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Jul 26, 2023 Updated 14 hrs agoFour-star cornerback Cai Bates, a native of Orlando, Florida, committed Wednesday night to LSU.Bates is the No. 107 overall player and No. 11 cornerback in the country, according to the 247Sports composite rankings, making him the second-highest ranked prospect in LSU's 2024 class behind top 100 safety Dashawn McBryde.Bates chose LSU over Florida State, Tennessee, Alabama ...

Jul 26, 2023 Updated 13 hrs agoWhen he spoke to the Baton Rouge Rotary Club last year for the first time — a Rotary Club luncheon is the traditional last speaking engagement for an LSU football coach before preseason camp begins — Brian Kelly wore glasses.He was shielding an eye infection at the time. This time, Wednesday afternoon before a typically packed house of hundreds in the South Stadium Club ...

At the beginning of preseason camp last year, LSU had to figure out its offensive line. The Tigers nearly started from scratch, and other than freshman left tackle Will Campbell, no one had a clear role.Players moved around with unsettled competitions at almost every spot. Garrett Dellinger, who landed at guard, tried playing center for the first time. Anthony Bradford, another future guard, took snaps ...

Jul 27, 2023 Updated 7 hrs agoAll-American 2011-12All-SEC 2011Of all the stars that came out of the 2011 LSU team that reached the BCS National Championship Game — players like Tyrann Mathieu, Odell Beckham Jr., Morris Claiborne and Sam Montgomery — the Tigers’ punter from down under may have been the most unlikely one of all.Left-footed Australian Brad Wing became something of an off-brand sensation ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The University of Louisville is still on a collision course. The caveat is the Cardinals will be crashing their way into the ACC football championship game.The late Howard Schnellenberger's vision for the program he once coached: “The University of Louisville is on a collision course with the national championship. The only variable is time."The variable for the Cards is no longer ...

9-11 minutes 7/27/2023At his first major outing during college football’s 2023 “talking season,” Mark Stoops offered a rosy assessment of the Kentucky program he leads.“I feel very good about the program,” Stoops said at SEC Media Days. “I feel good about the new additions in the players that we brought in to help us with the current roster, the nucleus that we have. I love the coaching staff.”Worry ...

18-23 minutes 7/27/2023No one took Scott Drew seriously when he arrived at Baylor at the age of 32 and boldly said that he planned to win a national championship with the Bears.The idea, in 2003, of then-lowly Baylor winning a ring, especially with an unproven men’s basketball coach, seemed impossible. Many assumed it would take a miracle worker just to make that team relevant in the Big 12, let alone ...

You have to have seen it by now.The suit. The shoes. The chain with an Apple Watch pendant playing his highlights that rests just below his own “JD6” logo.Kansas football quarterback Jalon Daniels was already going to be one of the stars of Big 12 Conference media days earlier this month in Arlington, Texas. A media vote saw to that. He was the preseason Big 12 offensive player of the year.Then Daniels ...

Published Jul. 26, 2023 at 11:19 PMNEW ORLEANS (WHSV) - The James Madison football program took its turn on the main stage at Sun Belt Football Media Days on Wednesday.Coming off its debut season in the Sun Belt Conference and as an FBS program, the Dukes football program experienced exponential growth in 2022.After years of success in the FCS, many wondered how quickly the Dukes could become a relevant ...

Jul 27, 2023 Updated 4 hrs agoSam Kidd was a staple of James Madison’s safety room, but with his eligibility exhausted, there’s a batch of veteran players eager to pace the Dukes’ defense in their final season of college football.JMU’s safeties room is the most veteran-laden on the defensive side of the ball and it’s set to help pace the Dukes into their second season of Sun Belt Conference football, ...