UNLV concluded spring football drills Saturday under first-year coach Tony Sanchez with a showcase scrimmage at the school’s soccer complex.
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Blake Decker all but locked up UNLV’s starting quarterback job in Saturday’s spring game, completing 5 of 5 passes for 166 yards and three touchdowns. Devonte Boyd caught four passes for 132 yards and three touchdowns.
A lawyer for college football star quarterback Jameis Winston, a contender for the top pick in the upcoming National Football League draft, on Friday labeled as a “stunt” the lawsuit filed a day earlier in a Florida court by a woman who says he raped her.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel issued a statement Friday, apologizing to the organization and fans, after spending 10 weeks at a rehab treatment facility.
UNLV finishes spring football practices with the spring game at noon Saturday at Johann Memorial Field. Returning starting quarterback Blake Decker, who is competing with two other players at the position, will take most of the first-team snaps.
After deliberating for more than 35 hours over parts of seven days, listening intently to the testimony of more than 130 witnesses and reviewing more than 400 pieces of evidence, the teary-eyed men and women of the jury exchanged embraces.
College football star Jameis Winston was sued on Thursday in Florida court by a woman who has accused him of raping her in 2012 while she was a student at Florida State University.
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, who was suspended by the NFL for using a tree branch to discipline his son, has been reinstated, the league said on Thursday.
Becoming mediocre would do more than represent improvement for the UNLV defense. It would be nearly miraculous for a side of the football that has been a liability for many years. The Rebels have allowed more than 30 points and 400 yards per game every season since 2008.
Former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez will need to keep his lawyers even after being convicted of murder and other charges in the death of Odin Lloyd.
Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Ike Taylor is walking away from the NFL after 12 seasons with the franchise.
A former NFL running back for the San Francisco 49ers who was sent to a California prison for domestic violence, vehicle theft and other charges, is a suspect in the death of his cellmate, officials said on Monday.
Fresh off a national title, Ohio State has extended coach Urban Meyer’s contract through the 2020 season.
Whenever a professional athlete even hints that he might play a second pro sport, it attracts attention. Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson created that kind of intrigue by refusing to close the door on a professional baseball career when he interviewed for HBO’s “Real Sports.”
The jury in the murder trial of former National Football League player Aaron Hernandez began its fifth day of deliberations on Monday over whether he is guilty of killing an acquaintance in 2013, in the first of two murder trials he will face this year.
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