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The Las Vegas Raiders have held their first two training-camp practices without running back Josh Jacobs, and coach Josh McDaniels doesn’t know when the NFL’s 2022 rushing leader will be back with the team.Las Vegas used its franchise tag to prevent Jacobs from becoming a free agent in March. The deadline for the team and ball-carrier to work out a multi-year deal to replace the franchise-tag tender ...

LARAMIE — July marks the unofficial start of talking season for college football.Players, coaches and media members gathered for two days during this week’s Mountain West Media Days in Las Vegas, with plenty of chatter from all 12 teams in the conference about the upcoming season. Preseason polls and an All-MW list were released to kick off the event at the Circa Resort.The University of Wyoming was ...

Basketball may have been Jay Harper’s first love, but his future currently involves locking down opposing offenses for the University of Wisconsin football program.Harper, a two-sport athlete at Valley High School in Alabama, announced his verbal commitment to coach Luke Fickell and the program last month. He will leave his prep career as a champion as the Rams’ boys basketball team captured the Alabama ...

Sixth in a position-by-position series looking at the 2023 Wisconsin Badgers football team.MADISON – One of the questions Mike Brown faced shortly after taking over as Wisconsin’s wide receivers coach involved personnel.What is the minimum number of players you want available each week to execute the game plan?Brown’s answer: Six.Based on the team’s 15 spring practices, Brown should have more than ...

MADISON – Bret Bielema came close in 2006.Gary Andersen gave it a strong run in 2013.Paul Chryst did the same in 2015.All three had Wisconsin in position to challenge for a Big Ten title in their first season as UW's head coach, only to fall short.Can Luke Fickell break through in his first season as UW’s head coach and lead the Badgers to the their first West Division title since 2019 and their first ...

The gap between an Alamo Bowl win and a playoff berth is difficult to measure.In his debut season in Seattle, Kalen DeBoer flipped the flaming remains of a 4-8 roster into an 11-2 revelation.But this program has greater goals.Namely, Washington covets a return to the Pac-12 Championship Game (for the first time since 2018) and the College Football Playoff (for the first time since 2016). And while ...

And it’s the appreciation for the chance to finish up their time in school closer to home at Virginia.“I really value being able to represent my state in the best way possible and I feel like it was time,” cornerback Malcolm Greene, a former standout at Highland Springs, said last week about his move to depart Clemson and join the Cavaliers earlier this summer.“I was hoping UVa would be in the bunch ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — This close to the beginning of training camp, there wasn’t time to restock the roster.Virginia coach Tony Elliott couldn’t replace the depth the Cavaliers lost at their quarterback spot following Jay Woolfolk’s choice two weeks ago to leave the football program in order to concentrate on his baseball.“It’s tough because there’s not guys out there that you can go and bring into the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — He attempted previously to recruit his buddy, but was unsuccessful the first time around.So, when Boston College quarterback Emmett Morehead took another crack at luring offensive lineman Logan Taylor to Chestnut Hill, the signal-caller said he knew he wasn’t going to come up empty again.Morehead and Taylor were teammates at Episcopal High School in Northern Virginia. The 6-foot-6 ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – The UTEP football team opened up its fall camp ahead of the 2023 college football season at Glory Field on Thursday.First @UTEPFB fall practice for the 2023 season is underway. It’s practice 1 of 25 this fall before UTEP opens up its season with a CUSA showdown against Jacksonville State. pic.twitter.com/TPhgoLuxpq— Sam Guzman (@SamGuzmanTV) July 27, 2023UTEP hit the ground ...