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STAFF WRITERAUG. 31, 2023 5:30 AM PTThe Three Amigos. A modern triumvirate. A three-headed monster.Call it whatever you want, but what’s been described as a friendly competition is about to take a dramatic turn. Starting Saturday night, UCLA’s top three quarterbacks no longer will battle it out exclusively in the comfort of closed practices.A Rose Bowl crowd and a national television audience will ...

Coach Prime, it’s your time.Deion Sanders’ coaching debut with Colorado comes Saturday against No. 17 TCU in Fort Worth, Texas, and it wouldn’t be hyperbole to say this is the most anticipated opener in the Buffaloes’ history.CU made the splashiest of the splash hires during the 2022-23 coaching cycle, bringing in the charismatic Sanders from Jackson State after he turned the Tigers into the premier ...

 UPDATED: August 31, 2023 at 3:05 p.m.STANFORD – A new coach, a new offensive identity and 16 new starters, including a QB making his first-ever start.After an offseason full of change – including the breakup of the Pac-12, which has left Stanford’s future conference affiliation in doubt – the new-look Cardinal finally take the field Friday night at Hawai’i to open its 2023 season.The changes started ...

Aug. 31, 2023As Karsyn Pupunu fought back tears at his locker stall, his Hawaii teammates gathered around him and prayed for his family.News reports were rippling through social media about a Maui wildfire that had destroyed Pupunu’s hometown of Lahaina. Within hours, Pupunu would learn the unthinkable: His aunt, uncle and two cousins were among the 100-plus people killed.Such tragedy brought new meaning ...

PUBLISHED August 31, 2023 at 6:15 a.m. | UPDATED: August 31, 2023 at 3:22 p.m.SAN JOSE — The last time San Jose State appeared on a nationally-televised regular season game on CBS, the No. 1 song in America was “Abracadabra” by the Steve Miller Band and the highest grossing movie was “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.”The Spartans play No. 18 Oregon State on Sunday in their first nationally televised regular ...

CITY NEWS SERVICEAUG. 31, 2023 4:06 PM PTA former San Diego State football player who was previously investigated in connection with an alleged gang rape of a 17-year-old girl pleaded guilty Thursday to possession of child pornography.While prosecutors declined to charge 20-year-old Nowlin Ewaliko and other former Aztec players in connection with the rape allegations, the police investigation into ...

PISCATAWAY – Greg Schiano isn’t downplaying the opportunity that Rutgers football has in front of it.“We have a chance to play on opening weekend, the only game on Sunday at noon,” Schiano said Tuesday during a news conference inside the Hale Center. "So there will be a lot of eyes on the Scarlet Knights.”Rutgers will kick off its 2023 season, as Schiano said, on Sunday at noon at SHI Stadium, the ...

Lafayette Journal & CourierWEST LAFAYETTE − The general rule around Purdue football for years has been that true freshmen don't talk to the media.Not until they've played their first game, anyway.Dillon Thieneman is the exception to that rule.To be fair, the former Westfield High School defensive back has been the exception for just about every other freshman stereotype, too."Coming in, in the weight ...

Published Aug. 31, 2023, 12:45 p.m.So ends the before times.We don’t need an official proclamation from the head coach to understand that the Drew Allar Era at Penn State starts now. The hopes and dreams and hype, replaced by game-to-game reality, starting Saturday night against West Virginia in Happy Valley.The hopes are sky high, on merit. Not just for Allar, for the whole group, for this season ...

While Ohio State’s quarterback competition got most of the attention this summer, the other big question about the Buckeyes’ offense quietly reached a resolution.Ohio State is loaded with elite playmakers at receiver and running back, but it's almost impossible for an offense to function without a quality offensive line. The Buckeyes entered training camp with uncertainly about that unit after losing ...