The “Big Baller Brand” shoes just refuse to die.
LaVar Ball, the outspoken father of Bulls guard Lonzo Ball, Hornets guard LaMelo Ball and G-League guard LiAngelo Ball, took to Instagram to reveal a new shoe that had basketball fans erupt in laughter.
“Yeah you saw them! That’s right, these triple B’s. You know our vibe is getting tight,” Ball began. “You’ve gotta get this shirt, ‘Greatness takes balls.’ Look how clean it is. Now if you’re into fashion, get this in black and gold.
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Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe entered Saturday as a bit of an unknown quantity to the larger college football world.
However, thanks to a bad snap for the No. 4 Crimson Tide against Middle Tennessee Saturday evening, he’s a bit closer to name recognition.
With 10:49 left in the first quarter, Milroe watched an errant snap dribble past him. He picked the ball up, evaded a tackler in the pocket, scrambled to his right and eventually outran three Blue Raiders for Alabama’s first touchdown of the season.
Boston College quarterback Thomas Castellanos pulled off a fourth down conversion the likes of which you will not see often.
The Eagles were hosting the Northern Illinois Huskies to open their season. With just under 9 minutes to play in regulation, the Eagles found themselves down 21 to 7.
Running out out of options they decided to go for it on 4th-and-5 from their own 46-yard line.
That turned out to be the right call but it wasn’t exactly easy.
This might be the greatest 4th down conversion I’ve ever seen! I love college football!!! #BostonCollege pic.twitter.
Las Vegas has been experiencing extreme rainfall by its usual standards, with heavy flooding hitting the Strip.
While seeing desert streets flood after strong thunderstorms isn’t too surprising, typically you’d expect the extremely expensive buildings in Las Vegas to be safe from rain-related issues.
But apparently not the $2 billion home of the Las Vegas Raiders, Allegiant Stadium. Allegiant is the football home of the UNLV Rebels, who were set to open their 2023 season against the FBS Bryant Bulldogs.
Except the rain in Sin City had other ideas.
Every year, the first weekend of college football features its share of exciting games and brutal blowouts, And, in the case of No. 15 Oregon, Saturday’s historic rout of Portland State firmly fell in the latter category.
Behind a high-powered offense led by quarterback Bo Nix, the Ducks kicked off their season with a dominant 81–7 victory against the Vikings, making Oregon the first FBS team in eight seasons to score 80-plus points in a game since UNLV beat Idaho State, 80–8, in 2015.
As Michigan’s stock rose from 2021 to ’22, so too rose the stock of associate head coach Biff Poggi.
Hired away from Saint Frances Academy in Baltimore before the ’21 season, Poggi became widely recognized as a critical contributor to the Wolverines’ back-to-back Big Ten championships. In Nov. 2022, The Athletic went so far as to call Poggi “[coach] Jim Harbaugh’s consigliere” and “the most interesting man in coaching.”
Charlotte recognized this, and poached Poggi from Michigan in Nov. ’22 to replace fired coach Will Healy.
After Randall Cobb was hit with a penalty for a blindside block on Giants safety Bobby McCain, his longtime Packers-turned-Jets teammate Aaron Rodgers nailed what would happen next.
“Cobby lost all his f—ing training camp money,” Rodgers exclaimed in the huddle after the penalty, a moment caught on HBO’s Hard Knocks.
“What are you doing, bro? This ain’t 2014,” he continued. “I blacked out. … I haven’t been able to hit nobody in a while,” Cobb responded.
As Rodgers predicted, the NFL didn’t look kindly upon Cobb’s violent hit back on Aug. 26.
No. 3 Ohio State captured a 23–3 victory over Indiana in Bloomington on Saturday to kick off its season, but it was an uncharacteristically flat performance for Ryan Day’s Buckeyes.
Ohio State led just 10–3 at the half and struggled to move the ball offensively, especially on the ground. Miyan Williams and TreVeyon Henderson, the Buckeyes’ two primary ball-carriers, rushed the ball 19 times for 72 yards and two touchdowns, both of which came from Williams.
Junior quarterback Kyle McCord made his first start at Ohio State, taking over for C.J.
The University of Central Florida got its 2023 campaign off on the right foot with a 56-6 win over Kent State.
Things didn’t go quite as well on social media as they did on the field.
At one point during the game, the Knights social media account shared a photo of quarterback John Rhys Plumlee. With it was the caption, “SOMEONE CALL THE NATIONAL GUARD.”
History buffs will know exactly where this one is headed…
Only took one night of college football for some social media person to get fired pic.twitter.
We will most likely look back at the 2023 season and remember the Colorado win over TCU as one of the best games of the year. We will also look back at the Deion Sanders postgame press conference and form two opinions, depending on how the season turns out.
Either way, Coach Prime knows how to grab attention, with his players showing out Saturday afternoon.
Since taking the Colorado job, Deion Sanders has told everyone who will listen that he would bring in the talent to win, even in the first season.