Penn State head coach James Franklin and his updated staff were busy this weekend. Penn State hosted a number of high school juniors for the latest junior day event on campus and that led to a number of players receiving scholarship offers to take home with them. It also yielded a new commitment to the Class of 2025 with the …
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Arizona running back Jonah Coleman transfers to Washington to join Jedd Fisch
Arizona football fans rejoiced on Saturday when they learned that quarterback Noah Fifita and receiver Tetairoa McMillan stayed in Tucson and refused to join former coach Jedd Fisch with the Washington Huskies. Arizona has done reasonably well in terms of retaining quality players for 2024 and its first Big 12 season under new coach Brent Brennan. However, some losses are …
Read More »Penn State offers Jotavion Pierce, a rising safety in the Class of 2025
Penn State was busy handing out scholarship offers over the weekend after hosting a number of potential Nittany Lions for a junior day event. One of the players receiving an offer this weekend was Jotavion Pierce, a rising safety out of Alabama. Pierce is a 6′-2″, 185-pound safety recruit in the Class of 2025 playing for Montgomery Catholic Prep in …
Read More »Athens-area football player re-commits to college team after end-of-season coaching shuffle
Jefferson senior linebacker Brian Senter is on track to play for Troy football next fall to play with the Trojans under recently hired coach Gerad Parker. There were, however, a few speed bumps in the road before this point. In mid-December, in the usual end-of-season shuffle, Troy lost its head coach Jon Sumrall and offensive coordinator Joe Bernardi. Senter was …
Read More »Landolfi brothers bring family affair to Archbishop Williams High football
Family and football. An alliteration with countless symmetries, the two words blend together effortlessly. It’s the perfect combination for brothers Mark, Chris and Matt Landolfi. “Growing up, I never watched a football game by myself. It was always a big deal with family, friends, relatives. It was chaos, but it was awesome every weekend,” said Chris Landolfi, the former head …
Read More »The curse of wide right came back to haunt the Bills against the Chiefs
Photograph: Al Bello/Getty Images For some Bills fans of a certain age, the ghost of Scott Norwood’s wide right 47-yard field goal in Super Bowl XXV and the three further Super Bowl losses that followed in successive years had begun to dwindle. After all, it’s a new era in Buffalo. They have a frequent shopper card to the NFL playoffs. …
Read More »Buccaneers benefit from missed call, score touchdown on next play
A big missed call went against the Lions late in the third quarter today. Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield was sacked for what should have been a loss of 11 yards, but the officials incorrectly ruled that Mayfield had thrown the ball away before he was down. Replays clearly showed that Mayfield’s leg touched the ground while he was still in …
Read More »As Josh Allen’s Bills fall to Patrick Mahomes’ Chiefs for third time in four playoffs, what’s next for Sean McDermott and Buffalo?
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Thirty-six minutes after the clock had expired, Josh Allen was still in uniform. Allen’s season was over, the Kansas City Chiefs (yes, them again) having outlasted his Buffalo Bills 27-24 on Sunday in a divisional-round playoff game at the Bills’ Highmark Stadium. The quarterback sat on the wooden stool by his locker. He alternated between staring …
Read More »Texas coach Rodney Terry apologizes for rant over ‘Horns Down’ gestures
Texas men’s basketball coach Rodney Terry has apologized for his postgame criticism of several Central Florida players who made “Horns Down” gestures following a game last Wednesday. “I had no intention of trying to show up anyone, or offend anyone in terms of what occurred at the end of that game,” Terry said Saturday after the Longhorns’ 75-73 upset of …
Read More »Lions hold off Bucs, set up NFC championship game vs. 49ers
The Detroit Lions are one win away from playing in the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Rick Osentoski) The Detroit Lions are going to San Francisco. Detroit built a late two-touchdown lead, then held off a late Tampa Bay Buccaneers rally with an interception of Baker Mayfield to secure a 31-23 win in the divisional round of the playoffs on Sunday. The …
Read More »Arizona star quarterback and receiver will go to Big 12, not Big Ten, in 2024
The news hit like a thunderbolt on Saturday in the midst of the NFL playoffs and college basketball action: Arizona football will retain its star quarterback and top wide receiver. New coach Brent Brennan has to be elated that Noah Fifita and Tetairoa McMillan will stay in Tucson for the 2024 season. They won’t follow Jedd Fisch to Seattle to …
Read More »Bills go up 10-3 on Josh Allen touchdown
The Bills running game is in high gear in the first half at Highmark Stadium. Quarterback Josh Allen ran five yards to cap an 11-play, 75-yard drive with a touchdown that put the Bills up 10-3 with 13:32 left in the first half. The Bills ran for 55 of the 75 yards on that drive and they have 94 rushing …
Read More »Former Georgia WR Dominick Blaylock declares for NFL draft
Former Georgia Bulldogs wide receiver Dominick Blaylock is declaring for the 2024 NFL draft. Blaylock transferred to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for the 2023 college football season. Now, the former four-star recruit will look to find success at the next level. Blaylock hauled in 21 receptions for 337 yards and two touchdowns in 2023 with Georgia Tech. The Marietta, …
Read More »2024 NFL Mock Draft: Buccaneers get Baker Mayfield another playmaker; Packers, Bills beef up offensive line
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Read More »Texas football lands commitment from four-star ATH Lance Jackson
Texas added another member to its 2025 recruiting class on Sunday. Four-star athlete Lance Jackson announced his commitment to Texas. The 6-foot-6, 260-pound playmaker becomes the second-highest ranked player in Texas’ 2025 class. According to On3, Jackson is rated the No. 8 athlete in the nation and No. 19 overall prospect in Texas. The Pleasant Grove product is expected to …
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