By Tuesday night, both Gilbert and Mesquite high schools were expected to have finalized their respective football coaches in Tim Rutt (Gilbert) and Jim Jones (Mesquite).

Arizona High School Football Coaches Association Big 25 Team (regardless of classification), as voted by Arizona high school football coaches:

KB Toys will be setting up shop in a few East Valley Sears stores this month.

Jerod Aker didn’t make a lot of friends Tuesday, monotonously running his Morenci team through defending a first-and-third, double-steal situation over and over.

Here are the Class 5A All-State football teams as determined by the Arizona High School Football Coaches Association:

Here are the Class 5A All-State football teams as determined by the Arizona High School Football Coaches Association:

Arredondo named two-way player of the year

Christian Westerman Jr. chuckled while taking off the armor beneath his Hamilton uniform. The heat, humidity and scope of a nationally televised high school football game weren’t lost on the part of the Huskies’ pancake-dominating senior offensive tackle.

Senior center Michael Crowell, a starter on Mesa High’s state championship boys basketball team, will undergo surgery to repair a dislocated shoulder on Friday.

OFFENSE

May 15, 2005

Parents and school nurses urged the Scottsdale Unified School District governing board not to save money by replacing registered nurses as the district began budget discussions Tuesday night.

Eleven Arizona schools posted a combined 7-23 record against teams from other states over four days of play in the prestigious Nike Tournament of Champions, the 72-team national girls prep basketball tournament that just completed its third consecutive year in the Phoenix area.

It’s hard to find flaw with a two-time defending state champion on a 38-game winning streak, but perhaps the nitpicking helps explain why Hamilton is the program it’s become.

If this was only a tune-up, it’s going to be a pretty boring 5A-I state tournament.

May 14, 2005

February 26, 2005

May 16, 2004

5A-I CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

Two questions in, and the writing was on the wall that this conversation wasn’t going to reveal some watershed explanation.

A nationally-televised high school football game between two big-school powers. An overflow crowd coming with hundreds more possibly being turned away.

Does national exposure matter?