Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush, broadcast great Jerry Coleman and legendary surfer Rob Machado have been selected to be inducted into the Breitbard Hall of Fame, the San Diego Sports Association announced Tuesday.
The Class of 2020 will be honored at the annual Salute to the Champions on Feb. 12 at the downtown Marriott Marquis & Marina.
Bush, from Helix High, won the Heisman in 2005 while playing at USC, although he forfeited the award in 2010 amid an investigation into illegal recruiting of players at USC that ultimately led to severe sanctions against the university.
Bush was the second pick in the 2006 NFL Draft by the New Orleans Saints and played the first five years of an 11-year NFL career for the club. He was a member of the Super Bowl XLIV championship team after the 2009 season.
His most productive years came in 2011-12 for Miami and 2013 for Detroit. He had more than 1,250 yards from scrimmage in each of those seasons and scored 22 touchdowns. Now 34, Bush works as a football analyst for Fox Sports.
Coleman was the voice of the Padres from 1972 until his death at age 89 in 2014, save the one year (1980) he managed the club. He played second base for the New York Yankees from 1949-57, winning Rookie of the Year and four World Series rings.
He was known as “The Colonel,” a reference to his being a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps, and was the only Major League Baseball player to see combat in two wars. He flew combat missions in World War II and the Korean War.
In 2005 Coleman was honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame with the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence. He also was inducted into the Padres Hall of Fame in 2001 and the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2007.
Machado, 46, was born in Australia but his family moved to Cardiff when he was 3 and he later attended San Dieguito High. He began surfing and in 1986 won the U.S. Amateur Surfing Championships. In 1992 he turned pro and was named Rookie of the Year on the Professional Surfing Association of American Tour. He was ranked among the world’s top 10 surfers for 11 straight years and won 12 Championship Tour events.
In 2000 Machado was inducted into the Surfer’s Hall of Fame. Over the past two decades, he has continued to travel the world surfing, while also playing guitar in bands, deg his own surfboards and running the Rob Machado Foundation, which is dedicated to reducing plastic waste in the ocean. Just last week he opened Rob Machado’s Salty Garage, a small shop on South Coast Highway in Encinitas that’s part man cave, part retail shop, part museum and part community hangout.
