Prep Impressions: Week 0

I covered the Salt Lake City (Utah) East-Corona Centennial varsity football game on Friday, Aug. 28, 2015, and came away thinking the Huskies were just priming the engine. Centennial (1-0 overall) got going on its first two drives of the game, both punctuated by long (45 yards) and short (1) runs from senior RB J.J. … Continue reading

Prep Preview: Big VIII League

PREP FOOTBALL 2015 BIG VIII LEAGUE PREVIEW (Records in parenthesis) Have you seen Victor Viramontes’ workout Vines?!? Viramontes has made himself the talk of the Big VIII League with several 6-second videos. The vids show him running the option with a parachute, or deadlifting a huge amount of weight (300lbs? 500lbs??) in a morning session. … Continue reading

Prep Preview: King at Centennial

I’m covering the Riverside King-Corona Centennial varsity football game tonight, Oct., 10, 2014, for The Press-Enterprise and PE.com. The best part of this assignment is getting a look at arguably one of the Inland Area’s best running backs — Centennial’s J.J. Taylor and the Huskies resurgent offense — in my first trip to Rimpau Ave. … Continue reading