Legacy’s football team struggled to sustain drives Thursday night. It didn’t matter, thanks to Casey Hughes.
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Green Valley was a trendy pick as one of the area’s top teams when the high school football season began. After all, the Gators were coming off a 9-2 season and their first league title of the 2000s, with several key players returning.
Nothing outward indicates that Nick Saban is interested in leaving Alabama. Reports linking his name to Texas seem to indicate bad news for another coach, however.
Caleb Herring knows what fellow UNLV quarterback Nick Sherry is going through because he has been there himself.
Former NFL offensive lineman Brian Holloway initially thought the Twitter photos showing young people partying at his family’s second home in upstate New York were a hoax. Then he saw pictures of teenagers standing on the dining room table he bought with his Super Bowl bonus.
Stories are appearing in newspapers from Tampa to New York to Minneapolis. Sobering statistics are being compared. Panic has set in. Funerals are being planned.
UNLV football coach Bobby Hauck shouldn’t have any problem getting his players’ attention this week even with a lower-level opponent rolling into town.
Fresno State coach Tim DeRuyter didn’t anticipate having extra time to prepare for Boise State and certainly not under these circumstances.
The Pac-12 Conference has reprimanded the officials in Saturday night’s game between Wisconsin and Arizona State for their actions in the bizarre closing seconds.
With no quality quarterback to throw to him, wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald was a forgotten star during the Arizona Cardinals’ free-fall last season. He needed change, and it came in two forms.
UNLV was done, the football season was quickly vanishing, the Rebels getting completely outclassed by Central Michigan.
Like many football coaches, Bishop Gorman’s Tony Sanchez has a laminated sheet of paper listing his team’s offensive plays.
Not only does Chip Kelly speak as quickly as an auctioneer, the Philadelphia Eagles coach instructs his offense to play at high speed. Kelly probably eats breakfast and reads the newspaper in less than a minute.
Matt, Kelly and Tony are back with another round of picks and tips for this weekend’s biggest games.
A snake-bitten team last season, Wisconsin lost six one-possession games, including three in overtime. But 14 starters returned for new coach Gary Andersen, and the results have been better.
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