{"id":94982,"date":"2026-03-12T07:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=94982"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:30:09","slug":"the-ten-the-tim-peterson-edition-3-12-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=94982","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: The Tim Peterson Edition (3\/12\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_94983\" style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94983\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94983\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-12-at-7.33.22-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1356\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-12-at-7.33.22-AM.png 1356w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-12-at-7.33.22-AM-400x202.png 400w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-12-at-7.33.22-AM-70x35.png 70w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-12-at-7.33.22-AM-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-12-at-7.33.22-AM-150x76.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1356px) 100vw, 1356px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-94983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Ortega presenting Tim Peterson with his National Football Foundation Scholar Athletes Award. (2026 Community Service Award).\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(\u201cThe TEN\u201d is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in \u201cThe TEN\u201d)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1\u2014The National Football Foundation Scholar Athletes Awards Banquet, honored Mid Valley Sports\u2019 Tim Peterson for his over 25 years of service in the field of local sports coverage.<\/p>\n<p>2\u2014Peterson attended Arroyo High School\u2014As a freshman he wrestled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>3\u2014\u00a0No truth to the rumor Peterson was the inspiration for Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.<\/p>\n<p>4\u2014Reviewing Peterson\u2019s work at The Mid\u2026it is estimated that he was written, posted, added, and linked upwards of 15,000 articles, columns, and features. (Little League, prep football, Arena Football, College Football, NFL, Soccer, prep basketball\/baseball, college basketball\/baseball, softball, ABA basketball, Columns, Tens, Game Nights etc\u2026etc..)<\/p>\n<p>5\u2014Peterson\u2019s middle name is Shawn.<\/p>\n<p>6\u2014During his church softball career, Peterson broke in as a middle-infielder but was tagged with a weak arm and got relegated to second base. He was more of a dead pull hitter than Willie McCovey\u2014albeit with considerably less power.<\/p>\n<p>7\u2014On April 4, 1988, Peterson missed the second half of the Kansas-Oklahoma championship game because he had to go to work\u2014while his friends stayed at his pad and watched Danny Manning and the Jayhawks defeat the Sooners, 83-79.<\/p>\n<p>8\u2014Peterson defeated cancer in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>9\u2014Peterson has had two dogs, Jake &amp; Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>10\u2014Insight: If Peterson ever tells you, \u201cYeah, I\u2019ll meet you there.\u201d\u2026It means he\u2019s not coming.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Bonus&#8211;#11&#8212; On December 13, 2008, in freezing conditions Paraclete defeated Rosemead, 21-10 at Knight High School in the CIF Mid-Valley Division championship game. The weather was around thirty degrees, Peterson lowered his gloved hands to one of the fire heaters on the Panthers sideline&#8211;got distracted&#8211;raised his hands back up and all the finger coverings had been burned off&#8230;yet, he suffered no burns&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(\u201cThe TEN\u201d is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in \u201cThe TEN\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94982"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94995,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94982\/revisions\/94995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}