HONOLULU (AP) — Jai'den Thomas rushed for 143 yards and a touchdown, Jackson Arnold rushed for 89 yards and two scores along with 116 passing yards, and UNLV weathered Hawaii's attempted comeback in a 21-6 victory on Saturday night.
UNLV, which received four points in the AP Top 25 Poll, captured their fourth straight Island Showdown trophy. Hawaii and UNLV have met in 18 straight seasons, the longest active streak against any team for the Rainbow Warriors.
The Rebels (1-1) outgained Hawaii (0-2) 364-294 and did not give up a touchdown.
Arnold ran for two short touchdowns of 2 and 7 yards in the first half to give UNLV a 14-3 cushion at the break. The second half, however, was almost all Hawaii until near the end of the fourth.
Hawaii outgained UNLV 185-147 in the second half, but only mustered three more points. They saw their fourth-quarter drives end with a turnover on downs, a punt and a game-sealing interception.

#arnold #rushed #straight

The No. 18 ranked TCU volleyball team picked up its first win of the 2026 season Sunday, sweeping UNLV 25-17, 25-16, 33-31 to close out the Players Era Volleyball Showcase in Las Vegas. The Horned Frogs hit .264 as a team and limited the Rebels to a .139 hitting rate. Evan Hendrix posted a double-double with 13 kills and 11 digs for the Horned Frogs (1-1), who hit over .300 in the first two sets. Jalyn Gibson added eight kills on a .444 hitting rate.
big play jay ™️#GoFrogs | GibsonJalyn pic.twitter.com/Q1uBjE03mb
Becca Kelley chipped in eight kills, while Rosemary Archer sent out 23 ***** ists and Reese Wilburn followed with 13 ***** ists to pace the TCU attack. Kinsley Young led the front-row defense with five blocks and added six kills on a .455 hitting rate. Alice Volpe anchored the back row with a team-high 14 digs. Aiding the middle was Reese Robins, who collected seven kills on a .455 hitting rate while blocked three total shots in the match.

#rate #frogs #reese

Memphis football is the talk of the town after a buzzworthy defensive performance powered the Tigers to a 27-21 Week 0 win at UNLV.
Charles Huff and Co. hope to hit another high note by christening the newly renovated Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium with a win over Arkansas State on Sept. 5.
On this week's episode, Tiger football beat writer Jonah Dylan and Tiger basketball beat writer Jason Munz relive some key under-the-radar moments from the victory in Vegas and set up the Group of 6 showdown against the Red Wolves.
Dylan and Munz also update where things stand with Nemanja Popovic's eligibility and explain why the American Conference's recent ban on professional players returning to college has no bearing on the situation.
Reach sports writer Jason Munz at jason.munzcommercialappeal.com, follow him munzly on X.

#munz #tiger

The Washington Commanders announced their initial practice squad on Monday afternoon. It included several standout players from training camp and the preseason, with talent that will surely support game-day efforts throughout the year.
Receiver Jaden Bradley is a notable addition, someone who received high praise throughout the course of camp. Terry McLaurin has mentored the undrafted UNLV product, who proved a hard worker in practices and a dynamic playmaker in preseason games.
The Commanders have a bloated receiver corps right now, but it's still possible Bradley sees the field at some point during the regular season.
Washington also signed veteran defensive lineman Byron Cowart, a relatively late addition who is an effective run stopper up front.
The Commanders also added fan favorite Robert Henry Jr., a running back and big-play threat. Craig Reynolds was also kept in that position group, and could be the first rusher elevated with just three backs on the active roster.

#camp

Nebraska's season-opening opponent has announced its starting quarterback. The Ohio Bobcats have named Nick Poulos the starter for the Bobcats' game against the Huskers in Lincoln.
This will be Poulos' first season as the starter after spending his last two seasons as a backup. In 12 games, he has thrown for 290 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception while completing only 45.6% of his passes.
The quarterback's legs will also be a factor in Ohio's spread option offense. He has also run for 184 yards and one touchdown in his career.
Ohio is coming off a 2025 season that saw the Bobcats finish with a 9-4 record and a victory over UNLV in the Frisco Bowl. The 2026 MAC coaches preseason poll picked Ohio to finish fourth with zero votes to win the MAC Championship.
Nebraska opens the 2026 season on Saturday, Sept. 5, when the Ohio Bobcats visit Memorial Stadium. Kickoff time is set for 11 a.m. CT and can be seen on FS1.

#starter

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Marcus Stokes threw for 223 yards and two touchdowns as Memphis rattled off the final 13 points to beat UNLV 27-21 on Saturday night in a season opener for both teams.
The win helped Charles Huff become the first Tigers head coach to win a road debut game.
Stokes completed 15 of 26 passes with no turnovers, while Jaylin Carter rushed for 97 yards and a touchdown on 15 carries.
UNLV took a 14-7 halftime lead behind Jackson Arnold, who threw a 38-yard touchdown pass to Tavian McNair and added a 6-yard touchdown run. The Rebels had won their previous 11 games when leading at the break, with their last loss coming against Syracuse on Oct. 4, 2024.
Stokes tied the game early in the third quarter with a 48-yard touchdown pass to Stonka Burnside, but Arnold answered with a 22-yard touchdown pass to Kayden McGee. Carter then scored on a 36-yard run to make it 21-all.

#game

Auburn football made a clean sweep of its quarterback room following the 2025 season, and two of those made their debuts for their new programs on Saturday.
Ashton Daniels took the field for the Florida State Seminoles, while Jackson Arnold was named the starter for UNLV just days before the season-opening game. Daniels led the Seminoles to a 34-17 win over New Mexico State, while Arnold had a great day passing but could not get the win as UNLV lost to Memphis in their season opener at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
Both quarterbacks dealt with pressure issues on Saturday, similar to their time at Auburn. According to PFF, Daniels was under pressure in 12 of his 27 passing attempts. FSU Wire's JD McCarthy believes the pressure he faced forced him to make questionable passing decisions.
"It was a mixed bag for Ashton Daniels in his debut," writes McCarthy. "He was constantly under pressure as FSU's offensive line struggled to protect him, but he also held onto the ball for to long at times and made a bad decision on his interception. He finished the day 17-27 passing for 202 yards, one touchdown, and one interception. He also ran for a touchdown."
The pressure was amplified for Arnold in UNLV's 27-21 loss to Memphis on Saturday as he was pressured 18 times according to PFF data. He was sacked seven times; two of those sacks occurred during the Rebels' final drive of the game. Despite facing constant pressure, Arnold found success through the air, completing 25 passes for 291 yards and two touchdowns with zero interceptions. He rushed for 108 yards, but the high number of sacks trimmed his total to just 58 net yards on the ground.

#daniels #made #times

LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The UNLV Rebels were defeated, 27-21, by the Memphis Tigers on Saturday, August 29, 2026, at Allegiant Stadium and The Sporting Tribune's RJ Forbus and Paige Kuwata were there to capture the following TST Images.
UNLV Football outside linebacker Elias Rudolph and UNLV Football safety Jake Pope take down Memphis quarterback Marcus Stokes during a non-conference college football game against the Memphis Tigers on Saturday, August 29, 2026, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, NV.
Paige Kuwata - The Sporting Tribune
UNLV Football outside linebacker Elias Rudolph (91) and UNLV Football safety Jake Pope (7) take down Memphis quarterback Marcus Stokes (2) during a non-conference college football game against the Memphis Tigers on Saturday, August 29, 2026, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, NV.
UNLV Football wide reciever DeAngelo Irvin Jr. catches a pass from UNLV Football quarterback Jackson Arnold during a non-conference college football game against the Memphis Tigers on Saturday, August 29, 2026, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, NV.

#unlv #vegas #allegiant #stadium

LAS VEGAS—All eyes were on the UNLV Rebels, who came out the other side of conference realignment in a position of menace for a College Football Playoff spot.
With the Mountain West no longer loaded with the traditional boogeymen for the Rebels such as Boise State, UNLV has an opportunity to make a statement of their own. With another high-profile transfer at quarterback in Jackson Arnold and a defense hoping for improvement in defensive coordinator Paul Guenther's second year, the Rebels clearly have such designs in mind for themselves.
However, to be the best in the new Group of Six with the addition of the revived Pac-12, the Rebels will need to beat the best the other conferences have to offer, and they got a tremendous opportunity to do exactly that against the Memphis Tigers.
On Saturday, however, all of those hopes suffered a massive dent with a 27-21 loss at Allegiant Stadium.
"Losing sucks, I'll tell you that," said UNLV head coach Dan Mullen during the postgame press conference. "Some critical errors, some areas we got to be better at."

#best #Football #playoff

LAS VEGAS — Memphis football has a new quarterback for the 2026 season.
West Florida transfer Marcus Stokes will start for Memphis against UNLV on Aug. 28 (9 p.m., CT FOX). Stokes beat out South Carolina transfer Air Noland for the Tigers' starting job.
The team has undergone massive change since last season ended. Coach Ryan Silverfield left for Arkansas and was replaced by Charles Huff. Huff put together a new roster made up mostly of transfers, and Stokes was one of the first marquee additions to the roster.
Throughout the offseason, Huff continued to stress that Stokes and Noland were in a competition and there would not be a resolution until the first game. But Stokes always had the experience advantage in the competition and will now get to start at the FBS level for the first time.
Here's what to know about Stokes.

#start #Competition

UNLV Head coach Dan Mullen announced Thursday on a radio show that former Oklahoma and Auburn quarterback Jackson Arnold will be starting on Saturday against Memphis.
After a rough year at Auburn, Jackson Arnold hit the transfer portal and found a new home at UNLV, where he will make his start for the third team in his college career. Head coach Dan Mullen made his decision to start Arnold week zero against Memphis after the off-season quarterback competition between Arnold and former Michigan Quarterback Alex Orji.
Arnold came to the Plains in spring 2025 after two seasons at Oklahoma. There was plenty of hype around the transfer as Arnold was a five-star prospect coming out of high school in Texas. His solo season for the Tigers did not go as many had hoped. Arnold recorded 1,309 passing yards, six passing touchdowns, 311 rushing yards, and eight rushing touchdowns. He only threw two interceptions, which on paper is great, but it really came from his hesitancy to make decisions; throwing was the key reason for that low number.
Now he will be starting for a potential Group of 5 college football playoff contender in UNLV. It will be interesting to see him take the field and see if there is any development in his decision-making.
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#mullen #jackson #memphis

We are so back.
The 2026 college football season begins in earnest on Saturday with eight FBS games as part of the Week 0 slate. Headlining that schedule is the highly anticipated rematch between UNC and TCU as Bill Belichick's second season in Chapel Hill begins. He'll hope it starts better than the first, when the Horned Frogs dominated the Tar Heels on their home field.
That's only the tip of the iceberg, though. Saturday's Week 0 slate also features an early ACC showdown between NC State and Virginia, North Dakota State's first FBS game against a top Conference USA contender in Jacksonville State and a nightcap that could prove to be one of the most impactful games in the Group of Six all season as two CFP hopefuls, UNLV and Memphis, face off in Sin City.
Here at College Sports Wire, we'll keep you apprised of all the news, highlights and wild moments from Week 0 of the college football season.
Check back later for live updates from Saturday's Week 0 games.

#games #state #slate #first

The UCLA Bruins and the USC Trojans play in the same city, they play in the same conference but the comparisons just about end there for the two Big Ten schools as they enter the 2026 season.
The pressure is on for USC, landing several terrific recruiting classes, but those recruiting classes have yet to lead to too much success under head coach Lincoln Riley. The time is now for the Trojans but they're tasked with a challenging Big Ten schedule, making their first-ever College Football Playoff appearance far from a sure thing.
Things are quite the opposite in Westwood. The Bruins are fresh off of being a national laughingstock for their 3-9 season which featured losses to UNLV and New Mexico. Enter in new head coach Bob Chesney and suddenly spirits are quite high for UCLA.
Yahoo Sports writer Dan Wolken covered the juxtaposition between the two programs entering the 2026 season.
"Against significant odds given what's happened the last two seasons, UCLA has managed to blow it out of Westwood. It's largely thanks to new coach Bob Chesney, the relentlessly positive and perfectly coiffed 49-year-old who won at a bunch of small schools in the Northeast you've never heard of before taking James Madison to the College Football Playoff last season. Before even coaching a game, he has managed to convince UCLA's administration, its boosters and most importantly its players that he can do the exact same thing on the West Coast," Wolken wrote. "It's not quite the same vibe across town, where the patina of endless possibility has eroded over the past 4 1/2 years into a new and urgent reality for Lincoln Riley."

#coach #riley #college

The Slipper Still Fits sat down with the former leader of the Gonzaga Bulldogs from 1997-99, the man who helped orchestrate the name of this website through that magical 1999 Elite Eight run.
Dan Monson is now the head coach of the Eastern Washington Eagles. The 2026-27 group in nearby Cheney, Washington, plays a stacked non-conference slate on the road at the Stanford Cardinals, Oregon Ducks, Oregon State Beavers, Utah Utes, UNLV Runnin' Rebels, Loyola Marymount Lions, and Wyoming Cowboys. Plus, a neutral-site game with the Washington State Cougars in the Spokane Arena for the 509 Classic on Dec. 22. It feels like Monson was taking a page right out of Gonzaga's playbook to schedule heavily in the first half of the season.
He spoke about his recent trip to Springfield, Massachusetts, for Mark Few's Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame induction, leaving Spokane, Washington, for the Minnesota Golden Gophers job, the current messy state of the NCAA, and learning from his dad, the late great Don Monson, in the Tri Cities.
Arden Cravalho is a Gonzaga University graduate from the Bay Area… Follow him on X a_cravalho

#gonzaga #oregon #still #fits

Auburn football lost all three scholarship quarterbacks from last season's roster to the transfer portal. One of those quarterbacks, Ashton Daniels, has locked in a starting role with Florida State. What is the status of the other two quarterbacks heading into the new season?
It was expected that Deuce Knight would sit behind Trinidad Chambliss at Ole Miss, but Jackson Arnold joined UNLV's roster with a fair chance of winning the starting quarterback job. However, he has not officially claimed it.
UNLV head coach Dan Mullen was asked about the quarterback situation in Las Vegas ahead of the Rebels' week zero game against Memphis at Allegiant Stadium, and shared that neither Arnold nor Alex Orji has claimed the starting job. Mullen claims that the starter will be dictated by the opening play of Saturday's game, which has yet to be drawn up. However, both quarterbacks will see the field on Saturday.
Arnold transferred to UNLV following the coaching change from Hugh Freeze to Alex Golesh, leaving Auburn after spending just one season. He was named the starting quarterback for the Tigers after spending two seasons with Oklahoma, and went on to start eight games for Auburn before the job was handed over to Ashton Daniels.
In 10 total appearances, Arnold passed for 1,309 yards and six touchdowns, adding 311 yards on the ground with eight touchdowns. Now with his third college program, Arnold hopes to find his stride with UNLV and become the quarterback he was projected to become as a five-star prospect out of high school.

#quarterback

Isaiah Mack-Russell, a class of 2027 guard at Winton Woods High School, announced via Instagram his commitment to UNLV.
Mack-Russell, the Enquirer's 2025-26 Div. II boys' basketball player of the year, had offers from Cincinnati and Xavier, in addition to Arizona State, Nebraska, Ohio State, Virginia, Washington, South Florida, Bowling Green, Kent State, Ohio, Liberty, Toledo, Creighton, Dayton and Detroit Mercy.
Mack-Russell led the Eastern Cincinnati Conference in scoring last season with 23.7 points per game. His 43-point game against Withrow including 10-of-15 from 3-point range.
The Runnin' Rebels finished last season 18-17 overall, 11-9 in the Mountain West Conference in Josh Pastner's first season as head coach. They reached the NIT second round.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Isaiah Mack-Russell, Winton Woods Class of 2027 guard, commits to UNLV

#mack #cincinnati

Memphis football is officially in game week.
The Tigers will face UNLV in Las Vegas on Aug. 29 (9 p.m., FOX). And it's a game that could have College Football Playoff implications.
"There's so many different storylines," UNLV coach Dan Mullen said at his press conference on Aug. 24.
For one, the Tigers and Rebels will play on national television as one of the marquee games during the opening weekend of the season. Both teams are expected to compete near the top of their respective conferences, so it could be a game that gets talked about later in the season when potential playoff resumes are being compared.
"You won't feel it maybe after this game, but there's going to be a lot of discussion about this game as the season goes on," Mullen said. "Especially late into November. It can have a lot of implications on who's where for the playoff race."

#playoff #season #implications

The offseason is over, and college football is back … for a few teams, at least.
As in recent years, the regular season will start with a "Week Zero" handful of games. The vast majority of FBS teams will begin play a week later.
Even with an eight-game slate on tap for Saturday, Aug. 29, there is still plenty to look for as the college football season begins.
The day begins as North Carolina takes on TCU in Dublin, Ireland. This will be the official start of Year 2 in the Bill Belichick era at UNC, and he will be looking to improve on the disappointing 4-8 2025 campaign that included a 48-14 blowout loss to TCU in the season opener.
Saturday's slate concludes as Memphis heads west to take on UNLV. Charles Huff will debut as the Tigers' new head coach after going 7-5 with Southern Miss last season. The Rebels are not only preseason favorites in the Mountain West, but also many ***** ysts' choice to get the Group of Six College Football Playoff spot.

#season #start #slate #zero

Nebraska's season-opening opponent has announced its starting quarterback. Pete Thamel has reported that Ohio has named Nick Poulos the starter for the Bobcats' game against the Huskers in Lincoln.
This will be Poulos' first season as the starter after spending his last two seasons as a backup. In 12 games, he has thrown for 290 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception while completing only 45.6% of his passes.
The quarterback's legs will also be a factor in Ohio's spread option offense. He has also run for 184 yards and one touchdown in his career.
Ohio is coming off a 2025 season that saw the Bobcats finish with a 9-4 record and a victory over UNLV in the Frisco Bowl. The 2026 MAC coaches preseason poll picked Ohio to finish fourth with zero votes to win the MAC Championship.
Nebraska opens the 2026 season on Saturday, Sept. 5, when the Ohio Bobcats visit Memorial Stadium. Kickoff time is set for 11 a.m. CT and can be seen on FS1.

#starter #yards

The Nebraska Cornhuskers have named the starting quarterback for the season opener. Anthony Colandrea will start for the Huskers on September 5 against the Ohio Bobcats.
Colandrea joins Nebraska following a breakout junior year with the UNLV Rebels. The St. Petersburg, Florida, native finished the 2025 season throwing for 3,459 yards, 23 touchdowns, and nine interceptions with a 65.9 completion percentage. He also added 649 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns.
The former Rebel's play earned him the Mountain West Offensive Player of the Year award. Before UNLV, Colandrea played two seasons at Virginia. He joined a Nebraska team that was looking for a new opening-day starter after Dylan Raiola transferred to the Oregon Ducks.
The Husker quarterback room also includes sophomore and bowl game starter T.J. Lateef and former Virginia quarterback Daniel Kaelin.
Nebraska opens the 2026 season on Saturday, Sept. 5, when the Ohio Bobcats visit Memorial Stadium. Kickoff time is set for 11 a.m. CT and can be seen on FS1.

#colandrea

UNLV transfer forward Kimani Hamilton has signed with Mississippi State, On3's Pete Nakos reports. Hamilton began his collegiate career at Mississippi State (2022-23).
To keep up with the latest players on the move, check out On3's Transfer Portal wire. The On3 Transfer Portal Instagram account and Twitter account are excellent resources to stay up to date with the latest moves.

#unlv

AJ Storr has announced his college commitment - for the fifth and presumably final time.
In taking full advantage of the transfer portal, Storr, who spent one season with the Wisconsin basketball team three seasons ago, revealed the fifth school he will play for during his five-year college career.
Yes, that's five different programs in five years.
For his final school, Storr will play for UNLV during the 2026-2027 season, he announced on his Instagram on Tuesday, Aug. 18.
"Committed," he wrote in the caption of the post.

#fifth #season #play #wisconsin

AJ Storr has announced his college commitment - for the fifth and presumably final time.
In taking full advantage of the transfer portal, Storr, who spent one season with the Wisconsin basketball team three seasons ago, revealed the fifth school he will play for during his five-year college career.
Yes, that's five different programs in five years.
For his final school, Storr will play for UNLV during the 2026-2027 season, he announced on his Instagram on Tuesday, Aug. 18.
"Committed," he wrote in the caption of the post.

#final

For the first time in decades, Memphis football is not scheduled to face a power conference opponent in 2026.
Other than 2020, when a matchup against Purdue was canceled, Memphis has played a power conference opponent in every season going back to at least 1960. That won't be the case in 2026, when the Tigers will face Boise State, UNLV, Arkansas State and UT-Martin in non-conference play.
Memphis won't play a power conference opponent in 2027, either.
"If we can get P4s to play us, we'll play them," athletic director Ed Scott said on "The Gary Parrish Show" on Aug. 18. "If I was the athletic director at certain P4s, especially in the geographic area we live in, I would not play Memphis. It's not a win-win for them like it is for us."
Football scheduling is done years and sometimes decades in advance, so Scott hasn't had much control over Memphis' future schedules. The SEC's move to nine conference games also creates a hurdle for Memphis, and it's the reason Arkansas moved a planned 2026 game to 2030.

#arkansas #scott #Football

Michigan made two key additions on special teams this offseason via the transfer portal — kicker Trey Butkowski (Pitt) and Cam Brown (UNLV).
Butkowski was 20-of-23 last season, going 6-of-9 from 40-49 yards out. Brown, a native of Australia, punted 22 times last season as a freshman, with a 42.9-yard average and long of 71 yards.
Speaking with the media on Thursday, Michigan special teams coordinator Kerry Coombs spoke about Butkowski and Brown.
"This is a guy who's done it, and we're going to go out there and roll with him," Coombs said of Butkowski.
Coombs was impressed by Butkowski's accuracy despite playing in a windy home stadium environment at Pitt.

#brown #pitt #season #going

What would you do with $2-5 million?
Buy a reasonably priced home? Not in this market. What about paying off some debt? That's a reasonable idea. Set aside a little to wager on some college football? Could win or lose yourself some money that way. (It is Vegas we're talking about after all.) You could also buy roughly 2 million Mountain Dew Baja Blasts from Taco Bell if you are like me and love the Bell.
But, as one of our recent SB Nation Reacts Surveys will show, plenty of you would use that chunk of change to purchase the UNLV men's basketball team that is TOTALLY NOT FOR SALE if you ask Josh Pastner (again).
Forty percent of voters picked the $2-5 million range, which felt like a low-ball given how that is the going rate for some of college sport's most coveted players. How much can one UNLV men's basketball be worth? Possibly one whole Yaxel Lendeborg, apparently.
Thirty percent picked $10 million and up, which was what UNLV head coach Josh Pastner valued his team at when he jokingly said someone should buy the program, which started this fun hypothetical — one that feels all too possible with private equity and venture capital circling our beloved college sports.

#josh #pastner #Basketball

CHICAGO − If Charles Correa was still looking for confirmation that his transfer from UNLV to Purdue football a year ago was the right move, he got it at Big Ten Media Days.
As the junior linebacker was conducting interviews, sitting to his left were his parents, who raised Correa more than 4,000 miles away in Kuli'ou'ou, Hawaii.
Families of Purdue's Big Ten Media Days attendees - Correa, receiver De'Nylon Morrissette and quarterback Ryan Browne - were invited guests courtesy of Purdue's football program.
Each school is allotted six VIP passes for the event, this year at the Hilton Chicago. Those passes typically get bestowed to university representatives or donors. Head coach Barry Odom, setting a family-first culture in his second year leading the Boilermakers, wanted those closest to his players to get the behind-the-scenes access.
"They're the reason I am here to begin with," Correa said of having his parents by his side. "I owe them everything up to this point in my life, and for them to be able to experience all these cool things with me has been truly special."

#Media #charles

On Friday afternoon, a preliminary injunction granted by a Colorado U.S. District Court judge gave athletes from the 2022 high school class a fifth season of eligibility, creating another transfer portal opportunity window in August.
This is something that the Kentucky Basketball staff has been monitoring as an avenue to add the 15th and final player to the roster.
One name that the Wildcats have monitored is Auburn transfer Keyshawn Hall. According to a source, Kentucky conducted a Zoom call with Hall on Monday.
Hall has played for four schools in four seasons. Starting his career at UNLV, he has since played for George Mason, UCF, and Auburn last season.
While at Auburn, Hall averaged 19.3 points and 7.1 rebounds per game on 45/38/86 shooting clips, with a 60.6 true shooting percentage. The 6-foot-7 wing could bring versatility and shot creation at the 4 spot. He can even play the 3 in big lineups.

#shooting

New Mexico State announced on Monday, Aug. 3 that Jaime Christian has been hired as the Aggies' new running back coach. Christian's addition comes just three days after former NM State running backs coach, general manager and ******* istant head coach David Cobb was fired for an unknown reason after being placed on administrative leave.
Christian began his coaching career in 2000 and has been an ******* istant coach or graduate ******* istant for six collegiate teams. He was most recently Oregon State's special teams coordinator from 2024-25 and New Mexico's special teams coordinator from 2020-23. He was also the Lobos' running backs coach in 2022.
Christian is familiar with Sanchez, having been UNLV's running backs coach during the first two seasons of Sanchez's tenure there from 2015-16. The Rebels rushed for 241.5 yards per game in 2016, which ranked 15th in the country and was UNLV's highest average since 1979.
Christian has spent some of this offseason with the Aggies in an ******* yst role, which has allowed for his quick transition to being the team's new running backs coach.
"We're excited to welcome Coach Christian to NM State," Sanchez said in a press release. "He is a proven coach with experience developing players and contributing to successful programs. I had the opportunity to have him on my staff at UNLV and I've seen the hard work and leadership he brings to a staff every day. His experience coaching running backs at multiple levels will be a great ******* et to our program as we get ready for the season."

#running

After a few days of training camp, one undrafted Washington Commanders rookie continues to stand out: wide receiver Jaden Bradley.
This isn't new for Bradley, the 6-foot-3 wideout from UNLV. He stood out during the spring in OTAs and minicamp. That trend has continued early in training camp. Star wide receiver Terry McLaurin was seen mentoring Bradley last week.
McLaurin shared his excitement about the undrafted rookie.
"I think he has a unique skillset where he's a bigger receiver, but he moves very smoothly," McLaurin said. "His releases are very smooth. He's sudden in his releases. He has really good feet at the top. He kind of has a pro-like feel. For him, it's just gonna be about detailing it, splits, timing. When you're running down the field, keeping your shoulder close so you can track the ball over your shoulder. Red zone, it's not as much ***** e, so you gotta hold that defender off so you can give the quarterback more ***** e to throw in that back corner of the end zone. Just little tidbits like that I try to pass along with him, but he's a sponge, man. He's been asking questions since he first got here and obviously he's undrafted."None of this means that Bradley will make the 53-man roster. While much has been made of the Commanders' need for a legit No. 2 receiver, there is great depth at the position. Could Bradley have a strong enough summer to force his way into one of those final spots?
Now, it's head coach Dan Quinn's turn to praise Bradley.

#wide