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Parker, Nunn update recruitments
CSNChicago.com
Jabari Parker has eight in-home visits set up over the next three weeks. ... 6-foot-8 Parker, and DePaul, BYU and Kansas will also meet with him this week

 

BYU's Rose to get an in-home visit with family of prep hoops ...
Salt Lake Tribune
It is a known fact that prep basketball phenom Jabari Parker, who is LDS, visited BYU's campus a few weeks ago and met with basketball coach Dave Rose

 

Parker has three in-home visits this week
ESPN (blog)
I just had a great conversation with Sonny Parker, father of Chicago Simeon small forward Jabari Parker, who said his son is excited about the home visits, which started Tuesday night when Florida coach Billy Donovan stopped by. They continue with

 

Top 10 defense powering BYU as rivalry game nears
WLFI.com
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Mention some of BYU's greatest teams, and star quarterbacks come to mind — Steve Young, Robbie Bosco, Jim McMahon, Ty Detmer. Yet even with so much focus on the QBs again during rivalry week, what with Riley Nelson playing ...

 

Kragthorpe: BYU, Utah QBs share unlikely stories
Salt Lake Tribune
That's a long way from the BYU punt coverage team, Nelson's initial assignment in 2011, or Nebraska-Omaha, Hays' previous school, which dropped its Division II football program and made him available to Utah. They're a lot alike — overachievers

 

BYU football: Rushing yards always hard to come by for Cougs against Utah
Salt Lake Tribune
Provo • The BYU Cougars don't need to be reminded that they've lost two straight rivalry football games to the University of Utah. Turnovers and special teams blunders are often fingered as the reasons for the losses, but the inability to establish a

 

BYU football: Cougar captains aware of rivalry's importance
Deseret News
BYU's Brandon Ogletree (44) said the 2009 matchup with Utah showed him how much fans cared about the series. Ravell Call, Deseret News. Summary. Each of the three BYU football captains grew up with different perspectives on the BYU-Utah rivalry

 

BYU football: Cougars set sights on 'state championship'
Deseret News
The last time BYU won the Beehive Boot — symbolic of in-state supremacy — was 2009. In fact, since 2010, the Cougars have posted a dismal 1-3 record against Utah and Utah State. Just how important is a state title to BYU? "It means a lot, it really does.

 

BYU could find independence comes with big price
USA TODAY
Though Notre Dame essentially traded the Big East for the ACC and remains a football independent, several observers said the move sent another signal about the increasing difficulty of that path. So what about BYU, which became an independent last year?

 

Notre Dame Leaving The Big East To Join The ACC
Big East Coast Bias (blog)
... Dame to this decision was a fear over continuing to fill a fully independent schedule in the future. If that's the case, perhaps the Big East can re-approached BYU football with the same concern and convince the school to give Big East football

 

Brennan: Notre Dame's move is college sports' reality
USA TODAY
Its decision to move from the Big East to the Atlantic Coast Conference in everything but football and men's ice hockey, and to become more affiliated with a conference in football than it ever has, is as close to a defining moment as we'll get amid

 

How will the Big East respond to the departure of Notre Dame ...
An affiliation with the Big East could help BYU rekindle rivalries with Boise State and San ...

 

The Picker: Here's a pep talk about what really matters in football
Tulsa World
BYU (-3 1/2) at Utah: With Boise State back where it belongs on page 4, BYU is the only potential BCS buster. Two more years of the BCS is like two more years of a live-in in-law. BYU by 7. Alabama (-14) at Arkansas: This one is all about the Ark

 

Colts WR Collie cleared to practice
Pro Football Weekly
Colts WR Austin Collie will practice this week and could play in Week Two's game against the Vikings. Head coach Chuck Pagano told reporters that doctors cleared Collie earlier this week. The fourth-year receiver was diagnosed with a concussion on Aug

 

BYU football: Will Notre Dame's ACC deal cost Cougars future games?
Salt Lake Tribune
When it became a football independent two years ago, BYU announced it would play Notre Dame six times between 2012 and 2020. Two of those games, both at Notre Dame, are scheduled — Oct. 20 this year and Nov. 23 next year. But the remaining four

 

BYU football: Will Notre Dame, ACC alliance impact BYU-Irish series?
Deseret News
BYU's Jonny Harline makes a touchdown catch against Notre Dame's Chinedum Ndukwe as Brigham Young University losses to Notre Dame 49-23 in football in South Bend, Indiana,

 

Big night for 'small' schools King's, Archbishop Murphy | Football ...
The Seattle Times
King's is led by offensive lineman Mason Friedline and quarterback Billy Green, a BYU commit with nine touchdown passes in two games.

 

Montana picks Haslam as athletic director
SI.com
... athletics and because he has the attitude, capabilities and energy to lead us forward.'' Haslam earned undergraduate degrees in broadcast journalism and Japanese from Brigham Young University in 1993 and a master's in education from NAU in 2004

 

Payton Dastrup update, other boys hoops notes | Varsity Xtra
By Kyle Odegard
Mountain View junior power forward Payton Dastrup recently returned from John Lucas' elite 40/40 camp, which brings 48 of the top girls and boys players.

 

Andy Reid has been a big influence on John Harbaugh
Baltimore Sun (blog)
The strong rapport between quarterback Joe Flacco and tight end Dennis Pitta was on full display during the Ravens' 44-13 rout Monday night of the Cincinnati Bengals. Flacco trusted that Pitta would come down with a high arcing lob. And Pitta delivered