Brigham Young University football coach Bronco Mendenhall announced Thursday that BYU football jerseys would feature either “Tradition,” “Spirit” or “Honor” in the place of the players’ names.
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In a couple of weeks it’ll be football season again, and then Friday night at high school games it’ll be the three P’s again: pork, poi, pineapple.
Bobby Hauck follows the same routine for traveling to road games at UNLV that he did at Montana.
UNLV over the years has pursued players from Florida to Alaska to Hawaii, and coaches even have traveled to Canada and American Samoa looking for overlooked prospects. Now, under fourth-year coach Bobby Hauck, they are putting Finnish products on the roster.
When Tim Cornett was running up and down Houston high school football fields, Keith Whitely was in the stands watching.
Peyton Manning has starred in some silly commercials (“Cut that meat! Cut that meat!”), but his latest spot for DirecTV may top them all.
Tim Hauck is 46 and 2½ years younger than his brother, Bobby, but he arrives at UNLV with the sort of experience and clout that immediately earns the respect of those players he will now instruct as the team’s defensive coordinator. On paper, it’s not a good hire. It’s a terrific one.
Last year at this time, Robert Jameson was one of the student equipment managers for the UNLV football team. Now, he’s one of their wide receivers. That’s a pretty cool story.
Humanity rose above rivalry when football fans set aside their differences to root for a 5-year-old cancer survivor Ryan Encinas who scored a touchdown at a Cleveland Browns scrimmage.
The LVH Super Book stopped taking bets on Texas A&M University football games after ESPN reported the National Collegiate Athletic Association is investigating potential rules violations by Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Johnny Manziel.
Football players? Sonny, the football players we knew could run circles around those wimps who play today and then chew ’em up and spit ’em out before they even crossed the finish line.
Riley Cooper insists that he is sorry, that he is disgusted by his own words, that he is embarrassed and ashamed beyond belief.
Las Vegas Bowl tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday. The Dec. 21 game at Sam Boyd Stadium features a Pacific 12 Conference team against the top selection from the Mountain West.
The Philadelphia Eagles excused Riley Cooper from all team activities on Friday after the wide receiver was caught on video making a racial slur. Cooper said the last few days have been incredibly difficult and he will step away to seek counseling.