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Byline: Dave Nichols Nov. 3The Washington State Football Coaches Association announced matchups for the Week 10 state football play-in games for 4A, 3A, 2A and 1A on Sunday. For the [...]

Byline: Devin Jackson Oct. 31Downingtown West football coach Thomas Kline still remembers the last time Drew Shelton caught a touchdown pass during a seven-on-seven tournament the summer before the 2019 [...]

Byline: Tom Miller Oct. 29GRAND FORKS UND football coach Bubba Schweigert has already heard from the critics of the Fighting Hawks' play call on a 2-point conversion in overtime that [...]

Byline: JIM PICKENS If Western Kentucky head football coach Tyson Helton didn't have his team's attention with regard to playing former Conference USA cellar-dweller Kennesaw State before last week, he [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer If your favorite NFL team is starving for a new coach and quarterback -- Combo No. 1 on the loser's menu -- there are more options than [...]

Byline: JIM PICKENS ANONYMOUS COACH Each week, the Messenger-Inquirer will ask a high school football head coach or assistant coach to critique one of the upcoming games in the Owensboro [...]

Byline: Kyle Fredrickson ENGLEWOOD Vance Joseph might emerge as an NFL head coaching candidate with the Broncos defense surging through seven games. Denver (4-3) hosts the Carolina Panthers (1-6) on [...]

Byline: Gabriela Carroll Oct. 24Kyle Schwarber will represent Indiana on Saturday as the guest picker on ESPN's College GameDay ahead of the Hoosiers' game against Washington. 'Can't wait to see [...]

Byline: Gabriela Carroll Oct. 24The first evaluation Zac Taylor ever made as an NFL coach was of Eagles offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, then a quarterback coming out of Boise State. [...]

Byline: Gavin Keefe Oct. 22STORRS On the ride home after a football game, UConn coach Jim Mora usually picks up his iPad and watches video. Mora slightly altered his routine [...]

Byline: Jim Naveau Oct. 22COLUMBUS Ohio State football coach Ryan Day spent more time than usual in the defensive coaches' meetings last week during a bye week and a major [...]

Byline: Tom Miller Oct. 21CROOKSTON, Minn. Six days before the start of girls tennis practice two years ago, the Crookston girls tennis program needed a head coach after the previous [...]

Byline: Amy Libby Oct. 19It feels more life fall. Will the rain continue? Check out our local weather forecast before you head outside. Here are some of the top stories [...]

Byline: Kyle Fredrickson The Denver Gazette sports business insider is a reader's guide to understanding the influence of money, politics and power behind their favorite leagues, teams and players: Sports [...]

Byline: Noah Ferguson Navy football coach Brian Newberry has warned his team all season about, in his words, 'choking on the sugar.' It has been a whirlwind start to the [...]

Byline: Aaron Carter Oct. 18Was it a father's intuition? Perhaps an angel in his ear? Whatever it was, Troy Gore knew he needed his Uber driver to make a U-turn, [...]

Byline: Meg Wochnick Oct. 17In 1981, a young Steve Kizer got his start coaching football by overseeing defensive backs at Western Washington University for $1,000. With his college playing career [...]

Byline: Caleb Suggs Oct. 17TRINITY Drew Phillips didn't mince words. 'We're a run first mentality team, and the reason we're that is because our offensive line gives us that sense [...]

Byline: Olivia Reiner Oct. 15No, Nick Sirianni did not make a defensive play call in Sunday's win against the Cleveland Browns, Vic Fangio echoed on Tuesday. In Sirianni's postgame press [...]

Byline: Adam Kilgore; Neil Greenberg The evolution of NFL coaching strategy remains ongoing, but the revolution is over. It was bloodless, save for a Jason Garrett here and an Antonio [...]

Byline: Travis Lazarczyk Oct. 11NAPLES Mike Meehan, the Lake Region High football coach, is relieved to know the big injury that came out of his team's impressive 54-26 win over [...]

Byline: Mike DiMauro Oct. 10This is the time of year it gets harder for high school football coaches and their often repeated psalm of 'one game at a time.' Now [...]

Byline: Chris Tomasson ENGLEWOOD - Tuesday was a day off for Broncos players and quarterback Bo Nix was thinking of 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.' After a heated sideline exchange between [...]

Byline: Larry Mahoney Oct. 8A familiar name is directing the Maine Maritime Academy football program. Bill Mottola, son of the former MMA football coach and athletic director of the same [...]

Byline: Kyle Fredrickson The biggest drama in the Broncos-Raiders game took place on the home sideline. Rookie quarterback Bo Nix and coach Sean Payton exchanged words in a lengthy and [...]

Byline: Adam Kilgore Last weekend, on another Sunday in repose after a lifetime coaching football, Carl Smith wore a Cleveland Browns hat. Smith oversaw Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson not long [...]

Byline: Peter Harriman Oct. 4MOSCOW, Idaho Northern Arizona (3-2, 1-0) will look to defeat another Big Sky Conference foe and ranked opponent. In its homecoming game, Idaho (3-2, 0-1) will [...]

Byline: Jim Naveau Oct. 4Kirk Ferentz is in his 26th season as Iowa's football coach. He has won 199 games with the Hawkeyes and got his 200th career win, including [...]

Byline: Matt Cohen A man carried a large cardboard box across the rocky, uneven softball outfield that had been painted with football lines. DuVal football coach Darian McKinney, leading a [...]

Byline: Colten Bartholomew Oct. 2BadgerExtra beat reporters Colten Bartholomew and Jake Kocorowski discuss Wisconsin football coach Luke Fickell's comments Monday regarding his running backs, the Purdue matchup and more. You [...]

Byline: Hugh Johnson The Classical Academy's girls' flag football quarterback sophomore Kelsey Peterson and coach Frank Haist have been preparing for this season their entire lives. They just may not [...]

Byline: Jim Naveau Oct. 1Football coaches like to see running backs and receivers get involved in blocking and Ryan Day is no exception. OSU's Emeka Egbuka is one of the [...]

Byline: RYAN T. BLYSTONE The Bakersfield Jockey Club, an organization honoring the accomplishments of local high school and college student-athletes, opens its 2024-25 programming at 8 a.m. Tuesday at Hodel's [...]

Byline: JOSEPH RUSSELL It took a little time for Owensboro Catholic to find its stride on an uncharacteristic Saturday night of high school football, but the Aces eventually found their [...]

Byline: Travis Lazarczyk Sep. 27WATERBORO Deering football coach Brendan Scully kept the halftime message to his team simple. 'You're better than this. You're letting them take it to you. We're [...]

Sep. 27FARGO Grand Forks Red River head football coach Vyrn Muir had his head buried in an I-pad during the Roughriders' first two offensive possessions, as he attempted to fix [...]

Byline: Jim Naveau Sep. 27Michigan State will induct its former football coach Mark Dantonio into its Ring of Honor at Saturday night's game against Ohio State. Dantonio is being honored [...]

Byline: Mike DiMauro Sep. 27MONTVILLE It wasn't over for five minutes Friday night when Gabe Lombardi's teammates started calling him 'No Fly Zone,' in tribute to his work thus far [...]

Byline: BRENT BRIGGEMAN Happy birthday, Troy Calhoun. The Air Force football coach turned 58 Thursday and his program/alma mater was greeted with quite the gift from the Mountain West. The [...]

Byline: Gabriela Carroll Sep. 26Howie Roseman has overseen one of the most successful eras in Eagles history. With Roseman in the drivers' seat, the Birds won their first Super Bowl, [...]

Byline: Chris Tomasson WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. * Sean Payton has been coaching in the NFL since 1997, and he's never seen a player battle through an injury the way [...]

Byline: Dylan Wells Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will campaign in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Saturday, attending the football game between the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota. The [...]

Byline: Abby Sharpe Sep. 24GRAND FORKS One of Isaac Fruechte's first stops in Grand Forks was the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center, where he caught a UND men's basketball game with [...]

Byline: Jim Polzin Sep. 24Today's featured Open Jim mailbag question comes from @JRbadgers93 on X. Is there a possible disconnect between coach Luke Fickell and offensive coordinator Phil Longo? Longo [...]

Byline: Marcus Hayes PHILADELPHIA Last season, after several weeks of self-inflicted drama from the Eagles, I contacted several current or former NFL executives and coaches with connections to the Eagles [...]

Sep. 23With longtime defensive coordinator Glen Flanagan taking the helm as Woodland's new head football coach, the defensive performance in the Beavers' 12-0 victory over Washougal on Friday is just [...]