WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:07.480 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:13.880 fourteen fifteen powered by Nova Insurance Services. Make sure your most prized possessions kat 3 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:18.320 z R two side at iHeart Radio Station. Yet. Hey, good afternoon, 4 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:21.320 everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. 5 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:25.480 I'm Steve Rivera. He's Ja Gonzalez. I thought today was Thursday. 6 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:29.559 It feels like Thursday, which was Friday. Hold that good stuff, you 7 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:33.799 know, Steve had. I had lunch with a bunch of old guys today 8 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:37.240 and that was your highlight. And you know, I know you're with one 9 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:40.719 and now that kind of thing I looked. I felt like I was looking 10 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:45.600 at my future and it's not good. She doesn't look good from here. 11 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:48.640 Let me ask you this because I'm gonna see some old dudes tonight. I 12 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:54.159 was with some tonight last night. Are you the youngest dude of them? 13 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:56.759 Yeah? Except my son was there. But yeah, other than the matter, 14 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:59.520 how he feels? Yeah, So how do you care for the free 15 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:03.319 line? How do you feel? How do you feel? I still feel 16 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:06.920 semi young because you know, I like all these guys. You know, 17 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:10.400 there's it's my brothers and then some other friends who you know, they're all 18 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:11.840 older than me. I met, you know, one of them when I 19 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:15.159 was still in high school. So we were talking about the fact that they 20 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:19.719 said, dude, I'm sixty four, and he looked at me and said, 21 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:23.280 you're just at the first stage of old. There's two more steaks. 22 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:29.840 How old was? Who was? How old was the guys? Okay, 23 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:33.599 so I'm dealing with that, like, no, see some tonight. The 24 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:36.400 one thing that gets me and one of them is probably listening because I'll see 25 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:40.519 him to it. They're cranky. They're just cranky. Yeah, it's not 26 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:44.280 a it's a weird cranky. It's like a Karen cranky. It's like they're 27 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:48.640 just tired of the day every day. Yeah, and you could say that, 28 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:51.599 you know, it's just weird the things that set them off. Yeah, 29 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:53.200 it's like you have a great life. You're saying a hundred years old, 30 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:57.159 you're you're made up to this point. Relax. Well, we're talking 31 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:00.560 about the fact that I understand this is my usual group of football fans, 32 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:04.200 right, the guys that we tailgate with, you you know who they are, 33 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:08.960 right, My brothers and and our friends. Ninety percent of the talk 34 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:13.960 is about health, health issues. Everyone's talking about their health, things going 35 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:15.520 on with their health, and I'm like, at some point, I go, 36 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:19.360 can we talk about football? It's something I'm talking about. Then we 37 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:23.319 talk about football for about three minutes, and then it leads into something about 38 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:27.599 health health, and and we're finding out there we're we're spending an awful lot 39 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:30.400 of time talking about everybody's health, and we're not spending near enough time talking 40 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:35.479 about the football season. No, it's it's a bunch of yeah, I 41 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:38.719 hear you, and you get you. I hang around that older group, 42 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:43.120 and it's it's frust to me. It's frustrating. And Steve, you're you're 43 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:47.680 you're under that Mendoza line of you know you're under sixty years old. You 44 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:52.360 know, I'm in my mid sixties. Now at sixty four, I think 45 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:54.919 you can say I'm in my mid sixties and I'm starting to go dang. 46 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:58.560 A friend of mine, a friend of mine, was Intail from Satefe this 47 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:01.400 weekend. He was doing some we got together and blah blah blah, and 48 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:06.199 I was and he has a lot of patience because the situation at home with 49 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:09.000 his mom and stuff, and I'm thinking I have no patience. I have 50 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:13.159 like zero, I have like a scale one to ten, it's three maybe, 51 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:15.120 And I get really like, you know, really, and I'm thinking, 52 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:19.120 how am I gonna make it? Because I gotta be more patient? 53 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:22.360 You know, I I you know, I hear you. I I've I 54 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:25.280 tend to as my wife has said and my kids have said, I talk 55 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:30.879 aggressively, right, I hear you talk and you always sound like you're mad. 56 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:35.439 Yeah, I'm not mad. I'm just like now, I'm not mad. 57 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:39.319 I just talk loud and fast and aggressive. Guilty and I can't help 58 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:42.759 it. Guilty is charged. Kids, What are you yelling at? What 59 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:44.800 are you talking about? What are you doing? What? Why are you 60 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:46.719 mad at me? I'm like, I'm not mad. I don't mean him 61 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:50.000 sound mad, but you're not even yelling. Hey, I'm having a hard 62 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.479 time convincing them, you know, like my dad would say. He never 63 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:54.199 yelled. He would saying you'd want to know when I'm met, you know, 64 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:57.960 yeah, yeah, but he would never ye And it's funny because I 65 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:02.120 feel like, until he got pretty old, my dad sounded like that. 66 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:04.680 I always felt like when he talked, he was pissed at something. Yeah. 67 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:11.080 Well, Rick has that same type of presence we all did. It 68 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:13.479 seems like we like very because you get it from yeah, from your dad. 69 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:15.519 You hang out with mis dad kind of relaxed, very impatient too, 70 00:04:15.519 --> 00:04:18.399 but very. You don't come okay, you know whatever. Yeah, it's 71 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:23.399 well, we don't meet, you know, it's just how we talk. 72 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:27.319 I'm you know, I'm rarely pissed at things like that, but I know 73 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:32.199 I catch myself sounding mad or sounding you know, aggressive, and then I 74 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:38.160 just try and you know, relax my shoulders and try and talk. Yeah, 75 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:41.720 I can't tell Can you can tell me? Can you relax a little? 76 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:44.279 What are you talking about? I am? Yeah? Yeah, I 77 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:46.399 thought, you know, I got my Harvard T shirt on today and I 78 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:48.000 thought it would be smarter to I want to be a little smarter. Maybe 79 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:51.120 if I'm a little smarter, I'm less angry or whatever. So well, 80 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:54.519 let me tell you. You know, one of the things that has happened 81 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:57.319 over the last twenty four hours is and I didn't know. I didn't get 82 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:00.759 this memo? Did you about the Big twelve? We should were talking to 83 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:03.199 all these people in the pectin. I think they just reached out to the 84 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:08.800 major papers. Oh, Okay, they didn't invite everybody, I think. 85 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:12.680 I think I think Michelle Gardner was on from the from the Republic. Oh 86 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:15.720 it was a one. It was a one, yeah right, Justin Spears, 87 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:18.959 No, no, okay, they did a thing where totally, I 88 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:24.079 think they invited basically the major news. They did invite all the TV stations. 89 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:28.959 They invite you and I totally Michelle Gardner, Justin Spears, uh, 90 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:30.959 somebody from your topic. And that was in Colorado. I think, no 91 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:34.040 Colorado. Michelle Gardner pointed out, Okay, I saw something. It was 92 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:39.240 justin Uh Jason Shear said, oh, you know, bret Yarmark talked to 93 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:43.319 you know, uh the four News, you know papers in the Four Cities. 94 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:46.720 Michelle Gardner came back and said that, no, they Colorado was not 95 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:48.839 on the call. Okay, it was. It was just it was a 96 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:55.319 Phoenix, Tucson and it was just the three of that. Yeah. I 97 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:57.680 saw some of it. I didn't read it at all. I know, 98 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:00.800 Justin City posted something. You know. It was just you're just talking about 99 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:03.639 how they're they're done. You know, they're done. Uh, they're done 100 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:10.879 expanding, They're not going after Oregon and Washing I mean Kallen Stanford. Uh, 101 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:15.199 you know they were they were going to be comfortable at fourteen. They're 102 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:18.879 comfortable at sixteen. That's it, and now it's time to start working on 103 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:23.399 what it's gonna look like. Mentioned that, you know, they haven't even 104 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:28.279 set up how teams will be divided up for scheduling purposes and stuff like this. 105 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:30.759 We're just getting. Of course, it's funny how that happens. You 106 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:33.600 know, something happens the next day. Okay, what about this? No, 107 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:38.800 relax, I'm telling people, relax, relax. In time, it'll 108 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:44.240 come out right, like sure at this time, look but probably by you 109 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:47.959 know, maybe as seasons and you know, maybe early spring or something like 110 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:50.680 that, you'll start because you know, they're gonna have to start putting TV 111 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:56.319 schedules together and stuff like that. He did say that they're gonna stick to 112 00:06:56.439 --> 00:07:00.959 nine football game, nine conference football games, he said at but beyond that 113 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.839 didn't say really what that any of that's gonna look like. It's way look, 114 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:09.759 it's way immature, premature, and we have plenty of time for that. 115 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:13.000 It's just the thing that came out though. CBS Sports College Basketball tweeted 116 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:18.319 this out the top five college basketball games to look forward to after conference realignment. 117 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:26.480 That number one was arizonic question. You know, don't you think don't 118 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:29.680 you think that I don't even if it's close, I mean, like that's 119 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:32.319 the I mean, that's you know, that's Duke North Carolina. Well, 120 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:35.399 I was just don't jump ahead of me, Jake, let me ask you 121 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:39.959 good questions. Come on, don't don't jump ahead of me. How's that 122 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:45.519 sound? Don't you think it's not even a close that the Big twelve basketball 123 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:47.600 uh league is going to be the best in little country? Yeah, it's 124 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:50.759 not even close. Yeah, because right now, you know, you know, 125 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:54.079 Duke is really good. North Carolina's got a you know, got a 126 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:59.480 championship appearance, you know, a year before last. But to all the 127 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:01.439 rest of the teams are kind of just you know, they're they're good, 128 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:05.199 not great. You know when you think of that, Kansas win the national 129 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:11.279 championship, Baylor's win a national championship, Texas Tech gut in the final four. 130 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:13.759 Uh, you know, they're yeah, it's it's yeah. I can't 131 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:18.319 wait another show. And I was talking about that. Can we just start 132 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:20.360 it tomorrow because it's gonna be fun. You know, I've been thinking, 133 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:24.279 you know, thinking Steve, because you know, we always talk about how 134 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:28.879 Back twelve basketball conference just hasn't been a great conference. You know, two 135 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:31.600 or three good teams everywhere. Yeah, you know, and they's just been 136 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:37.759 thinking, well, how prepared does that make an Arizona for you know, 137 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:41.279 making a run in the tournament? Right they run against run up against the 138 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:46.000 TCU or Houston or last year of Princeton, get get hitting the mouth, 139 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:48.480 and they haven't been hitting the mouth like that all year long. You know, 140 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:52.000 they're gonna be playing in this league where every game is gonna be not 141 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:56.399 every game, but a lot more really tough, physical, hard games. 142 00:08:56.440 --> 00:09:00.559 And you know, being the ever you know, ever to miss that I 143 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:03.399 am about stuff, I'd like to think that that will get Arizona be better 144 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:07.080 prepared and be maybe being a better you know, they don't have to win 145 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:11.120 the league every year to prove that they're really good the way you kind of 146 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:13.120 have to do in the Pac twelve. Right if you didn't win the league 147 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.960 or the conference tournament, how good were you? Right now? You can 148 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:22.320 finish in fourth in the Big twelve conference and you're still a really freaking good 149 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:24.960 team. Yeah, yeah, no question, no question. It's gonna benefit 150 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:28.000 them. It's gonna be fun to watch. I think the ones that benefit 151 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:31.399 the most are the fans who have tickets to the games. It's not gonna 152 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:35.120 be a watered down season. It's gonna be a fantastic season. Maybe in 153 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:41.039 addition to the non conference conference, you see Arizona's playing this coming year. 154 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:46.039 No, no, they're saying the first Arizona's first year in the in the 155 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:50.000 league. They could be playing three top five teens. Yeah, you know, 156 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:54.919 if you if you got Kansas, They've got Kansas, Baylor Duke and 157 00:09:54.360 --> 00:10:01.240 yeah, and uh came Michigan Baylor. You know, you know, Holy 158 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:05.279 Kyle, come on, that's that's fantastic. It's fantastic. And you know 159 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:09.039 what, and nothing that happens in November December and we already do this times 160 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:13.919 it matters, but it gets you set for what's right, you know all 161 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.600 that. I mean, those games are great and they're good, great TV 162 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:20.039 games, and you established yourself, you get ranked. All those things. 163 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:24.720 You know, they count when when they're doing uh bracketing and stuff like that. 164 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:28.120 But in the end, you know, just going and being strong in 165 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:31.080 your conference when you're in the Big twelve and again you finished in the top 166 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:35.000 three or four in your conference, and you're a pretty damn good team, 167 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.440 and and and and theoretically you should be ready, you know, you should 168 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:41.679 be ready to have to play those games. Let me let me ask you 169 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:46.679 the tournament. Let me ask you then with this just uh last year Princeton, 170 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:50.879 given what they went through last year, and no, there's no right 171 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:56.720 or wrong answer. Were they ready? Apparently not? Was it was it 172 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:01.039 a one off? Are we don't know? I'd like to think it was. 173 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:03.879 I think so. I like to think it was because I like to 174 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:11.600 think that that that Tommy won't happened. Let that happen. It's gonna happen 175 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:13.679 again. I couldn't tell you when look, Lude had his teams well, 176 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:18.480 and it happens. It happens, Kansas is lost in the first round. 177 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:24.000 That's my fourteen. That's it will happen. It's unappointed. But let me 178 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:26.559 tell you, I don't think Princeton was given enough credit too. And this 179 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:28.960 is not an elebut they came back and I beat Missouri. I think they 180 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:33.399 beat Missouri. And that was either either Missouri wasn't ready, which of course 181 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:37.480 that was on it was pretty good, or Princeton was pretty good. They 182 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:39.919 were just a bunch of a good, bunch of good, scrappy guys that 183 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.320 matched up. And how many games are they was gonna lose last year without 184 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:48.360 that one? Five? Maybe six? How many times that game happened? 185 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:50.679 The when they lost happened every time? Every time? Every loss. Look 186 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:56.600 like that. Anybody who thinks there should are surprised, shouldn't be every loss. 187 00:11:56.799 --> 00:11:58.840 They had the lead then blew it. Except for watching the state of 188 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:01.080 think it was. But they had lead and then let the lead go away. 189 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:05.000 So what was the shock there against the good team? Shouldn't have been, 190 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:07.759 but it was. It was right. It was more of a disappointment. 191 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:11.320 It was a huge, huge, Yeah. So but I think it's 192 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:15.720 going to be fantastic for everybody. I wonder if the season tickets are going 193 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:20.360 to be jacked up a little bit, Oh price, wife, come on, 194 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:24.519 because it's a better, better, better season, better games. Yeah, 195 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:28.440 I mean, it's certainly a better schedule. And then people aren't going 196 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:30.399 to be coming, Oh, you don't have any good games, and you 197 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:33.240 know, because you would have to look to the non conference schedule to see 198 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:35.320 if there were, because yeah, you were gonna get UCLA and you were 199 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:39.879 gonna get ore again, and then after that who knows, right, right, 200 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:43.559 and so you really were relying on the non conference games to make the 201 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:46.799 schedule worthwhile. That's not the case anymore. You're gonna have four or five 202 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:50.200 really good conference games every year. I'm not I'm not sure what we're talking 203 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:52.399 about this, but it sounds is a good conversation. So over the last 204 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:56.879 few years, especially when Sean was here at the end, and they would 205 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:00.759 say it, I may mean not be right. They say, uh, 206 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:03.600 okay, I'll have the season go well, we won the Pac twelve tournament 207 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:07.440 and the title, but we've got to beat wherever it wasn't in the So 208 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:09.639 is that good? It says, yeah, that's that's good. You mean 209 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:13.399 to tell me that Arizona is okay with within the PAC ten title, PAC 210 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:20.840 twelve title, in the in the tournament, that's been exactly okay with that 211 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:24.120 exactly. Oh we want a lot of No, that's not what this is 212 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:28.840 about. The season's always been determined by your it's either tournament. Yeah, 213 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:31.919 yeah, So you can't tell me that that was okay. I mean even 214 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:35.639 those back to back lead dates when they lost you when they lost to Wisconsin, 215 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:37.000 right, the first one. Okay, the second one, people are 216 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:39.960 really disappointed. Yeah, and it wasn't even close to second. Yeah. 217 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:43.879 Okay, so we got to talk about what's going on today? Okay, 218 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:50.559 passa callup the news director or sports the anchor at the Channel four is leaving 219 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:52.799 us. A Desert view guy. Uh so he's a local kids went to 220 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:58.759 desert Yeah, local guy moving on going to El Paso to become a news 221 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:01.399 anchor. In our past, what he was a sports guy there. So 222 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:05.000 he's going back to be uh to get a news anchored. You know, 223 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:07.399 we'll move up. So he's leaving soon, so we're no would get him 224 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.559 on and uh you're talking about some of his you know, his uh memory, 225 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:15.360 he's a favorite favorite stories and things like that since he's been here. 226 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:18.320 And then uh so he's coming up here in a couple of minutes at three 227 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:20.759 fifteen, three twenty and then in the second hour PJ. Brown, we'll 228 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:24.879 just talk about what's going on. What's going on women's sports, says she 229 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:28.080 covers at the UFA big some big news for for the for A. U 230 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:31.320 have a swimmer today and so we'll uh, you know, so we'll just 231 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:35.879 talk to talk to the basketball players got hurt, right, she's out for 232 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:39.799 the Yeah. Yeah, we'll talk for yeah. So so PJ covers all 233 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:41.320 the all the u of a women's sports for the Star, so we'll just 234 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:46.120 pick her brain about on volleyball is getting ready to start. Soccer starts tomorrow 235 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:50.240 at Iowa State. We had Beckamorrow's not yesterday. We were trying to schedule 236 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:54.679 volleyball coach Urta Stubbs. Uh, it's just not working out. 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On two psalms Sports Stock Sports fourteen 317 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:07.279 fifty streaming live, I mean I heard radio wim Hey, welcome back to 318 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:10.319 II on the ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. 319 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:14.240 He's jacking zowsome. Now on the phone, we have Paul Scolof from KVOA 320 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:19.400 Sports Department now soon to leave. How's your energy, poltoc My energy is 321 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:23.720 great and even more energy when I listened to to hometown Tucston legends. Well, 322 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:27.119 Steve Rivera, we've adopted you here in Twosson. This is your hometown 323 00:21:27.119 --> 00:21:30.200 and of course they here Jay and all that stuff. Two guys that I 324 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:34.319 looked up to all the time writing for the Tucson Citizen and Arizona Daily start 325 00:21:34.359 --> 00:21:37.599 respectively. It's it's awesome to be here. Thank you for allowing me to 326 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:41.319 be on your show, Socolo Rivera and Nzalaz. Sounds like an expensive Hispanic 327 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:45.640 firm. Yeah, it sound like a border law firm, one that's probably 328 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:49.640 not going to win your mini. Yeah, but we can drink really well. 329 00:21:51.799 --> 00:21:55.559 Yeah. So Paul you're leaving us. First of all, congratulations on 330 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:57.640 the new gig. You know, I know Tucson is gonna be, you 331 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:00.400 know, sad to see you go. You're local guys making good, so 332 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:04.440 we can't get in the way of that. Pataus a little bit about you 333 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:08.440 know, what's going on with your career. No, I appreciate that it's 334 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:12.440 been very tough for me. I got into this broadcasting industry in news, 335 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:17.400 and I kind of just made my way to sports because I've always enjoyed sports. 336 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:19.920 I grew up as an athlete. I grew up enjoying playing and reporting 337 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:25.640 sports as well. But I've got into this business doing news and there's you 338 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:27.599 know, unfortunately sports it's kind of a dying industry as you guys know what 339 00:22:27.640 --> 00:22:30.279 the papers and everything else. And I felt like I had to take advantage 340 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:34.240 of this opportunity while I could. And I'll be working at the number one 341 00:22:34.359 --> 00:22:40.720 rated station, the ABC affiliate in the al Pazzo too of al Quadez Las 342 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:45.519 Cruises market as I was fortunate enough to get the job as the main mail 343 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:48.759 anchor for the five, six and ten PM newscasts. Yeah, that sounds 344 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:52.039 like a nice gig. I would assume that recently you've been doing a lot 345 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:56.240 of news here. Uh did that nothing? I already knew you there, 346 00:22:56.359 --> 00:22:59.279 knew who paulsa Calla was. But you've done a few things here. Did 347 00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:03.039 that help you? Know what I mean? I'm sure it didn't hurt. 348 00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:04.640 But I mean, I don't want to say it in a braggadocious way, 349 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:07.039 but but I when I worked in El Paso, and I worked in that 350 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:11.119 market ten years ago and I was the sports director, but before that, 351 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:15.319 I was also I was the weekend sports anchor and I did news during the 352 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:18.279 week, so I did a lot of news stories when I was in Alpasso. 353 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:21.079 I really set a name for myself at the time for doing border stories 354 00:23:21.079 --> 00:23:25.119 and border issues, especially with the big drug war going on at the time. 355 00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:29.640 And see alquad is al Paso's sister city with the Pina Lor cartel and 356 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:33.640 the Huades cartel, and because of that, I I fortunately it was you 357 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:36.599 know, I made a name for myself there where you know, luckily for 358 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:38.920 me, I would hope that, you know, the viewers there still remember 359 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:42.920 me and they respected me as a journalist, and the station has always kept 360 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:47.720 me on their radar. And even five years ago, when Rick Carbretta, 361 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:51.200 their their main mail anchor, left, they had asked me that they had 362 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:55.000 offered me the job essentially, but I but I was under contract and I 363 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:56.200 didn't even bring it up to my news director at the time, and but 364 00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:00.680 I knew that they're on my radar and and you know they're their main news 365 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:03.160 anchor left for you know, something bigger and better and uh, and the 366 00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:07.519 opportunity was there and I couldn't pass it up. It's it was hard. 367 00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:11.960 I almost turned it down because this is my hometown and this I bleed red 368 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:15.839 and Blue University of Arizona. I have so much pride to be at Tusona 369 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:18.880 in But everybody else in the industry told me, you know what, man, 370 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:22.680 you are stupid if you do not take advantage of the job opportunity because 371 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:26.759 main anchor jobs and news do not come up that offense way the SECU second. 372 00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:30.359 Uh come okay, red and blue, when you Crimson and yellow, 373 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:36.319 Hey, well listen. I was born and raised at Tucson, so so 374 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:37.960 University of Arizona has always been my team. Man. Yes, I did 375 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:41.559 go to USC. I was lucky enough to to be able to get good 376 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:45.000 financial aid and an outside agency scholarships. I went to USC and that's where 377 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.400 I got my undergrad and Spanish linguistics and literature and then journalism. But I 378 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:53.759 but in the end, I mean, I've always and I hate when USC 379 00:24:53.799 --> 00:24:57.920 plays Arizona because one of my teams has to lose exactly. Okay, so 380 00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:02.839 let's let's run through some stuff because I'm not gonna ask you for your all 381 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:04.960 time great moment. But there's some stuff that you've covered here in town. 382 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:07.599 Uh, you know, you whether it was you of a or high school, 383 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:11.200 you know, some of the stories that have that have stuck out to 384 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:15.480 you, and then maybe some of the people that that you know will stick 385 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:18.880 with you as you as you head out of town. You know, there's 386 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:21.799 just so many stories, and I'm gonna concentrate more on the stuff that we 387 00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:25.680 only find in Tucson because you know, every every market has has the pro 388 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:27.599 teams, the college teams, the whole nine yards. But I've always just 389 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:32.359 enjoyed telling stories like you guys do the feature stories with the high school athletes. 390 00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:36.160 To me, those are the biggest deals or things like the Mexican Baseball 391 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:41.519 Fiesta put together by Mike Fader and many others where pro teams from south of 392 00:25:41.559 --> 00:25:44.400 the border play here in Tucson, and you know, those are things that 393 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:49.640 we can only do in our border culture type environment here in the Sonoran Desert. 394 00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:56.440 You know, also working with Jeff Scurrin, who's a legendary high school 395 00:25:56.440 --> 00:26:00.160 football coach has has been kind of the one of my highlights. I grew 396 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:03.720 up, you know, reading articles in the Arizona Daily Star, you know, 397 00:26:04.119 --> 00:26:07.920 great Hampston talking about this legendary guy you know by the name of Jeff 398 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:12.079 Skurrian winning all these championships, blah blah blah, and then you know a 399 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:15.720 little do I know. I ended up becoming great friends with with a guy 400 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:18.839 I covered every day, and some of the big, big memories I had 401 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:22.359 with him is thus going to Prieto, Sonoro, Mexico, and you know, 402 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:25.880 he volunteers to help out risk youth and kids out there and donate stuff, 403 00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:27.240 and you know, and I would go there as a volunteer as well 404 00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:30.000 to help, but I would end up bringing my little camera and do stories 405 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:32.920 on it. I mean, those are some of the just things that I 406 00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:34.960 remember the most of it, more of the stuff that has nothing to do 407 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:38.720 with pro sports, but everything that has to do with amateur and the community. 408 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:42.039 You were there, you lived here, obviously, but you went back 409 00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:45.160 there a lot to visit friends, I'm sure, and all that stuff. 410 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:48.119 So I'm assuming you're gonna do the same now You're gonna come back here a 411 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:51.839 lot. Oh yeah, no, no, I mean I you know there 412 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:55.920 there's Tucson is in my heart and soul. And I every market that I've 413 00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:57.200 ever worked in, whether I when I worked in Las Vegas, when I 414 00:26:57.240 --> 00:27:00.440 worked in Southern California, when I was in no past, it was I 415 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:03.880 made it to two sound at least once a month. I would drive here. 416 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:06.240 Of course, my daughter and I have my entire families here. I 417 00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:10.319 was born and raised on the South Side Sundayside Unified School District. And and 418 00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:12.039 and yes, the good thing is it's only a four hour drive. And 419 00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:17.480 here's the good news, guys. I am gonna come back many saturdays for 420 00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:19.640 home U of A football games, and it's gonna be such a great feeling 421 00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:23.440 to go as a fan, not the under deadline. I'm picking up a 422 00:27:23.480 --> 00:27:27.160 camera, jumping, walking back and forth a million times up and down the 423 00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:30.200 the field and and really cheering for the U of A like like a true 424 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:33.640 fan. And and I'll watch you guys be stressing under deadline this sun. 425 00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:37.799 Well, that's Steve. I go as a fan. That's that was that 426 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:41.359 was part of the deal on this show. I'm I'm I stayed a fan 427 00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:45.720 at least for that part of it. So so Paul, you know, 428 00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:48.799 as you mentioned, you've covered a lot of stuff you love doing the high 429 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:52.759 school and they know that. You know, you've established a following and a 430 00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:56.160 reputation for you know, for being that guy who you know who brought those 431 00:27:56.359 --> 00:27:59.160 you put those kids on TV, which is you know, you know how 432 00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:03.920 parents aren't they love that stuff you know is there? And then again you 433 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:07.279 you're a connection to you know, Sunnyside School district. You went to Desert 434 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:11.720 View. But how have you seen things evolved? I would say, you 435 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:15.079 know, since you've been here, you know, think about the time you 436 00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:18.480 were in high school and what it was like to kind of what you're leaving 437 00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:22.240 behind from a sports standpoint and coverage and those kinds of things. Yeah, 438 00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:25.759 well, I'll tell you when I was in when I was in high school, 439 00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:27.480 I would look up and I would see the guys like Dave Silver's and 440 00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:30.880 the and the Dan Ryan's and then the Kevin mccaves. I would see him 441 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:33.440 on TV and say, man, what a great job these guys have and 442 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:37.200 what a dream you get to cover sports for a living, you know, 443 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:41.279 in my case, being able to come back to my hometown and report on 444 00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:42.400 the team that I grew up sharing forward with the U of A. I 445 00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:47.640 mean, I'm just I'm simply blessed. But as you know, the industry 446 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:49.920 over the years has evolved into a situation where you know, you don't get 447 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:52.599 a photographer as much anymore. You have to shoot your own stuff. And 448 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:55.440 it is what it is. I mean, we're not saying it in a 449 00:28:55.480 --> 00:28:59.920 woes mayor complaining aspect, but it's a lot more physically and mentally demanded. 450 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:03.640 It truly is a blue collar you know, this job when it comes to 451 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.200 coverage of sports and everything else. And and also at the U of A, 452 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:11.000 I mean, I envy you Ja, and I envy you Steve because 453 00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:14.839 you guys got to cover U of A during the glory years, the Two 454 00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:17.599 Thoughts Citizen and Arizona Daily Star, where you guys got to be sent to 455 00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:19.519 the away games. You know, if it was back in the day right 456 00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:22.799 now and you guys are still there, you guys would be in Israel right 457 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:26.480 now and Abu Dhabi. And you know, I always kind of felt like, 458 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:27.799 man, that would be great if I could have worked during your guys' 459 00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:32.640 era of sports. But uh, but then you know, but it is 460 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:36.039 what it is. The sports is evolving, and unfortunately in the news industry, 461 00:29:36.599 --> 00:29:38.240 Fords a semi going down the hill. I mean, look at Kwald 462 00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:42.000 and k Gun. Unfortunately they used to have three people's sports staff, then 463 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:45.599 it's two. Now they only have one. We're lucky enough to have you 464 00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:48.640 a way to have to but it really is changing when it comes to that 465 00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:52.559 whole dynamics and in sports, and when it comes to coverage or just being 466 00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:55.839 a fan and watching the games. No, you're forward thinking and trying to 467 00:29:55.920 --> 00:30:00.839 move your career forward because in fact, you god one of our great friends 468 00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:07.559 at Channel four, the anchor there. Uh see, there aren't very many 469 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:08.960 people and I don't want to say your age, but you're over forty five 470 00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:14.279 probably or right there where there. You guys are few and far between. 471 00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:17.279 No, no, no, we I agreed. I mean, there's so 472 00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:19.000 many people that just leave the industry because they say, all right, I 473 00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:22.440 want to nine to five. I mean, there's no secret that that journalism 474 00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:26.000 jobs don't pay that well. I mean, we're not living on beans and 475 00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:29.839 rice. But but I mean you you, it's not an industry that pays 476 00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:32.480 well. So people end up leaving. They go to nine to five. 477 00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:36.000 And that's how I give props to people like Lupita Murdillo, who I grew 478 00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:38.720 up watching on TV every day sticking it out, Guys like Sean Mooney as 479 00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:41.960 well that are still in it. And and I'll let my I'll limit my 480 00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:45.759 age. I'm forty nine years old. And uh, it's funny. I 481 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:48.920 was just talking to my compadre. He is tuning in right now. But 482 00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:52.200 Paul, Hey, what's up? Man? But anyways, you know, 483 00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:53.519 we were just talking about how old we were, you know, yesterday, 484 00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:56.240 how old we are, and how like we look at somebody else our age 485 00:30:56.240 --> 00:31:00.240 and we think they're old and we wait, said up, they're already in 486 00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:06.359 the world too. Hey man, I grew up watching Yeah, right, 487 00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:11.519 Paul, who's gonna see Lucana? Now, who's gonna see I know? 488 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:15.039 Wow? You know what I am coaching? Uh, Jenna Fink, she's 489 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.079 doing a great job. Is our is our weekend sports anger, and she'll 490 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:21.519 she'll be here and there. You know, they'll eventually hire my replace man, 491 00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:22.799 and who knows, maybe you she'll be in that position. But I'm 492 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:26.799 I'm coaching her on how to say Sawarita and the whole nine yards. But 493 00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:29.680 but it is what it is, you know what I mean, if we 494 00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:33.240 need to learn from anybody, though Jay knows this because he grew up watching 495 00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:37.000 her well Lupi Momudio. She was the first one to ever say marijuana on 496 00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:45.519 camera when I'm wanna that's the way it said. So, so, you 497 00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:51.079 know, do you have is there a game a moment? Uh? You 498 00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:55.599 know something you covered that you know, a number one you know that sticks 499 00:31:55.640 --> 00:31:57.400 out to you a person maybe that you remember the most, you know, 500 00:31:57.400 --> 00:32:00.200 because there were a lot of things in there, you know when you before, 501 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:04.640 but now just one thing that's going to stick out that that you did 502 00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:07.799 hear You're experienced here, you know it is. That is the toughest question 503 00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:10.640 because I feel like there's so many number ones out there. I mean, 504 00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:15.160 I can say, you know, being on the sidelines went on New Solomons 505 00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:17.759 through that hail Mary. I had just been right there where it was a 506 00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:22.359 few feet away from me and seeing that and feeling that energy and then feeling 507 00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:23.680 the stress right afterwards, zoning, oh man, I only have a few 508 00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:27.559 seconds here to get ready to for my liveshot, or to cover the story 509 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:32.519 you know that, or just covering the University of Arizona women's basketball team making 510 00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:36.079 it all the way to the National Championship game. But to me, that 511 00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:38.359 was a thrilled because you know, we grew up as U of A men's 512 00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:42.319 basketball fans for the most part, in the U of A women's team has 513 00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:45.319 never gotten the props and the dude that they have, and it's just been 514 00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:47.960 such a treasure to cover coach of Da Barnes and to be on that run 515 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.240 and see you know, super respected journalists like PJ. Brown there as well, 516 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:57.480 and just to be on that riverwalk even though they lost by one point 517 00:32:57.480 --> 00:33:00.039 to Stanford, you know, that was such an awesome And I hate Las 518 00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:04.359 Vegas. I worked in that market for two years. I absolutely hate it. 519 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:07.519 But the only time I like it is during the Pac twelve tournament when 520 00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:12.680 the University of Arizona and Tucson just takes over that area in red and blue, 521 00:33:12.759 --> 00:33:15.799 in the whole nine yards. And to me, I remember those things 522 00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:20.880 also because I feel like in Las Vegas you would see a true representation of 523 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:25.400 what Tucson University of Arizona fans are. Unfortunately, not everybody can afford tickets 524 00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:29.599 or get good, good seats to mchael Center, but when you quote to 525 00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:32.359 Las Vegas, you see people from the Sunnyside district, you see people from 526 00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:36.480 the South Side, and you see the regular two the Rat Mchael Center as 527 00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:42.880 well. But you truly see a true, true variation of what Tucson is 528 00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:45.119 and what our Denigrathics are and the pride we have for you of a So 529 00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:49.480 I would say, you know, covering that the tournaments as well in Las 530 00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:52.880 Vegas. As much as I hate to say it, but I truly despise 531 00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:55.240 in Vegas. I'm not a fan of living as well. Let me let 532 00:33:55.240 --> 00:33:59.400 me give you another memory. So now the good thing is being behind the 533 00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:01.039 desk and be the main news anchors. You don't have to go out and 534 00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:04.400 do those stories. Maybe you will a time or two, but again, 535 00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:07.079 you don't have to run from one venue to the other like you did in 536 00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:09.800 Vegas. I wasn't going to bring it out striped on live camera. That 537 00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:14.880 still goes viral. But but no, you're right. But I'm I'm you 538 00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:16.599 know, I'm not going to be like one of those I call him high 539 00:34:16.599 --> 00:34:21.079 maintenance anchors. That's not me and I never have been. I'm gonna, 540 00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:23.199 you know, it's I'm looking at it as an opportunity. When you're an 541 00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:25.480 anchor and you're doing the five, six, and ten, you you have 542 00:34:25.559 --> 00:34:30.159 producers, you have more help. You're you're gonna get quote unquot photographers more. 543 00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:32.760 But I'm still gonna pick up the camera and go through stories that I'm 544 00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:36.880 passionate about it and I like to do positive stories and and you know, 545 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:39.280 living in that region, you know, I'll pick up a camera and maybe 546 00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:43.760 I'll do stories on some of the you know, like just you know you're 547 00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:45.440 over there, will cover new U tap into Mexico State. And I'm still 548 00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:49.119 not going to be out of sports. I already told the sports director there 549 00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:51.360 that that I'm gonna, you know, help them with there. They have 550 00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:53.599 a show called Borderland Blitz, which is like the Friday Football Fever. So 551 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:59.760 I'm gonna concentrate a lot more on doing special reports that I've always wanted to 552 00:34:59.800 --> 00:35:01.440 work on, and now I will have the time to do that because you 553 00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:07.000 have producers and others helping you with the show itself. When writing the newscast 554 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:08.159 in the whole nine yards, well, Paul, when you go out there 555 00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:10.800 and say hello to Hillary Floren for me, very good friend of mine. 556 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:14.480 Yeah, A very good friend. And then when you pass Las Crusoes Stubb 557 00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:16.199 by Enmas, you see if my statue is still there, and see if 558 00:35:16.199 --> 00:35:20.320 the birds are still pooping on it. No, I want you know what, 559 00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:22.400 I'm looking forward to being there for that, for that wall of shame, 560 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:25.360 I mean hall of fame. Sorry about that, Steve, but yeah, 561 00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:29.119 but hey, I always I always thought it was really cool that you 562 00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:31.599 went to New Mexico State and that you grew up in such an historic area 563 00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:35.679 in Santa Fe, in the whole nine yards. I appreciate all the history 564 00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:37.800 of the south border, southwest, all the way through the Camino Real, 565 00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:40.239 all the way to Santa Fe. I know that history, and it goes 566 00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:44.239 all the way down to El Paso Norte. And you know, I'm looking 567 00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:45.440 forward to being in that region again. And I'm gonna make a lot of 568 00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:49.480 trips to UH to Albuquerque because there's what it's like a three hour drive or 569 00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:52.800 something from El Paso when I'm not driving back to Tucson and well, Viva 570 00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:55.719 el Pesso, good luck, No, but always Viva Tucson. I'm gonna 571 00:35:55.719 --> 00:35:59.719 stay this real quick. A lot of people will say, you know, 572 00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:01.719 like I'm more you know there's a saying in Mexico where they say, uh, 573 00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:07.639 someone's more Mexicano than the nopal itself in the practice itself. But I 574 00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:12.679 would I change it up a little bit. I say, you'll so I 575 00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:15.639 am more tooth sown in than not just the cactus itself, but I am 576 00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:19.159 more tooth sown in than the sawaro. And I will continue to be well 577 00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:22.840 Paul. It's it's been great knowing you're having you and we expect to see 578 00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:25.599 you back here. So don't be a stranger, and we'll catch up with 579 00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:29.519 you. So we'k on that ten we'll go up eight mountains, you know, 580 00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:31.519 with the shirt off. No he no, no over there. Yeah, 581 00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:38.199 I gotta figure out a new One's a train up now, Paul. 582 00:36:38.239 --> 00:36:43.079 Good luck and thanks so much. A lot of fun, a lot of 583 00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:45.960 full Paul, full of energy, man, guys, always been full of 584 00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:51.599 it. Was like rid man, I know he wears me out. That's 585 00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:53.480 you know, great pasta colleague. We're gonna miss it, you know. 586 00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:58.119 You know, his enthusiasm is like nobody else had this, you know, 587 00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:00.320 matches. So I'll tell you to tell you a quick pall story. So 588 00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:05.360 he's played in the ludosen thing a few times and he's the only one to 589 00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:07.960 dude, you get thrown out of a get out of a game. You 590 00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:09.800 know who did it because he's he's high energy. Yeah, that's the way 591 00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:13.960 he plays. Dude like bull the China shop up and gets you, threw 592 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:22.559 him up and the guy who probably should have been thrown out of himself. 593 00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:25.519 Right, that's funny. That's too funny. All right again, Pastakla, 594 00:37:25.639 --> 00:37:29.960 congratulations and best of luck. All right, let's take our break. We're 595 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:31.719 gonna come back. We'd love to hear from you five two zero four one, 596 00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:36.679 six, seventy four forty or another day closer to football season and some 597 00:37:36.760 --> 00:37:51.320 basketball stuff going on, So give us a call. 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This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera 649 00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:45.159 and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to I 650 00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:46.119 on the Ball, you know on Fox Sportsport teen fifty. I'm Steve. 651 00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:50.599 He's gay. At ten minutes if you guys want to give us a quick 652 00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:53.599 call five two old four one six seventy four forty good to talk to to 653 00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:58.079 Skala. Yeah, you know, we'll see him around. You're one of 654 00:41:58.119 --> 00:42:01.039 the good guys, right. I wasn't going to bring up the falling down 655 00:42:01.079 --> 00:42:07.760 in Vegas, but that was that was hilarious. No, he got some 656 00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:12.599 good, good publicity. I didn't get on the Today Show because of that, 657 00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:16.519 or you know, I think they showed up. It was on ESPN. 658 00:42:16.639 --> 00:42:19.960 Don't run in your fancy shoes. That's what it is. That's what 659 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:22.599 you learn now, Hey, real quick, and we talked about it real 660 00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:25.280 earlier earlier on the show. So deon Sanders you saw it now, So 661 00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:29.239 you saw the fight, right, It was kind of nothing really, Yeah, 662 00:42:29.639 --> 00:42:31.559 two guys or three guys fighting each other and then the whole team or 663 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:37.000 some of the team getting involved, and then a couple of guys who didn't 664 00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:42.199 who didn't, And Dion goes there and says, you know, there's gonna 665 00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:45.480 be a fight, guys, everybody's got to be involved. And I'm thinking, 666 00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:45.960 that's the first thing, you know what, the first thing I thought. 667 00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:51.119 Dick told me and he'd say, what the hell are you guys doing. 668 00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:54.679 I remember being at a at the first day in pads the year that 669 00:42:54.719 --> 00:42:59.480 I covered them at Camp Co Cheese, and it was probably two plays into 670 00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:02.159 it. I can remember Chris Singleton, you know, made a tackle on 671 00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:05.599 the guy and they got up and there was some pushing and shoving, and 672 00:43:05.639 --> 00:43:07.840 then there was another one, and then another one and another one. He 673 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:12.559 stopped practice and what did he say? Knocked the craft exactly. You're wasting 674 00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:15.760 time. And I do remember a time or two another time says it's not 675 00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:20.800 about this. You guys are teammates. This is gonna cost you a penalty. 676 00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:24.400 In a crucial moment, it was we're here to work, you're wasting 677 00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:29.239 time. Nobody gets anything out of a fight. And as you said, 678 00:43:29.920 --> 00:43:32.840 we're all in the same damn team. He was living. He was a 679 00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:38.239 coming. Did you that was I saw another time too, here in town. 680 00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:42.880 That the when they practiced at the facility where the center is now. 681 00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:45.480 I saw a couple of times he would be pissed, he would be living 682 00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:49.639 over and so I saw this today. I'm thinking this is the total opposite. 683 00:43:50.639 --> 00:43:52.400 And I don't, I don't know if I agree with it because it's 684 00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:55.440 silly. It's his way of doing things, David, it's just amazing to 685 00:43:55.519 --> 00:44:00.440 be on Sanders is, you know, as a player and now as a 686 00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:04.079 coach, has proven that he's not a regular guy. Well, I don't. 687 00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:06.639 I don't know if it's a right or wrong answer. It's just a 688 00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:12.440 different answer. Who knows, you know, who knows what what he thinks 689 00:44:12.519 --> 00:44:15.079 is gonna work in his locker room, right, Because that's the thing. 690 00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:17.440 He's got a bunch of guys that have not been around each other, they 691 00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:21.559 have not played together. What does he got like seventy new guys on the 692 00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:24.519 team? You know, somebody something? You know, I don't know what 693 00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:29.920 he's trying to establish. He's trying to establish something. Look, it's his 694 00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:34.320 team. He gets to do this, and so if he if that's how 695 00:44:34.360 --> 00:44:37.320 he wants to do it, then he gets to do that. I'm you 696 00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:42.039 know, I'm on the Dick Tomy side of that, right, like, 697 00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:45.639 knock it off, yea, you know, there's no there's no good that 698 00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:51.320 comes from it. Yeah, and again it's wasting time now. And if 699 00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:54.119 these things go, if things like that, if he thinks his team bond, 700 00:44:54.159 --> 00:44:58.280 you know, okay, then maybe that's what his team will bond over 701 00:44:58.320 --> 00:45:01.800 that. But there's an also a chance that there's also a chance that guys 702 00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:07.559 will get you know, something like that, and that tension will continue and 703 00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:09.199 then it becomes disrupted. And that's what I'm thinking, and that's what I'm 704 00:45:09.199 --> 00:45:13.920 thinking. And when there is a fight in a game, because you know 705 00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:16.400 there's gonna be that, you have these guys running off the field or whatever 706 00:45:16.840 --> 00:45:21.519 you can't run on. Guess what happened? Suspensions, suspensions, And now 707 00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:23.760 you just don't get it. Don't kind of weird to me that it makes 708 00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:28.039 no sense to me. It makes no sense to me that that the coach 709 00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:31.679 would would encourage guys to get in the fights. I just don't know. 710 00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:36.599 And then the coach should be right there too, he says, I've I've 711 00:45:36.639 --> 00:45:39.000 been there and done that. We'll see what happens, We'll see what happens. 712 00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:44.519 It's just a strange philosophy. It is. But again, Dean Sandres 713 00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:46.000 is, I'm not gonna come a strange guy, but he's certainly a different 714 00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:50.400 guy, and so he's gonna be a different coach. We're gonna have our 715 00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:52.920 guy, Brian and Brian right is it from Colorado? Who's the guy? 716 00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:58.320 Yeah? Bran? How because he got on Brian right here? And that's 717 00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:00.000 why I don't know. I don't want to ask him because he probably asked 718 00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:04.679 him what's this gonna be like and he said he wasn't sure. He got 719 00:46:04.760 --> 00:46:07.000 on him right away. I mean, it says the press commerce last week, 720 00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:13.599 and we'll have him on well again. He has some unrealistic expectations about 721 00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:19.599 how the media is gonna treat him. He wants, he wants to be 722 00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:22.280 treated a certain way, and he's gonna get a little bit of ana be 723 00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:27.280 a little bit of a shock in terms of they're not always gonna say great 724 00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:30.599 things about Don and if he's gonna hate that and kick reporters out or yelling 725 00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:34.800 at him or whatever, that's not gonna fly for very long. Welcome, 726 00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:37.199 well, you're welcome to the real world. Yeah. Well, you know, 727 00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:38.559 he thinks, well, he thinks I'm deon, so you gotta put 728 00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:43.119 up with it. Well, maybe they do, maybe they don't. Well, 729 00:46:44.400 --> 00:46:46.519 Jay, look at here, it's a it's a lovey dovey. Sure, 730 00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:51.920 look at other places like here college town. It's mostly a lovey dovey. 731 00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:54.159 I was guilty of it too, except if you have one or two 732 00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:58.480 columnists that aren't like that. But most of them are kind of in not 733 00:46:58.679 --> 00:47:00.800 in bed with the team, but they would rather see you succeed than not 734 00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:04.519 succeeded. Well, Steve, it's some part of it too. I think 735 00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:09.079 it's so much of the competition has been removed from reporting, right boy, 736 00:47:09.320 --> 00:47:13.480 because now in the airs one daily start doesn't have to worry about getting beat 737 00:47:13.519 --> 00:47:17.000 by on a story. So you can be friendly and you can just cover 738 00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:21.360 things at whatever pace you cover. Maybe you don't look as hard for the 739 00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:23.159 you know, for the for the underneath. You know, you don't lift 740 00:47:23.159 --> 00:47:28.760 the rug you see what's under there because you're not afraid somebody's gonna beat you 741 00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:32.440 one. You know, look in the TV stations and US and the and 742 00:47:32.519 --> 00:47:37.199 the and the website. Guys, we're all we're all friendly to them. 743 00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:39.920 You know what we know that if we start pissing off all the Arizona fans, 744 00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:43.400 people aren't gonna listen to us. And that's not to say that we're 745 00:47:43.400 --> 00:47:45.159 not going to call out stuff. If there's a plane like crap, we're 746 00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:49.480 gonna say there's crap. And we have you know, I mean when when 747 00:47:49.480 --> 00:47:51.880 we thought Kevin someone needed to be fired, he needed to be you know, 748 00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:52.920 we thought he needed to be fired, and we said he needed to 749 00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:57.480 be fired. But you know, we're not You and I are not out 750 00:47:57.519 --> 00:48:00.880 there every day slugging through all the stuff trying to come up with something that 751 00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:04.519 somebody else doesn't have because you don't. First of all, you don't have 752 00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:06.760 that access. Yeah, don't have that access. And there's no needs. 753 00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:09.320 What am I gonna get out of it? And just want to read about 754 00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:14.280 their team and learn about the players as much as they can and hear us 755 00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:16.280 talk about you know, they want for some reason, they want to know 756 00:48:16.360 --> 00:48:20.639 our opinions, like you know, we know more than everybody else. I 757 00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:22.880 wouldn't know, which we really don't, but we've been around long enough to 758 00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:25.400 be able to have perspective on different things. Sure, sure, no, 759 00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:28.760 I think that's one of the reasons I think this is what Bruce said last 760 00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:31.159 week when we had him on and he'll be on tomorrow from Abu Dhabi, 761 00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:36.320 is that they went to get a feel for the team and to let the 762 00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:39.360 readers know who these kids are. Right, they may not get that inside 763 00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:44.119 story, but at least they're with them to tell what's happening. They'll get 764 00:48:44.119 --> 00:48:46.679 comfortable with him, befortable with them, and then as the season goes on. 765 00:48:47.079 --> 00:48:51.239 I mean, this is sort of a tour for Bruce to be able 766 00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:53.440 to do his job. Ben. You know when basketball season rolls, right, 767 00:48:53.719 --> 00:48:59.400 and if anybody who doesn't know this, this is Bruce's team. You 768 00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:01.639 know, forever he and I competed against each other. I did it with 769 00:49:01.679 --> 00:49:05.440 Willner, did it with hobb and all these guys. It was a dual 770 00:49:05.559 --> 00:49:09.320 type of competitiveness. Anybody who thinks that they're competing with Bruce, they're not. 771 00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:13.280 They're not. He's there, he's going, he's there. They're not. 772 00:49:13.440 --> 00:49:15.079 Yeah, no, you cover the team. That's good, but you're 773 00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:20.079 not. You're not there. Exactly no percent agree with you on that. 774 00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:22.239 And you know Bruce does good and you know he's that he's the last guy 775 00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:27.400 out of the arena every night, but a choice choice. I told him 776 00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:30.360 that, we talked about that last time. We gotta get a pizza. 777 00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:36.119 That's shut down, Bruce Waite. But you know, but you know, 778 00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:38.320 Bruce does a good job and we get you know, we get as much 779 00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:42.280 as we can with the access that Bruce has, and we rely on him, 780 00:49:42.320 --> 00:49:44.599 you know, we get him on the show. We read his stuff 781 00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:47.760 and that kind of forms what we know about about the program. And some 782 00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:51.039 of the other guys too, you know, you know, we know who 783 00:49:51.039 --> 00:49:55.119 they are, you know, Troy Hutchinson's and and but here's the thing, 784 00:49:55.159 --> 00:49:59.960 here's the problem. And everybody does this more now that it's a group setting. 785 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:04.320 You asked the questions. Everybody has the same stuff. And I've heard 786 00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:06.920 this a two or three times now in the last month or so. Everybody 787 00:50:06.920 --> 00:50:09.159 has the same stuff. It's how they right it. It's right. It's 788 00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:12.599 how you present how you present it in what way is the difference? Like 789 00:50:12.679 --> 00:50:15.800 today? Okay, look, you're going to social media and a bunch of 790 00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:17.239 guys who are you're not were not practice, couldn't go to practice? How 791 00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:21.360 you know, we got other things that we have to do. Everybody's talking 792 00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:25.079 about how uh Scotty Graham. Discussion about Scotty Graham, the running backs coach 793 00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:30.239 who made it a point to go to Mike Michael Wiley's graduation ceremonial. What 794 00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:35.559 a big deal that was for both of them. That's sort of the narrative 795 00:50:35.559 --> 00:50:39.119 coming out of out of today's practice, that the closeness that Scotty Graham has 796 00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:45.920 with his running backs and and this relationship that they have. But everybody I've 797 00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:49.360 seen, you know, eight different guys have we did that clip. There's 798 00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:52.360 your problem, Jay, when we were covering back with Bruce and back with 799 00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:55.280 you, and we all had individual time, right, we all had an 800 00:50:55.280 --> 00:51:00.800 individual time our stories a practice would end. Yeah, right, you'd go 801 00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:02.519 get a player, I'd go get a player. Sure, we'd all go 802 00:51:02.599 --> 00:51:07.360 talk to Dick, you know, and you talk to Dick about the conversation 803 00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:09.559 you just had with a player. And so I mean kind of had an 804 00:51:09.599 --> 00:51:12.679 idea. What do you tell the stories were? But they were different. 805 00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:15.760 There were different stories. Every day you had something, I had something without 806 00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:21.320 questions. And that's not to the fault of the local media. It's Arizona 807 00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:24.440 wants it that way. Yeah, no, yeah, they they again controlling, 808 00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:29.000 the controlling the narrative and they do and look again. As a PR 809 00:51:29.159 --> 00:51:32.920 consultant, that's how I've advised my clients is the make your own news. 810 00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:37.639 You don't need the newspaper anymore. You don't need you know, You've got 811 00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:40.679 a Facebook page, you got an Instagram account, you got a Twitter pick. 812 00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:45.039 Create your own story out there and let people pick up on that. 813 00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:49.199 That's how the news has done. The one thing that people have to realize, 814 00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:52.039 it's gonna be mostly one side. It is. It's gonna be one 815 00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:55.000 side. No, that's exactly what it is anymore. All right, uh 816 00:51:55.039 --> 00:51:58.320 man, we're top of the hour already, Steve, all right, let's 817 00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:00.800 take our break. We got a break in new is coming up here at 818 00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:04.960 the top, and then we'll have PJ. PJ. Brown. We'll talk 819 00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:07.920 to some women's sports, which are things again started. Soccer starts tomorrow. 820 00:52:08.519 --> 00:52:12.880 There was a press conference with Rita Stubbs for Bolli Boss, so I'm sure 821 00:52:12.880 --> 00:52:16.400 PJ was there. We'll just see what's going on with the with the ladies 822 00:52:16.440 --> 00:52:21.360 sports over there. So stick around for all that don't believe they just wine, 823 00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:24.519 don't believe they just lie, don't believe they just well