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College Basketball Extra | Ten players you don’t know but should The News-Gazette
Army looking for an opponent for this Saturday FBSchedules.com
Around the American Athletic Conference
The American Today: Tulane, USF Earn Nonconference Wins in Week 2 American Athletic Conference
UCF football moves up into top 15 in latest national polls Orlando Sentinel
JUST IN: UCF Knights Football Moves Up From 21st to 13th in Latest Amway Coaches Poll Space Coast Daily
Cincinnati Bearcats football team ranked No. 13 in newest AP poll Cincinnati Enquirer
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- Memphis comes in at No. 16 on initial regular season AP Top 25
- Questions remain at cornerback for UCF ahead of Georgia Tech
- Mac Brown says so long to rugby-style punts
USF tops the Citadel in Jeff Scott’s coaching debut Tampa Bay Times
Memphis Commercial Appeal
- Tigers move up to No. 15 in Coaches Poll, No. 16 in AP Top 25
- Florida State, Mike Norvell already in misery after loss
- Memphis-Houston game on Friday postponed
The Latest: Baylor, Houston to face off Saturday in Waco San Francisco Chronicle
Houston cancels opener, schedules road game against Baylor Dave Campbell’s Texas Football
Grant Stuard always goes all-out for University of Houston defense Houston Chronicle
Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond
College Football Week 2 Roundup: 5 Things That Matter, Winners, Losers, Overrated, Underrated College Football News
Winston Salem Journal
- App State’s Shawn Clark apologizes to Charlotte coach Will Healy after social media post, spokesman says
- App State mentioned a running back rotation during camp. Here’s how they used the group against Charlotte
- My Take On Others: Wow this is going to be a fun year (for now)
- COVID-19 has overwhelmed some college campuses. At area universities, case numbers remain relatively small
Charlotte Observer
- Why would the parents of a Charlotte 49ers QB drive to a game they couldn’t see? Love
- App State coach Shawn Clark apologizes to Charlotte’s Will Healy for offensive photo
Raleigh News and Observer
- Boom! These huge plays got Sam Howell and UNC’s offense rolling against Syracuse
- Tar Heels’ defense shows more than just offense can win games this season
- Dominant Tar Heels finally arrived in 4th quarter to topple Syracuse, open season 1-0
- NC State coaches, athletes and students marched on campus while others played football
- Coach Kevin Keatts revisits a summer of uncertainty and reassembling his Wolfpack team
- The NC State defense might be rusty, but Wolpack is ready to tackle this key concern
Huntington Herald-Dispatch
- WVU football: Neal Brown considers big rushing day a good start
- Appy State was mistake-prone in opening win vs. Charlotte
- Appalachian State ranked No. 24 in latest Associated Press poll
Charleston Post Courier
- CCU stifles comeback bid from Kansas as it dominates season opener, 38-23
- Gamecocks’ starting quarterback remains a mystery 12 days before opener
- Sapakoff: Dear Big Ten and Pac-12, How ’bout Clemson, CCU and Corso?
- Clemson crushes Wake Forest in football season opener unlike any other
- 7 takeaways from Clemson’s castigation of Wake Forest
Columbia The State
- 5 things we learned from Clemson’s win against Wake Forest
- Some fans criticized Clemson’s social justice helmet stickers. Dabo responds
- 7 photos that show Clemson’s football game vs. Wake Forest was no ordinary opener
- Still no decision in South Carolina starting QB battle. The latest
- What Will Muschamp liked, who improved in Gamecocks’ final scrimmage
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Georgia remains No. 4 in poll reset following season start
- 5 takeaways from Georgia Tech’s upset of Florida State
Will the Big Ten flip six votes and restart football? We’ll know soon Detroit News
Associated Press
- AP Top 25: La.-Lafayette leads 10 new teams in rankings
- POLL ALERT: Clemson still No. 1; La.-Lafayette, App St, 8 other teams join Top 25 missing schools not scheduled to play
- After presidents meet, Big Ten football still in limbo
- Without fall playoffs, FCS schools missing a top attraction
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
Charlotte Observer
- Here’s the most important thing we learned about Panthers QB Teddy Bridgewater in debut
- It can’t be just McCaffrey and Moore. Robby Anderson must be a star for Panthers offense
- For the Panthers to be good, the ball must be in Christian McCaffrey’s hands
- McCaffrey following loss to Raiders: ‘It definitely hurts’
- Here’s what the Panthers’ loss to the Raiders taught us. (It’s more good than bad.)
- The Las Vegas Raiders (Cindy Gruden-Tiger Woods) audible heard around the world
- Panthers were sloppy in 1st game of Matt Rhule era, but loss to Raiders showed promise
- Fake crowd noise in NFL stadiums for Week 1 doesn’t sound like an early hit with fans
Ed Hardin: With the game on the line, the wrong player had the ball in his hands Winston Salem Journal
NASCAR: Keselowski backs up talk, dominates in playoff victory at Richmond Norfolk Virginian Pilot
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Another year, another Falcons’ opening flop
- This wasn’t ‘new team, new story’ for Falcons defense
- Falcons lose third-straight season opener
- Scene at Falcons opener sadly unlike any other
- Two plays turned the tide in Falcons’ loss to Seahawks
- Falcons stand during both anthems; Seahawks protest
New York Times
- When You Love — and Loathe — Watching the N.F.L.
- The Eerie Silence of an N.F.L. Stadium Makes the Game Even More for TV
- What We Learned From Week 1 of the N.F.L. Season
- Dominic Thiem Comes Back From Down 2 Sets to Win U.S. Open Final
- This U.S. Open Will Be Judged by the Future of Osaka and Thiem
- A’ja Wilson for M.V.P., and More W.N.B.A. Awards Picks
Washington Post
- On the first NFL Sunday of the pandemic, a mix of silence, protests and unfamiliar scenes
- Washington comes back from big deficit to defeat Eagles in Ron Rivera’s debut
- Haskins could be the reliable leader Rivera needs at quarterback
- The Washington Football Team made its most surprising change yet: It found a way to fight for a win.
- Takeaways from Washington’s comeback win over Philadelphia
- Dominic Thiem outlasts Alexander Zverev in five sets to win first U.S. Open title
- Mystics secure unlikely playoff berth with win over Dream
- Max Scherzer can’t keep it together, and the Nationals fall to the Braves
- U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka let her masks do the talking. In the end, she wanted to know what we heard.
- Rams christen SoFi Stadium with win over Cowboys on ‘Sunday Night Football’
- This year, MLB pennant races will be decided nine innings at a time — or sometimes seven
Baltimore Sun
- Washington gets eight sacks, rallies for 27-17 win over Eagles in first game under Ron Rivera
- In Ravens’ strange and successful season opener, there’s one ‘phenomenal’ constant: Lamar Jackson
- Instant analysis: Lamar Jackson makes it look easy as Ravens crush Browns, 38-6, in season opener
- Mike Preston’s report card: Position-by-position grades for Ravens’ 38-6 win over Browns
- Many Ravens kneel during national anthem before opener in ‘demonstration for justice and equality for all Americans’
- Bluetooth speakers and homemade first-down chains help Ravens fans celebrate victory away from M&T Bank Stadium
- Orioles fall to Yankees, 3-1, suffer four-game sweep as playoff hopes dwindle
Associated Press
- Analysis: Start of 2020 season floating on stranger tides
- Sunday in the parks: The playoffs, NFL, a no-hitter and more
- NFL Today, Week 1
- Hopkins helps Cardinals rally past 49ers 24-20
- Rams open SoFi Stadium in style with 20-17 win over Cowboys
- Brady’s 1st game with Bucs ends in 34-23 loss at New Orleans
- Same old issues on defense doom Dolphins against Patriots
- The Latest: Only 1 stadium had fans on NFL’s opening Sunday
- Racial injustice themes fill empty NFL stadiums
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