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Parris, Gonzales Return to Sugar Skulls Broadcast for 2022

March 8, 2022 - Indoor Football League (IFL)
Tucson Sugar Skulls News Release


TUCSON - The Tucson Sugar Skulls are proud to announce their broadcast team for the 2022 Indoor Football League season. The Sugar Skulls' broadcast team will feature Tucson native and KGUN 9 News anchor, Pat Parris, who returns as the Play-by-play Broadcaster, and Fox Sports 1450 AM's Jay Gonzales as the Color Commentator.

Pat Parris of KGUN 9 News will return to the Sugar Skulls for his third season as the team's play-by-play broadcaster. A native of Tucson, Parris is a Sabino High School alum, who went to the University of Arizona, before transferring to Drake University, which he graduated from with a Broadcast News degree. Parris is a four-time Regional Emmy Award winner and 30-year veteran to the broadcast industry.

Jay Gonzales of Fox Sports 1450 AM will join the Sugar Skulls for his second straight season as the team's color commentator. Gonzales previously worked in the Tucson Sugar Skulls front office during the team's inaugural 2019 season. Having been involved in the Tucson sports scene for 40 years through reporting and media operations of major sporting events, Gonzales currently co-hosts "Eye on the Ball," a sports talk radio show, on the Sugar Skulls' radio flagship station, Fox Sports 1450 AM. Gonzales, also a Tucson native, graduated from Sahuaro High School and earned a journalism degree from the University of Arizona.

Gonzales will also be co-hosting the Sugar Skulls' Coaches Show on StreamYard every Wednesday, with head coach Dixie Wooten and a bevy of exciting guests rotating throughout the season.

The returning dynamic duo of Parris and Gonzales will call Tucson Sugar Skulls 2022 home games, which will be televised locally on Cox

Yurview, channel 7 as well as simulcast to the Sugar Skulls' radio flagship, Fox Sports 1450 AM, foxsports1450.iheart.com and the iHeartRadio app.

All Sugar Skulls 2022 regular-season games will be available to stream on the IFL's YouTube channel for fans outside of the Tucson market. The Sugar Skulls' 2022 season will kick off on Sunday, March 27 at Las Vegas, with their first home game set to take place on Saturday, April 9 against the San Diego Strike Force.



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