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Football: Markham is back in fold at Rialto

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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The brutally blunt Don Markham is officially back on the job as Rialto’s football coach as of Wednesday night after being unanimously approved by the Rialto Unified School District board, according to the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

‘I think it will get turned around,’ Markham told the newspaper of a program that has gone 1-9 in four of the last five seasons.

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Markham made waves in 2001 when he called his players ‘a bunch of jerks’ in an interview with The Times. He has 314 career victories and has won five Southern Section titles. He previously coached at Rialto in 2000-01, guiding the Knights to the only winning seasons in school history and the only playoff berths.

--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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