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Football: Markham on verge of return to Rialto

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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The most refreshingly honest coach in Southern California is back. Or at least it looks that way.

Don Markham, who in 2001 told me his Rialto football players were ‘a bunch of jerks,’ will return to the school that he led to the only two playoff berths in its history, according to the San Bernardino Sun. His quote made it into Sports Illustrated.

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Markham, 70, has won 309 games and five section titles during his career. After leaving Rialto following the 2001 season, he coached at Bloomington for six years before spending the 2008 season coaching American Sports University in San Bernardino, where he went 10-4.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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