SOCAL COYOTES COULD ADVANCE TO NATIONAL TITLE AT COWBOYS AT&T STADIUM (INDIO) – Internationally renowned AT&T Stadium will be home to the 2017 National Championship of the World Developmental Football League, when the winners of the East Coast Division and Pacific Coast Division collide on November 6, league officials confirmed today. For the SoCal Coyotes, a Pacific Coast Division championship on October 28 would mean an automatic trip to Dallas. The WDFL National … Read More
HUMILITY, INTEGRITY: WASHINGTON STATE’S ZACH KOEPP IS REALIGNED, AND DRIVEN (INDIO) – Great Passion + Clear Mission = Focused Action. Remove one of those, and you’ve got a challenge, perhaps even a career misfire. But add a little hardship – and some spiritual realignment – to an ordinary man with extraordinary skill, and the result? A man on fire. Just ask Washington State long-snapper/center Zach Koepp, 6-3, 250, once a … Read More
TODD MARINOVICH TO BATTLE FOR STARTING JOB WITH SOCAL COYOTES AS OLDEST PRO QUARTERBACK (INDIO) – Former USC 1990 Rose Bowl winner and Los Angeles Raiders first-round draft pick Todd Marinovich, who last played professional football in 2001, has signed a contract with the SoCal Coyotes and will battle for the starting job with America’s #1 Developmental Pro Football Program™. The Coyotes announced that Marinovich, 6-4, 225, whose once-promising career was derailed by drug … Read More
MARINOVICH COMEBACK: MOUSE DAVIS MAGIC, RUN ‘N’ SHOOT CAN’T HURT (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 … Read More
HOW OLD IS TOO OLD? MARINOVICH JOINS HALLOWED HALL OF VINATIERI, JAGR, CARTER AND COLON (INDIO) – The SoCal Coyotes signing this week of pro football comeback quarterback Todd Marinovich at age 48 begs the unavoidable question: How old is too old, to play pro sports? Currently, the oldest player in the NFL is Indianapolis Colts’ venerable kicker Adam Vinatieri, 44. In the NBA, it’s Vince Carter, 40, of the Memphis Grizzlies. In the NHL, … Read More
ESPN 30-FOR-30 PRODUCER PAMPHILON EMBEDDED WITH COYOTES FOR 2017 SEASON (INDIO) – Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Sean Pamphilon, who produced, directed and narrated the ESPN ‘Run Ricky Run’ for the 30-for-30 documentary series, has confirmed that he will lead a documentary film crew that will be embedded with the perennial champion SoCal Coyotes for their entire 2017 season. Pamphilon, a Peabody Award winner who has produced multiple television features for … Read More
COYOTES ADD BYU STAR AND NFL PROSPECT BLACKMON TO SILVER STRETCH (INDIO) – Blue-chip NFL receiver prospect Devon Blackmon, who attended Brigham Young University as a four-star transfer from Riverside City College, has been added to the perennial champion SoCal Coyotes potent Run ‘n’ Shoot attack, America’s #1 Developmental Pro Football Program™ confirmed. Blackmon, 5-11, 190, lettered at Brigham Young as a junior and senior while playing in a total of … Read More
‘THE SHIELD AT ONE COYOTE WAY’? SOCAL ‘TRUSTS THE PROCESS’ WILL ‘DO THE JOB’ By Conrad Negron (RANCHO MIRAGE) – Trust the process. Do your job. Both sound familiar to football fans of the University of Alabama and the New England Patriots – and now, in recent years, the perennial champion SoCal Coyotes, who have become the nation’s model for pro developmental football. “If you’re not in college, and you’re not in the NFL,” … Read More
INSIDE THE SOCAL COYOTE MACHINE By R.J. Kule, SCC Editor (INDIO) – The SoCal Coyotes put the world on notice in February when they announced they would anchor the Pacific Coast Division in the World Developmental Football League, an established, 32-team operation with franchises in six countries. For the faith-based football non-profit that stresses preparation over payoff, this giant leap forward was just another unthinkable … Read More
COYOTES ‘RESTORE THE ROAR’ AT CAHUILLA ELEMENTARY (PALM SPRINGS) – The SoCal Coyotes continued their ‘Restore the Roar’ educational program recently at Cahuilla Elementary School this week with an afternoon of encouragement to third, fourth and fifth graders. Linebacker and Bemidji State graduate Gary Young, the Coyotes 2016 leading tackler, taught students to live a life that is ‘Above the Line.’ The Coyote captain shared personal stories … Read More