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Ethan Westerman's Twitter account , Matt Jones Matt Jones's Twitter account , Scottie Bordelon Scottie Bordelon's Twitter accountPublished Saturday, August 5, 2023FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas’ football team held its second practice of the preseason Saturday around 9 a.m. on the fields outside Walker Pavilion.Here are some notes, observations and takeaways from the open-viewing periods. Thunder and lightning ...

BY WILLS RICEArizona SportsThe Arizona State Sun Devils have ramped up their recruiting in the south, especially in Texas.The newest member of the Sun Devils will be 2025 three-star athlete Joseph Smith from Legacy School of Sport Sciences in Texas, the first commit after the school announced it was leaving for the Big 12.Smith also had offers from Kansas, Utah, Houston and Arkansas State.Despite being ...

Arizona RepublicJayden Daniels, Ethan Long, Dillon Sterling-Cole, Joey Yellen. Then came Finn Collins, Daylin McLemore, Jack Smith, Paul Tyson and Emory Jones. Then Bennett Meredith. If you didn't count, those are the 10 scholarship quarterbacks who have skipped town since Trenton Bourguet arrived in Tempe in 2018.Bourguet can rattle off another five non-scholarship quarterbacks who have also left ...

The first football commit for Arizona since announcing its decision to move to the Big 12 was formerly committed to a future conference opponent.Three-star 2024 athlete Chance Harrison, who is expected to play defensive back in college, committed to the Wildcats on Saturday; he decommitted from BYU in June.The 6-1, 185-pound Harrison also held offers from Washington State, Colorado, State, San Diego ...

This week has been ... a lot.No one died — aside from the Pac-12 — so we don’t want to be overly dramatic here. But Arizona leaving the “Conference of Champions” for the Big 12, along with ASU, Colorado and Utah, is a seismic event that impacts a lot of people, positively and negatively.We aren’t done mourning the demise of the Pac-12, which still has one more season with its full 12-school membership. ...

Tuscaloosa NewsTwo things we know with certainty about Nick Saban: he's not going to show his hand in a public preseason setting, and he's not going to waste one of the NCAA's allotted preseason practices on subterfuge. Those conditions generated a low-ceiling, high-floor opportunity to peer into the state of 2023 Alabama football on Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium, in the form of the Crimson Tide's ...

By Matt Stahl |Kevin Steele was surprised. Alabama football’s new defensive coordinator was at Miami last season in the same job, and didn’t see himself returning to Tuscaloosa, where he was Nick Saban’s first Crimson Tide defensive coordinator in 2007 and 2008 and also worked from 2013-14.Then, he got the call looking for him to return and replace Pete Golding, who left for Ole Miss.“Shocking,” Steele ...

Published Aug. 05, 2023, 3:25 p.m.By Matt Stahl |Alabama football’s 2024 recruiting class grew on Saturday, when the Crimson Tide took a commitment from wide receiver Amari Jefferson. The two-sport athlete had previously been committed to Tennessee baseball.Jefferson, who plays his high school sports at Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tenn., is rated as a four-star prospect in the 247Sports composite. ...

Published Aug. 05, 2023, 4:39 p.m.By Nick Alvarez |Bryant-Denny Stadium opened up for the first time this fall with a pristine playing surface ready for Alabam football’s Fan Day.The Crimson Tide took the field surrounded by a sparse crowd on Saturday afternoon. After the event, subscribers to the Tide’s NIL-arm Yea Alabama were able to get autographs on the field.It should be noted that these are ...

By Kevin Scarbinsky | Special to AL.comI’m not sure who needs to hear this, although the list would have to start with Finis St. John IV, Stuart Bell, Greg Byrne and Nick Saban. The thought may never have occurred to the University of Alabama’s chancellor, president, athletics director and head football coach, busy as they are with their own business, but let me offer some friendly advice in the wake ...