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JUNK JOURNALISM

1 listened to your halftime show (ASPN) during the Mountain View-Dobson game, and | strongly resent the implication you made that I do "junk journalism."

If you guys feel I focus more on the coaches and not enough on the players, then why do you fuel it more by focusing

"You guys never have any- thing fresh or original to say. Everything is stolen from my stories."

part of your show on that? I guess you thought it would be great to take pot shots at me, because that's the only way you get all your information to talk about anyway. You guys never have anything fresh or original to say. Everything is stolen from my stories.

Obviously, you ignore the Friday prep page I do each week ... you guys seem to be only interested in the superficial (stats, size, history of the programs, traditions, where they're going to college), There's much more to report than that. I like to find the human side of the athlete or coach, the heart and soul, what's inside.

As for concentrating on the verbal battle between Jesse Parker and Vern Friedli, I was only reporting the animosity they have toward each other, and what was said to me. They fueled it. Not me. You obviously missed the Michael Bates feature that day. Wasn't that a positive story on a player? You could have talked about that during your discussion, because all you do is rip off my stuff every week anyway ... I've written so many times before that St. Mary's and Salpointe started up the first- game rivalry last year and dedicated it to former Knights' coach Ed Doherty. Big deal. Isn't the players, like you said, what the game is about? That game was about as interesting and competitive as the Thunderbird-Corona del Sol game that week.

You mentioned that there should have been no need to do a story on Parker and Earl Putnam two years ago. That was a worthwhile story because the two men, inside and outside, are so strikingly differ- ent. High school football is not just about the kids. Coaches and coaching styles play a big part in the growth of the kids and should not be ignored.

Well, at least I'm being read.

Dick Obert

Prep Sports Writer Arizona Republic September, 1988

PUBLISHER: Dick, you confuse us. Do we steal all your stories or ignore all your work?

COACHING COMMUNITY

You guys are doing a tremendous job of covering football, and I know the high school coaching community is apprecia- tive.

Coach Bob Lambie Paradise Valley High School February, 1990

Justa note to let you know how much we appreciate what you are doing for high school sports in Arizona. As a member of the coaching profession, | can speak for all of us in our appreciation of your work.

Coach Bob Vielledent Santa Rita High School March, 1990

LITTLE ROCK

I just received your magazine with the story on Little Rock Central High School ("Welcome to Central High"). It does have a great tradition in high school football. I'm glad my son was a part of it.

Coach Barry Switzer University of Oklahoma October, 1988

The article, "Welcome to Central High", was well researched and written, and doc- uments an important time in the history of the nation. As you know, our 30th reunion was held July 23, 1988. To date, we have had a reunion every five but are con- sidering every 10, as it is quite an under- taking.

Again, many thanks for a fine article and I wish you the best in the future.

Bruce Fullerton Cordova, Tenn. August, 1988

GLENDALE WON!

I may be wrong, but I think I have every issue of Phoenix Metro Football every printed. It is one of the few ways to read about the upcoming JC football sea- son, The bigger papers just don't cover JC football.

I read with interest your story on high school football on TV ("It's Great For The Kids"), but was shocked to read that Imperial Valley beat Glendale, 19-0, in 1982.

I went to Glendale CC then and the Gauchos won the game, 19-0. Not Imperial Valley. Well, at least you had the score right. Whoever told you Glendale lost was wrong.

Jerry T. Bright Albuquerque, N.M.

LOST IN THE SHUFFLE

I just received your listing of the Phoenix Metro Football all-star team for 1989. I want to thank you a great deal for your consideration of our people. The two kids from Central (Anthony Carr and Donald Watkins) are fine athletes and very deserving, but we always fear that guys playing on a struggling team will get lost in the shuffle.

It's good to know that there are still guys out there "in the press" who can cut through the flak and recognize good kids who aren't playing on the "name teams."

Thanks again for your recognition of our guys. You do an excellent job with your publications, It's neat to have that kind of magazine for high school

sports, Coach Gary Cook Central High School Phoenix January, 1990 MEMORIES

Thanks for the latest Phoenix Metro Football Magazine. I enjoy reading the arti- cles. It is very informative about high school and college football in the state.

Seeing the names of coaches and play- ers brings back many pleasant memories and historical periods of football in Arizona.

Coach Frank Kush Indianapolis Colts October, 1983

COLOR BLIND

If Mr. Sollenberger really covered the Westwood-Mountain View championship game last year — as I'm sure he did — he needs to get his eyes checked. In his story on the Wa

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I was one of the 23.487 who saw the game Westwood wore orange shirts. Not white Mountain View was the team in white. Does Barry know who really won?

David Blumb Flagstaff September, 1989

OLD COYOTES

I enjoyed your 1984 Phoenix Metro Football Magazine very much. Especially the story, "Legends Die Hard." You have made a great contribution through your many sports publications. | enjoyed an ear "The Glory That Was Phoenix Union." We old Coyotes appreciate that. There aren't many of us left

lier story,

Bill Kaikawa Tempe December, 1984

GLORY DAYS

The article on Areadia High School (Arcadia & The Glory Days") brought back some great memories. For example, in the press box when Arcadia beat Tucson in 1962, | chatted with Frank Kush. 1 remem- ber no precise words or phrases he used, but I do recall how impressed he was with (1) the ease with which the Titans were handling the Tucson team, (2) the agility and expertise of the Arcadia players, and (3) the way Richard Gray took it to the Tucson centers

As you know, the Arcadia coach then was Bob Hendricks, a former ASU quarter- back from Ajo

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I just got your latest Phoenix Metro Football Magazine, Thanks You really made my day.

Bob Hendricks Scottsdale August, 1984

FORGET SALPOINTE

T just received your 1981 football maga- zine The information about Salpointe Catholic High School 1s completely inaccu- rate. It says: "this fall's squad could be the strongest since 1971..." The truth is that by every criteria by which a football squad 1s evaluated, this is the weakest squad in

Salpointe history

Simple common courtesy would dictate that the facts be checked out before a pub- lication such as yours goes to print. This was not done.

Such a blatant misrepresentation is unfair to our school, its team, and its coaches, and it places undue pressure on

"If this represents the level of your reporting expertise, please do not refer to Salpointe Catholic High School in any of your future issues."

our players. If this represents the level of your reporting "expertise" please do not refer to Salpointe Catholic High School in any of your future issues.

Coach Ed Doherty Salpointe High School August, 1981

PUBLISHER Four months later, Salpointe Jinshed 10-2 after falling to Phoenix Trevor Browne in the state championship game

MOELLER ROLLS

Just received your 1984 preseason foot- ball magazine. As always, it is well-done and a first-class publication. You always have a lot of good players out there.

It looks like Cincinnati Moeller has another great football team. Princeton got knocked off, and I thought they were real- ly going to have it this season

God bless you always.

Coach Gerry Faust University of Notre Dame September, 1984

BOYS TOWN

Thanks you very much for the magazine with the article about my father (Skip Palrang) and Boys Town ("Boys Town vs the U.S A."), Lam very impressed with your knowledge of Boys Town athletics, and as a matter of fact, | think that you and I know more about Boys Town athletics than anyone else in the world. It sull amazes me how and why you went to the trouble to find all that information about Boys Town and Skip

Dr. Art M. Palrang Caldwell, Idaho September, 1986

COYOTES & CAVEMEN

Recently, a friend of the family mailed us a copy of your 1989 Phoenix Metro Football Magazine. I graduated from Roswell High School in New Mexico long, long ago. really enjoyed your story on Micky Reeves, "King of the Coyotes," and all the great players from "little" New Mexico.

That small state has produced many famous people in sports. As you know, Reeves is now attending Arizona State on a football scholarship. We were really proud of Timmy Smith, the former great basket- ball player from Hobbs, who rushed for 200 yards in the Super Bowl against Denver a couple of years ago

Tommy Brookshire

They weren't born when I was a Coyote, Of all the many players you men- tioned, you omitted one of Roswell's favorite sons, Tommy Brookshire. Brookshire, later a Colorado U_ and pro star, was a great all-around athlete in high school I think he might have been the state play

sr of the year in basketball, too

Robert Hansen Boulder, Colo. November, 1989

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Again, many thanks for your dedication and outstanding work for high school foot- ball in Arizona We at Peoria, and coaches everywhere, really appreciate and enjoy your efforts

Coach Doug Clapp Peoria High School May, 1990

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"Have a Ball at Brewski's"

It started in 1982, when the 'Cats ripped through this banner in Tucson... then ripped the Devils, 28-18

(Arizona Republic photo).

The 'Cats Own the State

Everybody's got an opinion. But one thing is for sure. When it comes to the local college football scene, the UA Wildcats own the state.

By Barry Sollenberger

Everybody's doing it. Reflecting on the past decade. Projecting into the future Finding fault with the past. Saluting the great ones,

Or kicking the dogs while they're down.

So here we go. If you're new to the Valley of the Sun, here's some interesting facts about local college and high school football. Facts even the locals have forgot- ten.

@ In 1970, one year before the infamous Fred Miller became athletic director, the Sun Devils were a national collegiate power in every major sport: foot- ball, basketball, baseball and track. History has proven this to be true.

Frank Kush's football program was the best kept secret west of the Rocky Mountains — except to NFL scouts. They made stops at 50,000-seat Sun Devil Stadium a habit..The 1970 season marked the Devils’ first-ever appearance on nation- al TV, a 48-26 win over North Carolina in the Peach Bowl.

@ On several different occasions, Kush- coached clubs sent more running backs into the NFL in a single season than ASL produced in the entire decade of the 80s.

Honest, oldtimers.

Before Fred Miller arrived, Ned Wulk- coached basketball teams wore conference banners and competed in NCAA tourna- ment play. ASU produced its share of NBA stars, too. In baseball, the Sun Devils, under Bobby Winkles, won three NCAA crowns. In track, Baldy Castillo-coached squads produced world class sprinters and NCAA record holders.

The only piece missing from the puzzle was world class facilities. That's where Fred Miller came in. That was his true con- tribution to the program. During his tenure and since, the current athletic director at San Diego State has been wrongly given credit by many for building ASU into "a national athletic power."

@ So strong was the football program under Frank Kush that the Sun Devils fin- ished 9-3 in their last year in the WAC (1977) and 9-3 in their first year in the Pac-

10 (1978). But ASU was a national power in every major sport before Fred Miller arrived, Not after.

@ In 1989, exactly 25 former Arizona high school products dotted active rosters of NFL teams. That's the second most in state history. On opening day in September, 13 played in the NFC and 12 in the AFC, Of those former Arizona kids, only seven (28%) played college football in Tempe.

It didn't used to be that way.

But since the fifth football game in 1979, an Oct. 13 home game against Washington, one key word has gone right

out the window. Stability. It has yet to come back. Since that date, a 12-7 win by the Sun Devils, Arizona State has had five different head coaches (Kush, Bob Owens, Darryl Rogers, John Cooper, Larry Marmie).

Just in football. ‘hose figures mirror the Oregon States of the world. During that same span, the Devils won 59% of their games. During the

previous decade, ASU had one head coach (Kush) and 16 different assistants. It won 179% of its games. No matter who they played - Oregon State, Utah State or USC.

Kush, after 22 years as top dog, was fired for allegedly hitting a player. for current baseball coach Jim Brock, everybody in the athletic department has since left his/her job.

But not to be forgotten was another milestone. Both ASU and rival Arizona joined the Pac-10 in 1978. It benefited the Wildcats the most. The shoe then was on the other foot. Arizona State all but owned the Wildcats. Especially in football.

On Nov. 24, 1979, Arizona beat ASU in

cept

"I keep telling him we're going to beat them in basket- ball pretty soon. Football, I've about given up on."

Tempe without Kush, 27-24. The 'Cats even did it after the game was over, Arizona got a second shot at a winning field goal after freshman Ron Brown, later a star with the Los Angeles Rams, roughed the UA holder on a missed field goal. Arizona was coached that year by Tony Mason. Like Kush, Mason was forced out for alleged wrong-doings.

The following year the cast changed Darryl Rogers was in charge in Tempe. Arizona hired young Larry Smith, But on the field, nothing changed. On Nov, 29, in Tucson before a regional TV audience, ASU blitzed the 'Cats, 44-7. "It will be a long time before I forget this game, Smith afterwards. It was almost an omen

said

It continued in Tempe. Max Zendejas boots a 32-yard field goal to knock

Then, unnoticed by most fans, things got closer in a hurry. In 1981, on a rainy night in Tempe, ASU fought hard to beat UA, 24-13. When the two schools meet on the gridiron, it's always a war. But when a Rose Bowl berth is at stake, it's nuclear. On Nov. 27, 1982, in Tucson, the Wildcats dealt ASU a convincing 28-18 beating, and knocked the Devils out of the Rose Bowl.

Talent-wise, it was the strongest ASU football team a UA club had ever beaten. Nine Sun Devils who started that night later played in the NFL. Almost overnight, Larry Smith had turned it around, The 'Cats knocked off unbeaten Notre Dame in South Bend, tied Rose Bowl champ UCLA, and dethroned Arizona State's (later to be) Fiesta Bowl champs on the last night of the season,

Arizona hasn't lost the state's "big game" since. In 1983 in Tempe, kicker Max ) All-America kick-

Zendejas, brother of AS er Luis, booted a 45-yarder with no time left in a 17-15 win. In 1985, nose guard Dana Wells, a Phoenix Brophy Prep prod- uct, stripped QB Jeff Van Raaphorst of the ball with seconds remaining to give Zendejas another shot to win it with his toe. He did, 16-13.

Even the 1986 Pac-10 and Rose Bowl champion Devils couldn't beat Arizona, falling, 34-17, in Tucson in a game that wasn't that close, Except for the Oregon- Oregon State rivalry, the AS ue has become the most lopsided fight in the Pac-10. Local natives and alumni have become restless.

During the recent Phoenix Open golf

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tournament, former Phoenis and ASU player Bill Mayfair was bidding for his first top-10 finish. He played in the same threesome with former UA star

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ASU out of the '86 Rose Bowl, 16-13 (Jeff Wallace photo).

"They looked like bananas. It just made me want to play harder."

Robert Gamez, winner of the Tucson Open. Ma ays that he and Gamez sometimes exchange UA-ASU banter.

"I keep telling him we're going to beat them in basketball pretty soon," Mayfair said, "Football, I've about given up on."

Not only do the 'Cats own the Devils on the playing field, they have dominated the recruiting wars for local schoolboy talent.

Last spring, Arizona signed more players (3) out of one high school (Tucson Sahuaro) than ASU signed in the whole state. (The Devils landed two, OT Mark Smith from Phoenix Alhambra and TE Marquis Tucker of Phoenix Carl Hayden.) The signing of just two Arizona products in Tempe is the second lowest total in school history. The record? One in 1985, Mesa Mountain View punter Mike Schuh.

Tucson Sahuaro tackle Mike (6-6, 290), winner of the Brian Murray Award as the state's top interior lineman, visited Arizona , USC and Michigan before choos- ing the 'Cats. Ciasca said he did not sched- ule a visit to Arizona State "because I hate ASU, It's nothing against them personally, but I grew up in Tucson and you learn to hate ASU."

Although Arizona State has landed its share of top-notch local talent (see Kings of the Decade), far too many — especially from the Phoenix area - have gotten away. At least that's the feeling among many local high school coaches

In 1987, four different South Mountain High graduates started on four different NFL teams. None played college ball in Tempe. "I grew up three minutes from Sun Devil Stadium and they overlooked me," said Byron Evans, a first-round pick of the Philadelphia Eagles and All-America linebacker for the 'Cats. In 1988, Nebraska

signed nearly as many players out of Phoenix (4) as ASU landed from the whole state (6).

Recently, ASU was in the running for Lamar Lyons, a strong safety from Saint Monica High in Santa Monica, Calif. "Arizona State is telling him he can be another David Fulcher," said Saint Monica coach Angelo Jackson, "Arizona has reminded him it beats ASU every year."

"When we play Arizona State, our local kids, especially the ones from Phoenix, really play well," insisted Willie Dudley, a former coach at Mesa Mountain View and Tempe Marcos de Niza, who worked with the UA staff last year.

The beat goes on, Last November, ASU

broke out new gold jerseys for its "big game" with Arizona. It lost again, 28-10, before 74,926 fans, the largest crowd in Sun Devil Stadium history. The mismatch outdrew both Fiesta Bowl games which crowned national champions.

Arizona linebacker Chris Singleton said he wasn't impressed by A‘ gold jerseys.

His opinion mirrored that of many Sun Devil followers, and members of the media in the press box, "They looked like bananas," Singleton said. "It just made me want to play harder." Before Kush was released from his job in 1979, negative print about his coaching tactics was written by media outlets from Los Angeles to New York. Many of those writers couldn't find Sun Devil Stadium if they had a map. With this in mind, it was refreshing to read a quote last fall by veter- an sportswriter Dean Smith, a respected historian who has been on the local scene for dec: "I have the greatest admiration for Frank

les.

Kush," he said. "He had a great ability to

motivate people, was a talented recruiter,

and is a good friend and wonderful man." Everybody's got an opinion. But one

thing is for sure. When it comes to the local college football scene, the Arizona Wildcats own the state.

At least for now.

One Sun Devil intent upon changing ASU's fortunes versus the Wildcats is senior inside backer Drew Metcalf, a graduate of McClintock High School.

AN ARIZONA LANDMARK

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4855 E. Warner Suite A381 Ahwatukee A8th St. and Warner Phoenix, AZ 85044 893-6525

2 Big Screen T.V.’s Happy Hour 4-7 p.m.

Every Wednesday Night Luncheon served from 11 am, Mon-Fri. 2 for 1 Halibut

Dinner served from 5 pm. Dinner reservations recommended. 273-7378 5001 East Washington

Every Thursday Night 2 for 1, 8 oz. Prime Rib

We Salute The McClintock Chargers 1989 5A State Champs

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Coach Karl Kiefer and his 1989 Chargers posted a 13-2 mark, while winning a state football crown for the third time in school history.

All-Time 5A Champions Record 1977, 1980 First-Team 210-70-3 & 1989 All-Staters

Six Over 100 NFL/USFL JC & College Standouts Players