Richey is being honored for his play in high school, when he led Jayton to back-to-back titles in 1984 and 1985, playing running back and safety for a team that went 28-0 during their championship runs.
Loop Supt. Phil Mitchell, Richey’s coach at Jayton, told Dwight Heins at the Lamesa Press-Reporter that Richey was the finest six-man player he ever coached.
“In my opinion, Trey is the best all-around player of all time in six-man football,” he said. “He could do it all.
Richey was the defensive coordinator for the 1997 state champion Coyotes, and is the head basketball coach at Borden County.
Richey has earned admiration from rival coaches, as well.
“You’ve got to be well-prepared when you face Trey,” Ira head football coach Toby Goodwin said. “He’s well-respected by coaches, and he’s very organized and very competitive. Trey was a great athlete, and he’s carried that over, but he’s also a great friend, and that makes a difference when you face him. You like to see him, but you hate to coach against him.”
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Valentine’s Day is once again upon us, which means two things -- many of us will be lighter in the wallet come Monday and pitchers and catchers report for spring training in a couple of weeks.
Baseball recently has been rocked by the indictment of BALCO labs founder Victor Conti -- the personal trainer to slugger Barry Bonds, the best player in the game.
There is no evidence (wink, nudge) that Bonds has used steroids, and he wasn’t named in the indictment and subsequent arrest warrants.
But leave it to Major League Baseball, an organization so inept it makes Congress look like a synchronized swim team, to head into a new season with egg all over its face.
The sport’s ridiculously stupid drug policy has created this beast, and now the only thing that can possibly try to kill it is a federal indictment.
Couple that with the never-ending Pete Rose lunacy, and you have an(other) offseason where the biggest baseball stories come from the underbelly of the sport.
Instead of talking about hope springing eternal, or if the Rangers will have enough pitching to contend (they don’t) what baseball fans are getting hammered with is more bad news from the National Pastime.
But one bit of good news -- Alex Rodriguez swears he’s happy to be in Texas.
I for one have lost a lot of sleep wondering whether $252 million can make a man happy.
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