The Great Falls High football team is looking to honor its past great teams early this upcoming season. The Bison football program is inviting all former players, coaches, and managers of state championship football teams and their families for a Night of Champions celebration on Thursday, Sept. 12 and Friday, Sept. 13. On the night of Sept. 12, all of …
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Jets’ Robert Saleh has high hopes for TE Jeremy Ruckert and his fourth year as head coach
Robert Saleh enters his fourth year as the Jets’ head coach with not a whole lot to show for it. However, he has high hopes that Year 4 can finally be the year that New York has been waiting for. Since 2021 when Saleh joined the team, Gang Green has gone 18-33 – never finishing above .500 and coming in …
Read More »Nebraska Football Countdown to Kickoff: No. 36 DB Blake Closman
The countdown to the start of Nebraska’s 2024 season is down to 36 days and in the player spotlight is Cornhuskers defensive back Blake Closman. The 5-foot-9, 195-pound cornerback is originally out of Elkhorn, Nebraska and was a standout safety and wide receiver. He eventually chose to walk on with the Huskers. After not appearing in any games during his …
Read More »Seahawks sign S Marquise Blair
Seattle has brought back a familiar face. The Seahawks announced on Friday that the club has signed safety Marquise Blair. Blair was a Seattle second-round pick back in 2019, but his tenure with the club was marred by injury. He played 14 games as a rookie but just eight games over the next two seasons before he was waived in …
Read More »Four-star 2026 safety Jamarrion Gordon flips commitment from Alabama football to UCF
Four-star class of 2026 safety Jamarrion Gordon has flipped his commitment from Alabama football to UCF, Gordon told On3 on Friday. Gordon had been committed to Kalen DeBoer and the Crimson Tide since May and was the first commitment in its 2026 class. The 5-foot-11, 185-pound Jackson, Alabama native is tabbed as the No. 10 prospect in Alabama within the …
Read More »Bengals sign UFL offensive player of the year Hakeem Butler
The UFL’s leading receiver will get another chance at an NFL job in Cincinnati. Hakeem Butler led the spring league with 652 yards while playing for St. Louis this year and the Bengals announced his signing on Friday afternoon. Butler was named the league’s offensive player of the year in recognition of his effort and he was also an All-XFL …
Read More »Florida State’s Odell Haggins embraces physicality, but here’s what he wants for D-line
Florida State football ended its first week of preseason practice in shoulder pads Friday. However, for Odell Haggins, the Seminoles’ associate head coach and defensive tackles coach, contact and physicality are the last things on his mind for his interior group. Haggins’ main focus this week was to have his defensive linemen playing fundamentally sound football while matching its physicality. “We’re …
Read More »Report: Free agent CB Jerry Jacobs plans to sign with Rams
Free agent cornerback Jerry Jacobs plans to sign with the Rams, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports. Jacobs had visited several teams this offseason, including the Falcons, Jaguars, Panthers and Vikings. The Rams lost cornerback Derion Kendrick to a torn anterior cruciate ligament Thursday, and Darious Williams injured a hamstring. Jacobs signed with the Lions after going undrafted in 2021 and …
Read More »LB Corey Amos commits to Ole Miss football, re-joins Lane Kiffin’s recruiting class
OXFORD — Corey Amos is back in the Ole Miss football fold. Just over a month after the three-star linebacker decommitted from the Rebels and re-opened his recruitment, Amos once again pledged to play for Ole Miss on Friday in a social media post. “Ain’t no other place I’ll rather be,” he wrote. The news marks a good start to …
Read More »NFLPA wants to restrict media access to locker room
New NFL Players Association executive director Lloyd Howell hasn’t picked many fights with the NFL. He’s sort of picking one with the media. As explained by Mark Maske of the Washington Post, Howell wants to restrict media access to the locker room. “What I was hoping to achieve on behalf of the membership is . . . to accurately articulate …
Read More »Metamora senior linebacker commits to play football at Western Illinois
Metamora’s Cameron Nickel (26) and teammate Eden Cote share a moment after a tackle against Decatur MacArthur in the first half of their Class 5A first-round state football playoff game Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023 in Metamora. PEORIA — Metamora linebacker Cam Nickel has a final prep season ahead of him, but he also knows where he’ll play college football in …
Read More »Marshon Lattimore leaves practice with a hip flexor injury
Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore left practice with an injury Thursday. Coach Dennis Allen said after practice that Lattimore injured his hip flexor, an injury Lattimore has dealt with previously, per John Sigler of USA Today. Lattimore also injured his hip flexor at the 2017 Scouting Combine. Allen offered no details about the severity of Lattimore’s injury. Lattimore has missed a …
Read More »Opinion: Ryan Day is delusional about recent Ohio State losses to Michigan football
It was cold. And snowy. And players had the flu. And what took place in the dark was set to come to light. And it was just a few plays. And the quarterback was the issue. And it was a few more plays. Yada, yada, yada. Whether it’s from Ohio State fans or head coach Ryan Day himself, there hasn’t …
Read More »Packers and QB Jordan Love agree to record 4-year, $220 million contract extension
By the end of last season, it became clear the Green Bay Packers felt they had their next answer at quarterback. And with that, they had to pay their quarterback. Jordan Love had a breakout in the second half of last season and led the Packers, not just to the postseason, but to a road playoff win over the Dallas …
Read More »NCAA, college leaders file landmark agreement in antitrust cases; here’s what was settled and what’s next
For decades, the NCAA and college sports leaders went to great lengths to both avoid court and congressional intervention. Now, in the wake of a landmark settlement agreement, the courts hold significant oversight over the industry’s new model and only Congress can prevent what some college leaders see as an inevitable end — athlete employment. The NCAA and power conferences …
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