPORT BEACH ? A 16-year-old wearing Grandpa's clothes is rare. The garb isn't just any Grandpa's, though. It belonged to George Yardley, a Hall of Fame basketball player and Kyle Caldwell's grandfather. Caldwell sports Grandpa's colorful shirts and worn-out baggy pants at Newport Harbor High. His basketball teammates don't mock him for it. "His grandpa was like the same size as him and all of his clothes fit him," said Weston Dunlap of Caldwell, a 6-foot-8, 220-pounder, whose Grandpa stood three inches shorter.
FEATURES
By ROBERT GARDNER | February 5, 2006
I ran into George Yardley at the doctor's office, both of us waiting for our regular checkup, and it reminded me that one part of our city has made a significant contribution to professional sports. Not many places the size of Balboa Island can boast of having had two nationally known professional athletes. Oh, professional athletes might congregate in some desirable place they can now afford. The notorious Dennis Rodman has a home on the peninsula, and a number of other former professionals live in the area, but the idea of having two athletes who were good enough to become professionals actually come from a place as small as Balboa Island is rather amazing.
NEWS
July 10, 2005
Richard Dunn FOUNTAIN VALLEY -- The balance of power in the Back Bay has always shifted like a small tremor, similar to the storied boys basketball rivalry between Newport Harbor High and Corona del Mar. While Saturday morning's setting didn't include bands and streamers and a packed gymnasium, it featured the usual tug-of-war, albeit summer, between Coach Larry Hirst's Sailors and Coach Ryan Curry's Sea Kings in...
NEWS
July 7, 2005
The 2005 George Yardley Summer Cage Classic hosted by Newport Harbor High kicks off today at 1:30 p.m. in the Sailors' gym. The tournament features 24 high school boys basketball teams, including Newport Harbor, Corona del Mar and Estancia. CdM will play El Toro, the 2004 tournament champion, at 4:30 p.m. and Newport Harbor will play Highland High from Arizona at 7:30 p.m. Estancia's first round game is tomorrow against Elsinore at 2 p.m. at Katella High.
NEWS
May 12, 2005
The Orange County Chapter of the ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) Association will honor famed Newport Harbor High alum George Yardley when its second annual golf tournament convenes May 24 at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club in Mission Viejo. Yardley, a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame who died of ALS in August 2004 at age 75 after diagnosis in early 2003, is regarded as arguably the greatest athlete to emerge from Newport Harbor, where he graduated from in 1946.
NEWS
September 12, 2004
ROGER CARLSON It has been 75 years, virtually to the day, since a man named Sidney Davidson opened the front door in September of 1929 to let the Long Gray Line in at Newport Harbor High. So it seemed appropriate to take a look around and you might be surprised at what I found a few days ago. I've always been a big fan of Howard Carter, the fellow who nosed around the Pyramids and found the remains of Tutankhamun, the boy king. So you can imagine the intrigue as I sauntered through the various nooks and crannies of Ralph K. Reed Gymnasium on the Sailors' campus.