By Shad Powers, The Desert Sun (COACHELLA VALLEY) – A group called the Coachella Sports and Entertainment Stadium Authority will announce plans to build The Shield at 1 Coyote Way, a $300 million, 12,000-seat mixed-use stadium in Thousand Palms. J. David Miller, the founder and coach of the SoCal Coyotes developmental football team in the desert, launched the Coachella Sports …

By Amy Diperro, The Desert Sun (COACHELLA VALLEY) – Developers have announced preliminary plans for a 12,000-seat indoor sports stadium to be built on land between the Classic Club and Interstate 10 in Thousand Palms. The stadium complex is the brainchild of J. David Miller, the head coach of the Palm Springs-based SoCal Coyotes developmental football team. Miller is hoping …

(SAN DIEGO) — The Indigenous Bowl – the largest all-Native high school football game in the country – will kick off July 7 in San Diego, and implementing the football operations of the bowl experience is SoCal Coyotes VP Football Operations Shane Helms. Helms, who also serves as Executive Director of the Native Athletic Institute (nativeathletic.org), huddled this week with SoCal head …

(INDIO) – When the coaching staff of the five-time champion SoCal Coyotes sits down each week in the team’s war room for early-summer roster engineering, the meetings go off exactly like one of their games: Timely, efficient, to the point, and with painstaking attention to detail. The ‘Coyote Way’ – the team’s formula to replenishing the roster and creating chemistry …

(INDIO) – Nearly 1,500 local young leaders at Desert Ridge Academy middle school learned to calibrate their moral compass, embrace authority, and discover powerful life skills during a rollicking ‘Above the Line’ leadership symposium from the SoCal Coyotes non-profit organization. Team football captains from Cathedral City High and Shadow Hills High – both of whom participate in the Coyotes award-winning …

(DALLAS) – For pro hopefuls, SoCal Coyotes game film is currency. With nearly a third of their 2017 undefeated Pacific Coast championship team already advancing to professional opportunities, the Coyotes must restock and reload a roster for what has swiftly become one of the nation’s most dependable breeding grounds for talented young men. Enter Wayne Anderson Jr., a pro and …

(INDIO) – Youth are the Coachella Valley’s most precious resource – and furthering education, building opportunity and creating employment is the driving force of the SoCal Coyotes non-profit organization, their head coach told Coachella Valley Rotarians Wednesday. “Hoover Dam required big thinkers with unshakable belief, and the end result was a lifetime of power and opportunity,” said J David Miller. …

(PALM SPRINGS) – Powerful top-rated FM 93.7 KCLB Rocks will broadcast this Saturday’s Pacific Coast Championship as the SoCal Coyotes attempt to win their fifth title in five years against the Los Angeles Scorpions. Conrad Negron will call the play-by-play, with ‘Slammin’ Sam Maggio providing color commentary. It will be the Coyotes seventh trip in 10 seasons to a title …

(INDIO) – The idea does not go away that SoCal Coyotes quarterback Michael Karls can simply will a football into the end zone. Regardless of down or distance last week, Karls delivered on the promise that something larger than life may occur any second when he’s at the helm of the Coyotes Run ‘n’ Shoot. In a dizzying season reserved …

(PORTLAND) – A very sober Todd Marinovich, circa 2017, stepped off an airplane, hailed a  ride, and made his way to the Sheraton Resort, where he was about to meet Darrel ‘Mouse’ Davis, godfather of the Run ‘n’ Shoot and modern four-wide offense, for the first time. As they usually do, cameras and press had already beat him there. Veteran …