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4-5 minutes 8/4/2023DeKALB – After almost a year without playing football, Trayvon Rudolph said he’s glad to be back.As the NIU football team continues its first week of fall camp, Rudolph has been on the field for the first time since early last training camp, where a noncontact knee injury ended his season.“It hurt a lot because I couldn’t help my team out,” said Rudolph, a redshirt junior wide receiver ...

The opening session of fall practice on Wednesday illustrated just how much has changed since then, and how big of a challenge the Mean Green face as they look to rebuild the second level of their defense heading into their season opener against Cal on Sept. 2.Nixon transferred to Auburn, Wood was injured in the offseason, and UNT hit the transfer market to bring in two junior college players.And that ...

3-3 minutes 8/3/2023UNC Football upperclassmen Kaimon Rucker and Elijah Green both earned preseason Wuerffel Watchlist honors for the 2023 season.The UNC football program continues to rack up pre-season watch list honors across various award lists. Upperclassmen Kaimon Rucker and Elijah Green were both named to the Wuerffel Award Watchlist for the 2023 season.Rucker is a rising senior at Carolina and ...

The inspiration has ebbed and flowed over his college career, but Rahmir Johnson still writes bursts of poetry. He got back into over this summer a little bit. And he’s worked on a clothing brand he’s close to releasing.“I’ve got some big things coming in the near future,” the fifth-year Husker running back said.A big competition this August, too.Johnson is one of three Nebraska runners vying for the ...

6-7 minutes 8/4/2023Last season marked one of the few in recent history that an inside linebacker did not lead the Navy football team in tackles.Outside linebacker John Marshall enjoyed an historic season and topped the Midshipmen with 96 tackles. Marshall, who played the hybrid position known in the Navy defensive system as striker, lived in opposing backfields on the way to setting a single-season ...

STARKVILLE — Less than a month remains until the smells emerging from grills fills the air outside Davis Wade Stadium while the ringing of cowbells echoes inside. Football season is nearing, but first comes the grind of preseason practices.Mississippi State football returns to the practice fields on Friday as Zach Arnett’s first full season as head coach approaches. While the Bulldogs enter the season ...

8-10 minutes 8/4/2023Brevyn Spann-Ford was on the verge of becoming a Missouri Tiger on the morning of June 2, 2017.His mother Jacky Ford knew that wasn’t what he really wanted. His coaches at St. Cloud Tech knew it, too. So they sat him down that day and told him to be patient for at least one more night.That evening, Spann-Ford was scheduled to attend yet another Gophers football camp. He had lost ...

A longtime strength and conditioning coach at Michigan State University is suing the university and athletic director Alan Haller, claiming he was demoted and discriminated against based on his race, age and the fact he has a disability.In a suit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in the Western District of Michigan, Mike Vorkapich, 52, says Haller and deputy athletic director Ashton Henderson, ...

East Lansing — Noah Kim hasn’t wavered since the 2022 season ended.It was a difficult one for the Spartans, particularly the offense. And as Michigan State headed into an uncertain offseason after winning just five games, coach Mel Tucker declared an open competition for every position on the field, including quarterback.Michigan State quarterback Noah Kim appeared in four games last season, going ...

EAST LANSING — Once again, No. 10 took the first reps at quarterback on the first portion of Michigan State football’s first preseason practice.Only that jersey contained Noah Kim, not Payton Thorne.The Spartans began the post-Thorne era Thursday, the competition for the QB job remaining open following the two-year starter’s surprising transfer to Auburn in April.Almost all media eyes during the open ...