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NCAAF: USC blank Fresno State 39-0 behind Maiava’s 349 yards
Jayden Maiava missed twice all night. USC missed nothing else, blanking Fresno State 39-0 for the programme’s first shutout in two years.
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NCAA Football: Oklahoma bury UTEP 51-0 behind Mateer’s three scores
Every touchdown pass travelled at least 34 yards That detail says more than the final score. John Mateer threw three, all of them deep, on 11 completions from 17 attempts for 225 yards as No. 10 Oklahoma opened with a 51-0 win over UTEP in Norman. The offseason was built around exactly this. Oklahoma made…
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NCAA Football: Mensah, Toney tear Stanford apart in Miami rout
27 of 30. That is where this one starts. Not the 401 yards. Not the five touchdowns. The completion rate. Darian Mensah went 27 for 30 on Thursday night in his first start at quarterback for Miami, a 90 percent clip, as the seventh-ranked Hurricanes buried Stanford 45-6. Since 2021, only two quarterbacks have put…
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NCAA Football: Michigan State survive Toledo scare 30-20
Five field goals, two touchdowns, one uncomfortable night Liam Boyd went five for five in East Lansing on Saturday night. Five. That was the margin as Michigan State beat Toledo 30-20 in the season opener. When a team leans on its kicker to get over the line, that usually tells you plenty. The Spartans led…
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NFL: Okuayinonu stays home as 49ers head to Melbourne
The plane left without him Twenty-plus hours in the air to open a season. Sam Okuayinonu will not be making the trip. The San Francisco 49ers confirmed Friday that the defensive tackle misses next Thursday’s opener against the Los Angeles Rams in Australia. He is still working back from a foot injury and did not…
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NFL: Hall of Fame cuts its voting panel in half
Fifty voters becomes twenty-five Two and a half years of internal review. That is what sits behind the announcement Canton made on Friday. Jim Porter, president of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, laid out a set of board-approved changes that tear up how gold jackets get handed out. They kick in with the 2027…
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NFL: Falcons add Abraham and Fralic to the Ring of Honor
Atlanta named two additions to its Ring of Honor today. One gets his night in October, the other in December.
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NFL: Hall of Fame halves its voter panel after Belichick snub
The Pro Football Hall of Fame has cut its voting panel in half and scrapped the seniors category. Bill Belichick’s snub in February hangs over every line of it.
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NFL: Skattebo came close to quitting after his rookie year
One rule, set on his way out of college: one major injury and he stops. Seven games into his NFL career, Cam Skattebo had to decide whether he meant it.
