His songs are inspiring, and they really inspire young people. I like that he talks about the right things.

We have families who have relocated to the other side of town and some of them were big-time Roosevelt or Washington people and now their kid is going to be wearing the enemy jersey, so it's kind of funny. But we're just trying to get them to understand it doesn't matter. It's all a part of East Chicago.

That was the difference right there. They made that run and scored and we couldn't answer.

He had his helmet on, but I don't know if it was strapped right. We all loved him, and we're going to miss him.

We're stretched out to the max right now.

It was tough that CIF didn't give Apple much credit by sending them out to face Granite right off the bat. At the beginning of the year we wanted to win MRL and 20 games. But if you gave me a choice between an MRL title and a CIF title, I'd take CIF.