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SATURDAY • JANUARY 12, 2013
NFL DIVISIONAL
PLAYOFFS KICK OFF
D3 • The 49ers’ Colin
Kaepernick will face stern
test; Peyton Manning’s
rebound reaches new heights
for the Broncos.
CHARGERS BEGIN INTERVIEWS FOR HEAD COACH
Former Bears coach Smith speaks Friday with club;
Whisenhunt, Arians expected in the next few days
Telesco was hired Wednesday.
More interviews are expected, with ex-Cardinals coach Ken
Whisenhunt today and Colts
offensive coordinator Bruce
Arians scheduled for Monday,
a source said.
The Chargers also have been
linked with Bengals offensive co-
ordinator Jay Gruden, younger
brother of ESPN commentator
and former Buccaneers coach
Jon Gruden.
Bradley, 46, would be a first-
Tom Telesco didn’t wait long
to hold his first head coach interviews.
Seahawks defensive coordi-
nator Gus Bradley reportedly
interviewed with the Chargers
general manager and his selection team Thursday night, and
on Friday they interviewed former Bears coach Lovie Smith.
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MICHAEL GEHLKEN • U-T
SEE CHARGERS • D4
D4 • Don Coryell, John Lynch
not among finalists for consideration to Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Bruce Arians, Lovie Smith and Ken
Whisenhunt (left to right) are among
those interviewing for head coach.
No. 10-ranked San Ysidro’s
lineup too tall in win over
league rival Sweetwater
Hall passes on
Coryell, again,
leaving Fouts
in a foul mood
Dan Fouts doesn’t know
whether to have a drink or
say a prayer.
Maybe after the news
from Canton, Ohio, Fouts
does both.
The Chargers’ Hall of
Fame quarterback wasn’t
under center Friday, but
he absorbed a hit.
Don Coryell, his beloved
Chargers coach whose
DNA is on every passing attack at all levels of
football, was passed over
by Hall of Fame voters.
Coryell didn’t advance as a
finalist.
“I’m (ticked),” Fouts
said.
Knowing Fouts, you
realize “ticked” wasn’t his
word of choice. Knowing
Fouts, you realize he’ll
keep working to overcome
the injustice of Coryell not
being among the game’s
greats.
“Until,” Fouts said, “I
draw my last breath.”
Here’s where we draw
the line back to the
column’s first sentence.
We’ll let Fouts explain.
When Fouts was enshrined in 1993, Coryell
presented him. But the
induction isn’t what Fouts
remembers most.
“We sat on the back of
a convertible for the Hall
of Fame parade and the
feeling is overwhelming
because a quarter of a million people are all dressed
in their favorite team’s
jerseys, yelling and clapping for you,” Fouts said.
“It’s like five miles long and
goes by all the businesses
in Canton, the old-folks’
home, the bars and the
churches.
“I’ll never forget Coach
saying, ‘They cheer a lot
louder in front of the bars
than they do in front of the
churches.’ ”
With Coryell, that observation likely came with his
mischievous grin, the one
implying he knew something you didn’t. Much like
Fouts’ dilemma: he played
for an innovator many saw
from a distance.
“But how can you watch
a game today and not wonder, ‘How did we get to this
point?’ ” Fouts said. “It’s
because of him.”
Fouts mentions quarterbacks throwing for
5,000 yards and receivers
nearing 2,000 yards. And
how the NFL embraces Coryell’s aerial attack, or as
known to locals, Chargers
circa, 1978-1986.
SEE PARIS • D4
DENNIS LIN • U-T
NATIONAL CITY
Layup. Layups. More layups.
They were seen all over the
court, occasionally interrupted by
a 3-pointer, rarely interrupted by an
overmatched defense.
San Ysidro High
appeared
to score
San Ysidro
from every point
on the floor, outmuscling and outsprinting a smaller
Sweetwater team
Sweetwater in its own gym in
an 87-77 boys basketball victory Friday night.
“I don’t think
there’s many teams
in the county that have our combination of size and speed,” coach Terry
Tucker said after his Cougars improved to 13-5, including 3-0 in the
South Bay League.
Speedy, shifty Ronald Steward led
the victors with 22 points, but they
also got 16 from 6-foot-5 Orlando Quionoes, 14 from 6-5 John Crowder and
another 14 from 6-4 Keeko Sinegal.
“That was the best I’ve seen a San
Ysidro team play down low as far as
pounding the ball inside,” Sweetwater coach Jesse Aguirre said. “I’ve
never seen them pound the ball like
that, like they did tonight. And they
needed to because we’re not as big as
them. They did a great job.”
Aguirre’s tallest player, Jose Nava,
stands 6-2. San Ysidro, ranked No. 10
in the county, started three players at
least two inches taller than that.
“They killed us on the offensive
boards,” Aguirre said. “Us missing
87
77
SEE PREPS • D6
AROUND THE COUNTY
D6 • Point guard’s clutch play
leads Mission Hills over Torrey Pines.
D6 • Monte Vista continues its
dominance in Grossmont Valley play.
D6 • St. Augustine gets aggressive
in Western League win over Lincoln
U-T TV PREP SHOW
TODAY AT 11 A.M.
Co-hosts Lisa Lane and Don Norcross
show highlights and interview the
athletes on Cox Ch. 114, AT&T U-verse
Ch. 17/1017HD and UTTV.com
San Ysidro’s John Crowder goes up for a shot over Sweetwater’s Spencer Mattox.
Crowder finished with 14 points, while Mattox scored a game-high 33. EARNIE GRAFTON • U-T
NO PICNIC FOR AZTECS AFTER HEARTBURN WIN
Colorado St. enters game
with seven-game winning
streak, a week to prepare
MARK ZEIGLER • U-T
The bus left the Save Mart Center at Fresno State about 11:15
p.m. The San Diego State players
reclined their seats, pulled their
hoodies tight over their heads, put
on their headphones and drifted off
to sleep.
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The Aztecs coaches? They
popped open their laptops and
started watching tape of Colorado
State.
The bus rolled down Highway 99,
south on Interstate 5, through the
Tejon Pass with snow just starting to fall, through a sleepy Los
Angeles, finally arriving at Viejas
Arena at 4:27 a.m. Associate head
coach Brian Dutcher shut his laptop, drove home and slept for a few
hours. Woke up and watched another CSU game tape.
Just another day in the Mountain
No. 16 Aztecs
vs. Colorado State
When: 5 p.m. today at Viejas
Arena
On the air: NBCSN; 600-AM,
101.5-FM
West, where you scale one peak
only to see a higher one looming in
front of you.
The Aztecs ground out a tough
65-62 win at Fresno State on
Wednesday night. Now they get
two practices to prep for today’s 5
p.m. tipoff at Viejas Arena against
a 13-2 Colorado State team that
has won seven straight, has a new
coach with new offensive sets and
had a full week to prepare because
it had a bye Wednesday.
One practice was an abbreviated
workout Thursday night in which
players barely broke a sweat.
The other was Friday, which also
was short being the day before a
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