![]() ![]() He remembers when he was on the radio with former Hillsboro and Pearl-Cohn football coach Maurice Fitzgerald and current WNSR sports talk show host Greg Pogue. How he became 'the guru'įair has countless high school football stories from decades of phone calls and in-person interviews. He also wants to continue to be part of the TV coverage at the state championship games. He plans to continue work on radio, where he'll pick the winner every game each week in the state. He's on radio and has worked as a sideline reporter during the TSSAA BlueCross Bowl high school football state championship games. And he worked in Carthage.Īnd of course there is more. He did it at a weekly in Cookeville, covering teams in Putnam County. It was just something very special."įair spent more than 50 years covering high school football. "Ideally, you'd like one for every high school sport, but you understand why that doesn't happen. ![]() "At that time, you had some of those things for the college world, but there wasn't a book for high school sports that emphasized one thing, and this was for football. "I encouraged Murphy to do this because I knew how well it would be received," former TSSAA executive director Ronnie Carter said. He'd travel the state, dropping off boxes of books that he had loaded up. It's led to countless nights on the sidelines in the fall and buried in his computer in the offseason compiling surveys from coaches, then using their own words to preview those teams in his book. I had been an editor of a weekly newspaper in Carthage, and that meant you were going to be on the sideline every Friday night covering (Smith County) or Gordonsville." "I missed the atmosphere and the writing part of it. HIGH SCHOOL NEWSLETTER: Sign up now for our prep sports newsletterĬOUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 50 questions, 50 days before the 2022 Nashville area high school football seasonįOOTBALL AND PRAYER: How does the Supreme Court ruling involving prayer affect high school coaches? "We just said, don't let her beat us with her legs.View Gallery: Photos: Murphy Fair the Guru of Tennessee High School Football "Ella Bode did a tremendous job of just staying in front of her," Alonso coach Matt Hernandez said. Ella Bode recorded two sacks and Sophie Duong relentlessly pulled flags near the line. The Ravens limited the damage from the elusive Maddox, staying patient and spying the quarterback while blanketing Fleming Island's wideouts downfield. Quarterback Mykayla Maddox rounded the end for a 6-yard touchdown rush to finish off Fleming Island's best drive and cut Alonso's lead to 20-6, and after beginning the third quarter with the ball, the Golden Eagles advanced to near midfield.īut Makenna Sturgis picked off Maddox's pass over the middle, setting up the second of three touchdown passes from Rowe to Klaus. Meet the Spring Six: Teams to watch during spring football in Jacksonville and Northeast Florida GOLDEN EAGLE HIGHLIGHTS NOT ENOUGHįleming Island (16-1) fought to the end, and for a sliver of the second and third quarters, they showed signs of mounting a comeback like the rally that took down 2022 champion Davie Western on Friday. Regional baseball: Providence tops Wolfson Clay, Bishop Kenny, Baker County, SJCD advance "We've put so much work and dedication into this program, so the results show hard work pays off."įirst Coast Varsity Weekly: Raines football star Solomon Thomas adds discus title to feats "A lot of us have been working four years for this," Alonso senior quarterback Mieke Rowe said. "They just do everything well," Fleming Island head coach Clint Lyons said.Īlonso turned up the scoring and lifted up the Florida High School Athletic Association championship trophy, ending Fleming Island's title quest 33-6 in Saturday's Class 2A final at The Corral in Mandarin.įirst place in the national MaxPreps rankings, the Ravens left little doubt.Įryn Klaus caught three touchdown passes and Alonso (23-0) completed a Tampa sweep on the First Coast - Tampa Robinson also won the Class 1A title - with a performance that cemented their season among Florida's best ever. Tampa Alonso flag football is good - really good. It took only one possession for Fleming Island to get an up-close view of what 22 other opponents had already found out. View Gallery: High school flag football: Fleming Island-Tampa Alonso final photos
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