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Ron Kantowski

Ron Kantowski

Ron Kantowski is a sports columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covering a variety of topics and the Las Vegas sports scene.
rkantowski@reviewjournal.com … @ronkantowski on Twitter. 702-383-0352

Coach carries on namesake’s tradition of sacrifice

Before he began winning football games and influencing lives as a football coach at Canyon Springs High School, Hernandez James “Hunkie” Cooper was arguably the best all-around football player in UNLV history. Cooper was given his first name in memory of the best friend of his father. His father and the man Cooper only knows as “Hernandez” made a pact that should one of them be killed in the Vietnam War, the survivor would name a son in memory of the other.

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