I received this mid-day text late last week from a friend. “Are you familiar with Adrian Stubbs?” My transparent answer was like many of us here in Arizona: “Only this…

Trace Carroll’s infectious smile is on full display as we enter Chaparral High’s spacious football meeting room and he proudly details the back wall collage current players can’t miss when…

Myles Libman sits across the table from me, picking away at a bag of chips while enjoying our relatively quiet mid-afternoon lunch at Desert Ridge Mall in the north Valley….

Long-time Arizona high school head coach Jake Barro has been on quite a ride this holiday season. After taking a defensive analyst position at Illinois State last off-season, Barro was…

Well, that sure didn’t take long. To say former ArizonaVarsity.com intern and Boulder Creek High alum Andrew Morgan has fast-tracked his way into the college football world would be an…

What a difference a year makes. When then new Casteel High head coach Joe Bushman arrived on campus nearly a year ago, he immediately sensed something inside the Colts’ program…

And just like that, the big school Arizona state football championships are just hours away. The 2025 season, as expected, has been another memorable one, so “Zone Read” thought there…

Arizona’s Family Sports Director Mark McClune has been a sports media staple in the Valley for nearly two decades. The host of “The Extra Point” (which you can catch every…

Every year there is a team, from really any classification, who rises up and scripts their own special chapter in the Arizona high school football season.  Talking with Sports360AZ.com teammate…

Winning a high school football state championship is one of the greatest accomplishments for any prep athlete. Winning four of them is essentially unheard of. Nate Polk raised four straight…