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With Host Jeff Fisher
Jeff's
broadcasting career began at the age of 14 at WEST-AM in Easton, Pennsylvania.
In a career that has spanned over 35-years, he's worked in every aspect of
the business, including being the General Manager of the Allentown Ambassadors
baseball team of the independent Northern League.
After anchoring and reporting on major sporting events from the Olympics to the World Series to the Super Bowl, Jeff is turning to his passion of high school football. He is creator and Editor-in-Chief of High School Football America. He is also currently the host and producer of the National High School Coaches Association radio show called the NHSCA Sports Hour.
An award-winning journalist, Jeff anchored at Fox Sports Net for the Chicago, Bay Area and Ohio regions. While in the Windy City, Fisher reported on all Chicago professional and college teams, plus served as a pre, post and in-game host on Fox Sports Net's Emmy-award winning broadcasts for the Cubs and White Sox.
Jeff also worked as a Co-host and pit reporter on several different motor sports programs on Speed Channel and The Outdoor Channel.
Before arriving in Chicago, Jeff was the Sports Director at WFMZ-TV in the Allentown/Philadelphia market.
Fisher was the creator, executive producer and host of The Big Ticket. The weekly, 60-minute high school football wrap-up show won him the Associated Press Best Sportscast in Pennsylvania Award in 2000.
Fisher was also the creator and host of more than a dozen half-hour sports specials featuring international superstars such as Mario Andretti and Larry Holmes. Fisher was also named Media Person of the Year in 1999 by the Colonial League and won the prestigious Sixth Man Award at Lehigh University.
Jeff is an all-around sports fan, who grew-up in Easton. His fondest memories are watching his best friend Marty Nothstein win a gold medal in the 2000 Olympics in Australia and a silver medal in the 1996 games in Atlanta.
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Before
St. Paul's Episcopal School
8th grader Ostin McPherson
makes Sports Illustrated's Faces in the
Crowd next week, his coach
Jimmy Perry joins
High School Football America
host Jeff Fisher to talk about McPherson's 204 yard rushing game on October
28th. Also on this edition of High School Football America, Fisher talks
with Larry "Bud"Wright
of Sheridan High School,
who became Indiana's all-time winningest coach with his 369th victory last
Friday. Fisher also chats with
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review sports writer
Jason Cato, who
discusses his recent article on the spread of gambling into high school
football. Plus, Dr. Jarrod Spencer
of Mind of the Athlete
joins Fisher to talk about an incident at at Memphis-area high school last
week that caused Collierville ( |
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In this episode of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher talks with MaxPreps' Steve Spiewak about what should be a record-setting weekend ahead. Also on the show is Dan Jones, head coach at Gaffney High School in South Carolina. The Indians are currently ranked #6 in the nation by MaxPreps. Gaffney has won the most South Carolina state high school football championships. Jeff will then be joined by Carm DeFrancesco, head coach at Mt. Carmel HS in Pennsylvania. Last Friday, Mt. Carmel became just the fifth school in America to win 800 games. The show closes with Armwood (FL) head coach Sean Callahan. Friday, Callahan's team, that is ranked #2 this week by MaxPreps, will face unbeaten Plant HS. For more info go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com |
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High School Football America host Jeff Fisher is joined by Johnathan Gray of Aledo High School in Texas, who is the state's all-time leader in touchdowns. He also has a shot at becoming the country's leading rusher before he leaves for the University of Texas. Ken Hall of Sugar Land High School in Texas is the current record holder with 11,232 yards in his career between 1950-53. Gray is averaging almost 14-and-a-half yards a carry this season. Also on the show is Paul Knox, head coach at Dorsey High School in Los Angeles. The Dons are second to only Long Beach Polyin producing NFL players. Jeff's final guest is Stan Sexton, head coach at Phoebus High School in Virginia. Phoebus currently owns the longest active win streak in the country at 52 straight victories. For more information, please go to www.highschoolfootballamerica.com |
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High School Football America
host Jeff Fisher talks with Kent Roosevelt High School's Ryan Anderson
and his coach John Nemec about Ryan's battle with a rare form of bone
cancer that derailed his promising football career before his senior season.
Not only was Anderson one of the top offensive lineman in Ohio, but he was
also ranked in the Top 35 nationally. Also on the show is Brianna Amat
of Pinckney High School in Michigan. On September 30th, Amat not only kicked
her team's game winning field goal, but she was also named Homecoming Queen
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Recording-setting high school quarterbacks take
center stage on this edition of High School Football America with
host Jeff Fisher. First, Dylan Sheffield of Wichita Falls
High School in Texas talks about his record-breaking performance on
September 30th when he threw for 683 yards and seven touchdowns to set a new
Texas state record for yards passing in a game. Then Fisher talks with
Sunrise Christian Academy head football Trey Hall, who discussed
his record breaking QB Zach Howell, who's thrown for nearly 2,500
yards and 24 TDs in six games. Finally, High School Football America's
In the Huddle interview this week is with St. Edward
(Ohio) head coach Rick Finotti, who talks about his team's big game
Saturday against top-ranked Don Bosco Prep from New Jersey. The
defending Ohio Division I champion Eagles enter the game ranked #9 in the
nation and riding a 21-game win streak. #1 Don Bosco Prep owns a 39-game
win streak. For more info, go to
www.highschoolfootballamerica. |
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For the second week in a row, High School Football America host Jeff Fisher talks with a head coach who just won his 400th game. Bob Paroli of Seventy-First HS in North Carolina talks with Fisher about his 400th, plus looks back at his 54 years as a football coach. Paroli is the 9th coach in high school football history to reach 400 wins. Also on the show: Steve Spiewak of MaxPreps.com, who looks at which team has the best shot at winning the 2011 national championship and Ben Enos of the Mercury News in the Bay Area, who talks about Friday's night's national showdown between national powers De La Salle (CA) and St. Thomas Aquinas (FL). |
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The Bolles School's Corky Rogers, Florida's winningest head football coach, joins High School Football America host Jeff Fisher on this edition of HSFA to talk about his 400th career victory on September 9th. Also on the show: Trinity High School (Louisville, KY) head football coach Bob Beatty, who talks about his team's Friday night showdown with St. Xavier of Cincinnati; Mark Cook, athletic director at Herrington High School in Kansas, talking about his football team's "Win One for the Gipper" comeback after learning of death of its head football coach Bud Peterson last Friday while he was in the hospital; and Byron Jenson of the High School Rudy Awards. Learn how to nominate an inspirational player at www.highschoolfootballrudyawards.com. |
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High School Football America is LIVE in Lowell, Michigan for this edition of America's premiere national high school football talk show. Host Jeff Fisher is joined by Theresa Beachum of Lowell High School's Pink Arrow Pride football game, that in three short years has raised $750,000 to help community residents in their battle with cancer. At the heart of the game is the Lowell Red Arrows football team wearing pink uniforms to bring awareness to the cancer journey being walked by members of the tiny town of 4,000 outside of Grand Rapids. The home crowd supports the cause by wearing pink t-shirts to the game that turns entire football stadium into a sea of pink. Lowell quarterback Gabe Dean, the 2010 Division 1-2 Player of the Year, also joins Fisher to talk about his third game in a pink jersey. Also on the show is Gehrig Dieter of South Bend's Washington High School, who last week set a national record with 437 yards receiving. |
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Pennsylvania and Ohio take
centerstage on this edition of High School Football America.
Host Jeff Fisher talks with Pittsburgh Central Catholic head
football coach Terry Totten about his top-ranked Vikings' showdown
with Archbishop Wood of Philadelphia on ESPN2 on Sunday. PCC is
ranked #1 in Pennsylvania's 4A classification, while Wood is ranked #1 in
3A. Then Fisher takes his listeners to the Cincinnati-area for a chat with
Colerain head football coach Tom Bolden, whose team is
coming-off a big win over Cocoa, Florida. The Cardinals beat the
three-time defending Florida champs in a nationally-televised game on August
28th. The show wraps-up with photographer Morgan Tyree, who has just
released a book called Temples...Where the Game is Played. Tyree has
taken incredible photos of six-and-eight man high school football games in
Montana and Wyoming. For more info on his book, go to
http://six-eight-eleven. |
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8-25-2011 Show |
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In this episode of High School Football America, host Jeff Fisher takes you on a cross-country journey with stops in Alaska, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Texas. First, Jeff talks with Phil Stambaugh, head coach at Pius X HS in Roseto, Pennsylvania. Pius X is the smallest high school in America playing 11-man football. Then he talks with Mark Tabb, author of the book The Sacred Acre...the Ed Thomas Story. Thomas, who was the head football coach at Aplington-Parkersburg HS in Iowa, was murdered in 2009 by a former player. Jeff's third interview is with Jason Caldarera of Service High School in Anchorage, Alaska. Service and Leilehua (Hawaii) opened the 2011 regular season in the Fire and Ice Bowl on February 11th in Hawaii. The show wraps-up with a conversation with Tony Heath, head football coach at Pearland HS, outside of Houston. Pearland is the defending Texas 5A Division I champion. |
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America's winningest high school football coaches join host Jeff Fisher on this edition of High School Football America. John McKissick, head coach at Summerville High School in South Carolina, talks about his 586 wins in 59 years as the leader of the Green Wave, while J.T. Curtis, who's second on the all-time wins list, reminisces about his 492 wins in 40+ years at John Curtis Christian School in Louisiana. Also on the show is Rashid Ghazi of North Shore Films, who discusses his documentary on Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan called Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football. |
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Chris
Shields, the first-year head football coach at Joplin
High School in Missouri,
joins High School
Football America host Jeff
Fisher to discuss how his team and the Joplin community are recovering
from the May 22nd tornadoes that devastated the town, destroyed the high
school and left 160 people dead. Jeff also talks with Jess
Simpson, head coach at Buford
High School in Georgia.
Buford is
ranked #1 by MaxPreps.com in
its Preseason Small Schools Top 25 Poll. Jeff's final guest is Dr.
Lamar Hasbrouck, who discusses the four heat-related deaths on high
school football practice fields during the recent heat wave and what can be
done to prevent such tragedies in the future.
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Two legendary coaches join Jeff Fisher on this edition of High School Football America. Gary Rankin of Alcoa High School in Tennessee talks about his Hall of Fame career that has seen him win nine state football titles and Greg Toal of Don Bosco Prep looks back on his 12-years of building the Ramsey, New Jersey school into a national high school football power. Also on the show: Maty Mauk, senior quarterback at Kenton High School in Ohio. Mauk is poised to break several national career passing records this season, including career passing yards, total offense and touchdown passes. |
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7-21-2011 Show Inaugural broadcast On High School Football America's inaugural show, host Jeff Fisher talks with Brad Igou, head football coach at Barrow High School in Barrow, Alaska and his assistant Brian Houston about the start of the 2011 high school football season on July 26th in the country's 49th State. Barrow is the only school playing 11-man football above the Arctic Circle. Also on the show: Steve Spiewak of MaxPreps.com, who talks about his Preseason Top 25 Early Contenders Poll; Scott Young, head football coach of West Rowan High School in Mt. Ulla, North Carolina, whose team has won three straight 3-A state titles and owns a 46-game win streak; and Brandon Sheppard, Executive Director of the National Select 7-on-7 Championship. |