Corky has officiated high school football, basketball and baseball games as well as college baseball games for more than 40 years. He also served as assistant baseball coach for Hall of Fame Lewis-Clark State College baseball coach Ed Cheff where the Warriors won several NAIA national championships.
Corky arrived in Lewiston in the 1970s and played baseball at LCSC. He then played three years in Italy and was a member of the Italian National Team that won the European Championship in 1997. He was awarded a silver medal of honor from the Italian Olympic Federation.
Corky eventually returned to Lewiston and became an assistant coach at LCSC. While coaching, he began to official high school sports in District II. In all he has 46 years of officiating high school football and basketball, and more than 40 years of being a college baseball umpire at the JUC, NAIA and NCAA DI, DII and DIII levels, including 38 at the NCAA DI level.
He started officiating high school football in 1979 and became the District II football commissioner in 2017. In all, he has officiated 20 high school state championship games. He also started officiating high school basketball games in 1979 and has worked more than 20 state tournaments. He has served as the District II basketball commissioner since 2020.
In baseball, Corky has umpired at the college and high school level for 38 years, including American Legion regional and national tournaments, NCAA Junior College and NCAA DIII regionals and College World Series, and the NAIA regionals.
He has served as head groundskeeper at the NAIA World Series for more than 25 years. He also was the mayor of Lapwai for four years (2006-09) and served on the Lapwai School Board as chairman (1990-92).
Corky was inducted into the 2015 Shrewsbury High School Hall of Fame in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Most recently Fazio was named the 2025 Boys and Girls Club Volunteer of the Year for the LC Valley.