What will the first month of the college football season teach us about each team in the preseason AP Top 25 poll?
Author: Michael
Our roster of college football’s top players has plenty of familiar faces and representatives from traditional powers.
Dalvin Cook and Ezekiel Elliott are going to the AFC East, joining fantasy darlings at running back already on those teams.
Stanford basketball got great news back in October when its leading scorer, Cameron Brink, announced that she would be returning for her senior year well ahead of decision time. The two-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the year was eligible to enter the WNBA Draft in April but she loves playing college hoops and shut down any speculation about her future before it began.
I think I want to stay just because I want to just continue to be a kid. Finish my degree in four years, not rush myself.
It’s fun, college is fun.
Coming off a career year and Pro Bowl season for the Eagles, Brown is doing extra training to take his game to another level, and a higher speed.
These are not your parents’ Jets and, they hope, not your slightly older cousins’ Jets, either. A mere 12 years ago the club assembled a superteam unable to contain its obvious volatility. The combination of LaDainian Tomlinson, Plaxico Burress, Derrick Mason, Santonio Holmes and Bart Scott melted down into charred rubber live on the final Sunday of a lost 2011 season.
It was, perhaps, the messiest eight-win season in recent NFL history due in part to the expectations preceding the meltdown and the city in which it took place.
Georgia football pumps out ridiculously strong running backs like no other program in the country. Chauncey Bowens is not the exception and… he’s not even in college yet!
The four-star running back took 630 pounds for a ride on the hex bar like it was no big deal back in June. And he did it while wearing Buc-ee’s shorts, which is great.
To put that number in perspective, Eagles offensive lineman Lane Johnson put up 700 pounds on the deadlift last month. He is 6-foot-6, 325 pounds and 33 years old.
Former NFL running back Alex Collins has died, according to Monday evening announcements from the Ravens and Seahawks. He was 28.
Baltimore and Seattle both publicly mourned Collins, who spent 2016 and ’20–21 with the Seahawks and ’17–18 with the Ravens. Collins played for the USFL’s Memphis Showboats this past season.
In his five-year NFL career, he ran for 1,997 yards and 18 touchdowns to go with 467 receiving yards and a receiving touchdown.
The NFL mourns the loss of former Seahawks and Ravens running back Alex Collins, who died at the age of 28 on Monday.
Collins played in the NFL for five seasons.
Broward County Sheriff’s Office released a statement late Monday detailing that Collins died in a fatal crash while riding his motorcycle in Florida on Sunday night. The scene occurred near West Oakland Park Boulevard in the city of Lauderdale Lakes.
The announcement read:
The crash occurred at approximately 10:20 p.m., on Sunday, Aug. 13, near the 3300 block of West Oakland Park Boulevard.
The 2023–24 season may still be a few months away, but the hype train already appears to be full speed ahead for Caitlin Clark and Iowa fans entering the fall.
The Hawkeyes star guard and reigning Naismith Player of the Year shared her enthusiasm for the upcoming campaign on Monday in response to the news of Iowa women’s basketball announcing its first season-ticket sellout in program history.