With a 5.5 game lead in the second half, Hickory is still in the driver's seat for a playoff spot with 18 games left.
- Lia Assimakopoulos, The Dallas Morning News
UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — Every offseason, college football coaches like Rhett Lashlee now face the same challenge. They have to recruit their own roster all over again. The transfer portal gives players a chance to chase more playing time, more money or a better fit. And for the best players…
- Gabe Lacques USA Today
It’s not often a player can be credited with saving the careers of thousands of players who followed him or ensured that a select few of those would go on to earn hundreds of millions of dollars
- USA Today Network
A rather dull preseason showing did produce a bit of light in the form of second-year wideout Ja'seem Reed.
- Austin Curtright USA Today Network
The preseason College Football Playoff landscape highlights blue-bloods, but several unranked teams have potential paths to shake up the chase with strong coaching and talent across conferences.
- Alex Zietlow The Charlotte Observer
The venue’s primary race organizer is, understandably, “disappointed.”
- Steve Gardner USA TODAY
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MIAMI — Mario Cristobal was 13, an age for dreaming, the night the University of Miami arrived as a national college football power. “My grandfather’s house, on a black-and-white TV, watching Kenny Calhoun bat down that ball,” he says now. He needn’t recall that moment 42 years ago, because the memory is always there. Calhoun, a defensive back, deflects a last-second two-point conversion pass ...
Tommy John became synonymous with the elbow surgery that changed baseball forever, but he was also a four-time All-Star who won 288 games and pitched 14 more seasons after undergoing the groundbreaking procedure.
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More North Carolina high school athletes are financially benefiting from their name, image and likeness, but a new report shows they’re not getting huge sums of money. A report presented Wednesday to the State Board of Education shows 21 North Carolina high school students signed NIL agreements during the 2025-26 school year — a 75% increase from the prior year. But the biggest agreement in ...
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — Every offseason, college football coaches like Rhett Lashlee now face the same challenge. They have to recruit their own roster all over again. The transfer portal gives players a chance to chase more playing time, more money or a better fit. And for the best players, there is rarely a shortage of programs willing to make a pitch. Over the last five years, SMU has been ...
The preseason College Football Playoff landscape highlights blue-bloods, but several unranked teams have potential paths to shake up the chase with strong coaching and talent across conferences.
MIAMI — Mario Cristobal was 13, an age for dreaming, the night the University of Miami arrived as a national college football power. “My grandfather’s house, on a black-and-white TV, watching Kenny Calhoun bat down that ball,” he says now. He needn’t recall that moment 42 years ago, because the memory is always there. Calhoun, a defensive back, deflects a last-second two-point conversion pass ...
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With a 5.5 game lead in the second half, Hickory is still in the driver's seat for a playoff spot with 18 games left.
It’s not often a player can be credited with saving the careers of thousands of players who followed him or ensured that a select few of those would go on to earn hundreds of millions of dollars
A rather dull preseason showing did produce a bit of light in the form of second-year wideout Ja'seem Reed.
The venue’s primary race organizer is, understandably, “disappointed.”