UCLA offensive lineman Niki Prongos sets set at the line of scrimmage during a game against Oregon at the Rose Bowl on Sept. 28. (Brooke Sutton / Getty Images) In high school, Niki Prongos would hear the play call and wonder what it meant. When he got to UCLA, the offensive lineman went over the playbook and heard teammates talking …

Abdul Salaam, a member of the Jets defensive line known as the New York Sack Exchange, has died at the age of 71. Salaam was a defensive tackle for the Jets from 1976 to 1983. Alongside Joe Klecko, Mark Gastineau and Marty Lyons, they became one of the NFL’s best defensive lines, and received their nickname initially from a fan’s …

Ligonier Valley’s John Jablunovsky finished tantalizingly close to the 1,000 rushing-yard milestone in this past week’s victory at Charleroi. The senior running back enters the Rams’ Week 8 game Friday at South Park (6-1) with 999 rushing yards this season. Ligonier Valley is 3-4. Area stat leaders “He’s one yard shy of 1,000. After the game, we didn’t realize how …

Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers insists that he didn’t get former Jets coach Robert Saleh fired. But this isn’t about what he did. It’s what he didn’t do. Rodgers didn’t keep Saleh from getting fired. Rodgers, by all appearances, didn’t even try. He didn’t seem to be particularly upset by the situation when discussing the situation with Pat McAfee and A.J. …

The Chip Kelly era at Oregon was a short but thrilling ride for Duck fans. Kelly, now the offensive coordinator for No. 2 Ohio State, came to Oregon for that same role on Mike Bellotti’s staff in 2007, and two years later he was named Bellotti’s replacement. From 2009 to 2012, Kelly and the Ducks captivated the college football world …

Rookie Cooper DeJean ready for bigger role after bye week originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Cooper DeJean looks back at his only preseason action and laughs. “It was ugly,” DeJean said on Wednesday. “I didn’t play well at all. I just feel like since that I’ve learned so much more about the defense and really all the positions and …

STILLWATER — After six games, Oklahoma State’s first bye week of the season is here. Let’s call it the mid-term break. And with that, let’s hand out some mid-term grades. This probably goes without saying, but mom won’t be hanging this report card on the fridge. The Cowboys are 3-3 overall and 0-3 in Big 12 play. They had climbed …

Defensive end Nick Bosa and the San Francisco 49ers play the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday Night Football tonight. (Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images) Week 6 of the 2024 NFL season kicks off tonight with a Thursday Night Football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks. Headed into tonight’s match, the San Francisco 49ers are 2-3, and the Seattle Seahawks …

Members of Maryland football’s defense might have forgiven, but they haven’t forgotten. On Oct. 28 last year, Northwestern stunned the Terps, 33-27. Wildcats quarterback Brendan Sullivan enjoyed a career day in passing yards (265) and threw two touchdown passes to hand Maryland its third of four straight losses and added stress to a potential bid for a bowl game appearance. …

(Tim Hubbard / Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles Times NFL writer Sam Farmer examines the matchups this week. Lines according to FanDuel Sportsbook (O/U = over/under). Record last week 10-4 (.714); season 45-33 (.577). Using point spreads with the scores Farmer predicted, the record against the spread last week would have been 8-6 (.571); season 40-37-1 (.520). Times Pacific. Off: …

Ezekiel Elliott’s NFL career has come full circle. The former Ohio State running back was selected fourth overall by the Dallas Cowboys in the 2016 NFL draft. He spent seven years there before joining the New England Patriots for a season and returned to Dallas in April as a free agent. Over that time, he’s recorded 9,002 rushing yards and …

Greg Wyshynski, ESPNOct 10, 2024, 07:00 AM ET CloseGreg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Coaching the Toronto Maple Leafs can change a person. Decades of playoff futility keep expectations excruciatingly unmet. The constant scrutiny from media and fans is enough to unnerve the confident and harden the affable. “I don’t know if ‘harden’ is the right word, but it’s …

Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will remain the starter this week, and coach Kevin Stefanski said he gave no consideration to benching him. “I know you can take out plays and look at that and there’s obviously plays that Deshaun wants back,” Stefanski said, via Daryl Ruiter of 92.3 The Fan. “There’s calls that I want back. That happens in the …

As we just learned during what was expected to be a relatively mundane week of college football games, some results are impossible to see coming even for the so-called experts. Your intrepid panel presses on, however, to a Week 7 slate featuring three Top 25 showdowns. Headlining the weekend is the first major test in its new conference for No. …

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens may be hit with a fine in the coming days. The NFL is investigating the explicit message that Pickens wrote on his eye black during their 20-17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night, according to ESPN’s Brooke Pryor. Pickens had the phrase “Open F***ing Always” written in silver across his eye black …