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Colorado's Shedeur Sanders, Travis Hunter Big 12 POYs
Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders and cornerback Travis Hunter swept top honors in the Big 12 Conference on Thursday.,Sanders, a senior and son of Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders, was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year. He leads the conference in pass completions (337), yards (3,926) and...
Colorado's Travis Hunter to enter draft, vows to be full-time CB and WR in NFL
Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter plans to turn pro and prefers to continue a dual role, playing wide receiver and cornerback in the NFL.,Hunter could be the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft and is the favorite for the Heisman Trophy. ,Speculation about his future quieted as he gained notoriety by...
Travis Hunter putting vise grip on Heisman Trophy
The Heisman Trophy race appears to have been trimmed in half to a two-player race over the weekend, with Colorado's Travis Hunter continuing to distance himself at the top.,The Buffaloes' two-way star caught five passes in a commanding 49-24 win over Utah. That boosted Hunter's season total to 74 re...
Heisman Trophy Odds: Buffs' Travis Hunter vaults into lead
The Heisman Trophy remains a four-player race, but there is yet another new leader among oddsmakers.,Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter took advantage of Miami's first loss of the season to vault into the favorite seat for the first time this season. Hunter, who caught nine passes for 99 yards and ...
Heisman Trophy Odds: Travis Hunter in hot pursuit as Cam Ward regains lead
Dillon Gabriel threw for 294 yards in a 21-point win on the road against the reigning national champions and dropped two spots in the Heisman Trophy odds race.,That speaks to how tight the competition is in what has boiled down to a four-player race in the first week of November.,Dillon, who regaine...
Dillon Gabriel regains Heisman Trophy lead as Travis Hunter soars
No one claimed winning a Heisman Trophy as a running back would be an easy task -- or even necessarily a fair one.,Boise State's Ashton Jeanty rushed for 128 yards and a touchdown as the Broncos handed UNLV only its second loss of the season Friday night in Las Vegas. He now has racked up an FBS-lea...
Colorado star WR/CB Travis Hunter (shoulder) getting healthier
Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter is making progress from his right shoulder injury, and Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders is expecting him to play a bigger role against visiting Cincinnati on Saturday.,Hunter has missed the second half of each of Colorado's past two games. He initially hurt the shoul...
Deion Sanders: Colorado WR-CB Travis Hunter playing 'for certain' at Arizona
Colorado two-way standout Travis Hunter will be ready to play Saturday against Arizona, Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders said. ,A junior in the running for the Heisman Trophy, Hunter has played cornerback and wide receiver for Colorado (4-2, 2-1 Big 12) this season, but left last week's 31-28 loss...
Ashton Jeanty, Travis Hunter new Heisman Trophy favorites
For the first time this year, a pair of non-quarterbacks -- Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty and Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter -- sit atop the DraftKings Heisman Trophy odds, replacing Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe, who held the top spot until this week.,Jeanty, who leads the nation w...
Alabama's Jalen Milroe rolls into heavy Heisman favorite status
When Jalen Milroe announced last December that he was returning to Alabama for the 2024 season, he didn't specifically mention the Heisman Trophy as a motivating factor.,If it weren't already among his goals, Milroe can add it to his list after potentially enjoying his "Heisman moment" in Saturday's...
EA Sports reveals cover of College Football 25 game
Travis Hunter, Quinn Ewers and Donovan Edwards are the featured players on the cover of EA Sports College Football 25, a game returning to store shelves for the first time in more than a decade.,The game has not been produced since the 2014 edition. On Thursday, EA Sports released the cover of the n...
The Atlanta Hawks have gone from up-and-coming to an Eastern Conference afterthought
It wasn’t long ago that the Atlanta Hawks were on the cusp of an NBA Finals appearance. They turned a 41-win campaign (in a 72-game season) into what many thought would be a launching point as perennial contenders. Now the Hawks’ halftime show announcements are more exciting than what’s happening on...
Is Deion Sanders ushering in a positionless era at Colorado?
Deion Sanders is an iconoclast, if nothing else. Sanders has gone against the grain by taking the rarely traveled SWAC route to a Power 5 coaching job, in addition to his use of the transfer portal, his braggadocious coaching style, his deals with Barstool and decision to sign with Colorado over mor...
Sage Steele and Michele Tafoya: A match made in delusion
So how does one become an official member of the “Coalition of Courage,” Michele Tafoya? Is there a fee? Do you hold meetings? Is there a secret intake process that has been passed down through the decades? Or does one simply have to take a decorated career in an industry that becomes more difficult...
Deion Sanders is borrowing too much of his Colorado strategy from Elon Musk
Fear not Boulder, Colorado, Deion Sanders is here to save Colorado football. All he needed when he stepped off a private jet was his own silk cape to accompany his messiah complex. If the extremes and excesses of the NIL era were molded into human form, it would be the man known as Coach Prime....
10 NBA storylines that deserve more love
It feels like we’re already in midseason form. Truth is, we’re barely a month in....
Who will be stepping into the limelight this NBA season?
When a new wave of players becomes NBA relevant, it usually happens over time, never all at once. It’s a gradual increase in relevance, sometimes under the radar, because it’s guys who reach their potential in small markets and losing situations. When a lottery pick hits early and fast, like Paolo B...
The NBA’s Eastern Conference might see a bit of a shake-up in the standings this season
It’s October, so it’s Halloween season, but it also means the NBA is back. All the talk and some drama will be moved aside as teams return to the court, hoping to do what the Golden State Warriors did last season in raising the Larry O’Brien NBA Finals trophy....
What’s that thing about getting exactly what you want?
It was a familiar refrain, somewhere around 2016 or 2017, when the Black N’ Gold version of NXT was arguably at its zenith, and arguably the best wrestling going on the planet at that moment. Any fan would watch yet another banger of an NXT Takeover and think, “Man, when Hunter (Triple H) takes over...
The Atlanta Hawks adding Dejounte Murray would change the entire landscape of the Eastern Conference
The Atlanta Hawks were the second best offensive team in the NBA this past season. Trae Young had the best season of his career averaging 28.4 points and 9.7 assists per game on 46/38.2/90.4 shooting splits. He kept his team’s offense rolling all season despite many injuries. Of players who averaged...