Duke Giarraputo may not be the most sought-after prospect in the college football recruiting Class of 2025 (yet), but he might be the coolest. His recent visit to the University of Arizona led to an all-time recruiting moment.
Giarraputo is a 6-foot-3, 205-pound athlete from Westlake Village, California. He plays for Oaks Christian High School and is set to enter his junior year this fall.
Duke Giarraputo at his former school, Windward High School. (Image via Hudl)
On the field, Giarraputo lines up at linebacker, defensive end, safety and receiver. Off the field, he boasts a 4.0 GPA.
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Ja Morant’s been in hot water with the NBA since first brandishing a weapon on social media in March.
Morant has stayed out of the spotlight since the second gun incident on May 14, as he awaits a pending decision from the NBA regarding a suspension.
Jaren Jackson Jr. Speaks On Teammate / ‘Brother’ Ja Morant
Jaren Jackson Jr., a teammate of Morant’s on the Memphis Grizzlies, provided an update regarding the troubled star.
Appearing on Podcast P with Paul George, JJJ detailed his communications with Morant, adding that his teammate is doing “good” in his time away from headlines.
Urban Meyer is coming at Name, Image and Likeness in two very different ways.
Meyer, 58, recently spoke with Dan Dakich about NIL. His stance did not match his current position within the space.
Urban Meyer Believes NIL Collectives Are Just A Fancy Form Of Cheating
It’s a situation of “do as I say, not as I do” and “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” mixed into one. Something like that.
Meyer spent 18 years as a head coach in college football. The majority of that time was spent with Utah, Florida and Ohio State.
There were 514 five-star prospects during that timeframe.
The official story out of Buffalo in late February was that defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier was taking a year off from coaching. The unofficial story always seemed to be that he got a belated nudge from the Bills, as the unofficial scapegoat for the team’s failure to live up to sky-high expectations in 2022.
ONE lightweight submission grappling world champion Kade Ruotolo isn’t looking past this weekend’s challenge at “ONE Fight Night 11: Eersel vs. Menshikov” on Amazon Prime Video, but he does have something else brewing in the background.
The young Brazilian jiu-jitsu phenom puts his belt on the line against heated rival Tommy Langaker in the co-main event of the star-studded card, which U.S. and Canadian fans can watch live on Friday with an Amazon Prime membership.
College football coaches have always been a different breed, but Nick Saban’s most recent look at the day-to-day grind really puts things in perspective. The new era of the sport is exhausting.
Nick Saban’s annual schedule is a grind. (Photos by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
The Early Signing Period; Name, Image and Likeness; and the transfer portal have changed college football in a way that has not been so since the forward pass. The latter two go hand-in-hand to some extent, and all three components to the yearly calendar create an additional component to how things operate.
The next jump in technological advancement is here, and it costs a crap ton of money.
Apple unveiled its new augmented reality headset — the Apple Vision Pro — during the 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference.
Apple’s Vision Pro mixed-reality headset #WWDC23 pic.twitter.com/8z3dV60e1i
— Engadget (@engadget) June 5, 2023
Vision Pro features two 4K micro OLED displays and dual drivers with Spatial Audio #WWDC23 pic.twitter.
The NFL is investigating a Colts player for possible violations of the league’s gambling policy. Sources told ESPN’s David Purdum the player in question is Isaiah Rodgers.
The Cowboys released receiver Antonio Callaway on Monday in the wake of his arrest in Miami over the weekend, the team announced. Dallas signed former Chargers receiver Tyron Johnson to replace Callaway in a corresponding move.
Callaway was arrested Saturday due to an outstanding warrant for driving with a suspended license, according to a report from Andy Slater of Fox Sports 640. The 26-year-old was reportedly taken into custody after identifying himself to law enforcement when the vehicle was pulled over for speeding.
BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU’s baseball team had just started to celebrate a rare full weekend of good pitching, and it lost its pitching coach.
Word spread just as the Tigers were winning the NCAA Regional championship with a 13-7 win over Oregon State on Monday afternoon that Georgia had just confirmed the hiring of LSU pitching coach Wes Johnson.
Sources: Georgia is finalizing a deal to make LSU pitching coach Wes Johnson the school’s new head coach. Johnson has extensive SEC experience from his time at LSU, Mississippi State and Arkansas as a pitching coach. pic.twitter.