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Sit Down With the Daughters
Todd Merkow sits down with his two daughters — Madison and Sydney — across three conversations that trace the full arc of what youth sports can give, take, and leave behind.
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September 23, 2026
Soccer Dad: Chasing the Dream Without Losing the Joy
David Murray never set out to become a soccer dad.
November 26, 2025
The Dean of Arizona High School Sports: 40 Years of Watching Parents Get It Right — and Wrong
In Episode 7 of Be Valiant, Todd Merkow sits down with Kevin McCabe — a man Todd has known for nearly 30 years, going back to their days together at Fox Sports Arizona. Kevin is the host of the Kevin McCabe Show on Arizona Sports 98.7, a weekly radio program that brings high school athletes and coaches into the studio to be celebrated, not analyzed. He has been covering Arizona prep sports for more than 40 years, starting in Flagstaff in 1981 and working his way through Tucson and eventually Phoenix, where he covered everything from the Suns to the World Series to Charles Barkley's Finals run — and kept coming back to high school sports every time, because that is where his heart has always been. He is known across the state simply as the Dean of Arizona High School Sports.
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