Sports Briefs

Wright is a former sports information director at Glendale college, and has worked for almost 30 years with the Seattle Seahawks in administration. He’s worked in the last 20 Super Bowls, helping to coordinate media relations.

The 1959 men’s track and field team won the first state championship in school history and was coached by Ed Tucker, who was inducted into the hall of fame in 2003 as an outstanding coach.

Among the members of the team were Burbank’s Frank Kallam and Gene Zubrinski and John Mallery Burroughs.

A group is looking for Burroughs and Burbank football players from the 1970s for a get-together next month.

There will be a special area near the west end zone at Memorial Field set aside for the group at the Nov. 9 homecoming game pitting Burbank and Burroughs.

There will be a get-together at Viva Restaurant on Riverside Drive following the game.

The 1970s was the first decade that the local teams started reaping the benefits from the Burbank Vikings Tackle Football program. Gene Harmon was a key figure who helped start the program.

For more information, contact Nolan Day at twoday@sbcglobal.net

Athletes who think they have the basketball skills to play on the professional level are invited to try out for the American Basketball Assn.’s Pasadena Push.

The team will hold a series of free-agent tryout camps beginning this weekend. Registration is from 8-9:15 a.m. and camp will start promptly at 9:30. Late registration will be held until noon.

The tryouts will be today, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. There is a $100 registration fee. Players who are chosen to compete for the team will be refunded the registration fee.

The camp will be held at Robinson Park Gym in Pasadena (1081 Fair Oaks Ave).

The team is owned by Compton native Donye Mitchell and coached by Otis Hailey, a former coach of the ABA’s Calgary Drillers and Dragones de Tijuana.

For more information, call (626) 744-7330.