(PALM SPRINGS) – It takes one to know one. Long before Dr. Ben Wehrli, DPM, became a consultant with powerhouse orthopedic companies like Stryker, Trilliant Surgical or Segway Orthopedics – or added more stripes to his decorated career at Desert Regional Medical Center’s esteemed Institute of Clinical Orthopedics & Neurosciences, his unrelenting passion as an athlete fueled a fiery purpose. …

(ANZA) — Declaring that “all of us are called to lighten the burdens of others, with whatever means we have,” the Palm Springs-based SoCal Coyotes Non-Profit Sports Leadership Organization donated half of its Anza ticket sales to the Hamilton High School football program. Hamilton head football coach Keith Moorman expressed gratitude as he accepted the team’s donation for half the gate …

(PALM SPRINGS) – Don West Jr., senior vice president of football operations for Newport Beach-based Steinberg Sports & Entertainment, has requested the SoCal Coyotes to combine their upcoming private tryout with their first practice so that he and his peers can oversee the incoming talent in the 2014 fall class. The two-time champions swiftly obliged to accommodate one of the …

The SoCal Coyotes non-profit sports leadership organization was selected this week as the nation’s number-one developmental professional program by The Football Educator, an international football platform under the direction and ownership of former Denver Broncos GM and two-time Super Bowl winner Ted Sundquist. “When NFL executive Troy Vincent, the league’s new director of football operations, declared that the league must …

(NEWPORT BEACH) — Over the course of his ground-breaking, four-decade career, power-broker Leigh Steinberg has held up jerseys for clients like Ben Roethlisberger, Steve Young, Troy Aikman and Warren Moon, and represented the number-one overall pick in the NFL a record eight times, in conjunction with over 60 first-round picks. Steinberg added a SoCal Coyotes jersey to that mix recently in …

(IRVINE) — SoCal Coyotes record-setting quarterback Nate Lewis, who needs only 511 yards and six touchdowns to become the first 10,000-yard, 100-touchdown passer in club history, received an ominous text recently from head coach J David Miller. “After three years, I’ve finally found someone to compete with you for the starting job,” the text read. After a few moments of …

(CATHEDRAL CITY) — Dunk tank. Coyotes. Need we say more? Those buzz words sent 1,500 kids at James Workman Middle School into a frenzy this week — when they learned that their ‘adopted’ SoCal Coyotes would be hosting the school’s year-end picnic and game day on Monday, June 9, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. “Bring it,” grinned star free safety …

(PALM SPRINGS) – SoCal Coyotes rookie linebacker Robert Caldwell, who led North Carolina State in tackles last year as a senior, is headed to the NFL’s Cleveland Browns as a free agent and will report this weekend, team officials announced today. “I am off to the Browns,” a jubilant Caldwell told the team this morning. “I thank Coach Miller and …

(PALM SPRINGS) — The NFL might be the most popular sport in the country, but it still hasn’t been able to do something that the three other major sports have been able to do: Create a developmental league. Troy Vincent, the NFL’s new director of football operations, wants to change that. “We need to keep the pipeline of talent flowing, and …

(CATHEDRAL CITY) — The parade of stars continued Thursday at SoCal Coyotes training camp as the two-time champions marched toward next week’s full-contact practices. North Carolina State linebacker Robert Caldwell, 6-3, 250, who led the Wolfpack in 2013 with 105 tackles and 15.5 tackles for loss, reported in peak condition. “The water just got deeper, and the current really fast,” …