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Newport Harbor flag football tops rival CdM, repeats as undefeated league champion
2 months, 1 week ago

Newport Harbor flag football tops rival CdM, repeats as undefeated league champion

LA Times  

Newport Harbor players celebrate a touchdown by Cooper Dick during the Battle of the Bay girls’ flag football game against Corona del Mar on Monday. The Newport Harbor High girls’ flag football team had secured the win against Corona del Mar in the closing seconds Monday night. Newport Harbor’s Skylie Cid makes a catch on the run during girls’ flag …

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Woody Marks finally getting the chance to unleash his total skill set at USC
2 months, 1 week ago

Woody Marks finally getting the chance to unleash his total skill set at USC

LA Times  

As Woody Marks weighed his football future last winter, Darren Myles was frank with his former running back. “He’s showcasing it again, what he didn’t get to showcase the last four years at Mississippi State — that he can actually run!” USC running back Woody Marks runs through Utah State safety Jordan Vincent to score a touchdown at the Coliseum …

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Estancia football takes first loss as offense stalls versus University
3 months, 1 week ago

Estancia football takes first loss as offense stalls versus University

LA Times  

Estancia kick returner Brandon Bettinghausen finds open space and runs around the defense for a touchdown against University on Thursday. There’s no way we should have won that game, with five turnovers.. We stunk up the place on offense tonight.. Just a nightmare.” Brown topped 100 yards for the third straight week, finishing with 127 on 21 carries, but it …

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Mike Leach is still part of Mississippi State, but there’s no sob story in Starkville
1 year, 5 months ago

Mike Leach is still part of Mississippi State, but there’s no sob story in Starkville

New York Times  

— Drive up to Mississippi expecting a sob story, one of a football program crushed by grief and trying to rebuild in the honor and image of the iconic coach gone too soon. 3: “We had a bowl game to win.” Mississippi State was 8-4 and in the midst of something of a breakthrough season in Leach’s third year. “I …

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AFL Gather Round is about to put Mount Barker's new football oval on the sporting landscape
1 year, 8 months ago

AFL Gather Round is about to put Mount Barker's new football oval on the sporting landscape

ABC  

If you looked at a recent satellite image of the site of the next AFL match between North Melbourne and Brisbane, you would probably see little more than parched fields and sheep paddocks. Key points: Mount Barker's new sporting complex will host an AFL match in just over a fortnight Work is underway to boost capacity at the oval to …

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Mississippi State hires DC Zach Arnett to replace Leach
2 years ago

Mississippi State hires DC Zach Arnett to replace Leach

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! 24 Mississippi State is promoting defensive coordinator Zach Arnett to head coach to replace Mike Leach, who died suddenly of a heart condition earlier this week. Arnett was put in charge of the team by Mississippi State officials in Leach’s absence. With the early signing period …

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Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach dies at 61
2 years ago

Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach dies at 61

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Gruff, pioneering and unfiltered, Mississippi State’s Mike Leach was one of the most influential football coaches of this or any generation. Thank you for sharing in the joy of our beloved husband and father’s life.” In 21 seasons as a head coach at Texas Tech, Washington …

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Mind of Mike: Expansive coaching tree part of Leach’s legacy
2 years ago

Mind of Mike: Expansive coaching tree part of Leach’s legacy

Associated Press  

When Mike Leach first moved to Mississippi State from Washington State, he stayed in the Left Field Lofts at the Bulldogs’ baseball stadium. Running the prolific Air Raid offense he learned from Hal Mumme as an assistant early in his career, Leach’s teams went 158-107 and often set records along the way. And that’s why he was able to turn …

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Mississippi St faces tough decisions following Leach’s death
2 years ago

Mississippi St faces tough decisions following Leach’s death

Associated Press  

24 Mississippi State will be playing in the ReliaQuest Bowl against Illinois on Jan. 2 in Tampa, Florida. “Our players are excited about going to the ReliaQuest Bowl and they will play in honor of Coach Leach,” Mississippi State interim athletic director Bracky Brett told The Associated Press. Brett said he would defer any questions on the search for new …

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Mike Leach dead: The Mississippi State coach’s Air Raid offense transformed college football.
2 years ago

Mike Leach dead: The Mississippi State coach’s Air Raid offense transformed college football.

Slate  

Most of the coaches who stand out as singular entities in the big sweep of college football got there because they won, won, and won. As author S.C. Gwynne chronicles in The Perfect Pass, a tome of the system that Mumme once told me I should read, the Air Raid was a radical shift when Mumme and Leach developed it …

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‘You changed my life’: Lincoln Riley, others honor late coach Mike Leach
2 years ago

‘You changed my life’: Lincoln Riley, others honor late coach Mike Leach

LA Times  

Mike Leach first helped revolutionize college football offenses during his tenure at Texas Tech, planting what became a vast coaching tree and inspiring his peers. All of our prayers are with Sharon & the Leach family - Rest In Peace my friend.” West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen, who also was part of Leach’s staff at Texas Tech early in his …

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Pioneering college football coach Mike Leach dies at 61
2 years ago

Pioneering college football coach Mike Leach dies at 61

LA Times  

Mike Leach, the gruff, pioneering and unfiltered college football coach who helped revolutionize the passing game with the Air Raid offense, died Monday night following complications from a heart condition, Mississippi State said Tuesday. Riley made the most of the opportunity to soak up essential traits of Leach’s Air Raid offense, fast-tracking his ascent as a young college football coaching …

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Appreciation: ‘Call anytime.’ Football great Mike Leach always seemed eager to learn from others
2 years ago

Appreciation: ‘Call anytime.’ Football great Mike Leach always seemed eager to learn from others

LA Times  

Mississippi State coach Mike Leach looks across the field during a game against Georgia on Nov. 14. Sports Pioneering college football coach Mike Leach dies at 61 Mississippi State says football coach Mike Leach has died following complications from a heart condition at the age of 61. Today, with the official announcement that Leach died following complications from a heart …

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Mike Leach, college football coach who made the Air Raid mainstream, dies at 61
2 years ago

Mike Leach, college football coach who made the Air Raid mainstream, dies at 61

New York Times  

There is an alternate universe where the committee that selected the new football coach for the Key West High Conchs chose correctly in 1996. “Coach Mike Leach cast a tremendous shadow not just over Mississippi State University, but over the entire college football landscape,” MSU president Mark E. Keenum said in a statement. “The place is like Disneyland, only without …

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Commentary: Where does Lincoln Riley’s first-year turnaround at USC fit in college football history?
2 years ago

Commentary: Where does Lincoln Riley’s first-year turnaround at USC fit in college football history?

LA Times  

USC defensive back Calen Bullock reacts with defensive backs Max Williams and Latrell McCutchin after intercepting a pass late in the game against Notre Dame at the Coliseum on Saturday. So, USC’s wondrous whirlwind from 4-8 to 11-1 and the doorstep of the College Football Playoff in Lincoln Riley’s first season got me to thinking this week: Where does Riley’s …

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Inside Lincoln Riley’s Air Raid offense, known for constant evolution and misdirection
2 years, 3 months ago

Inside Lincoln Riley’s Air Raid offense, known for constant evolution and misdirection

LA Times  

The ideas that would one day inspire a football revolution had been rattling around in Hal Mumme’s head for a few years before he finally had the chance to use them. You dream about it.” — Lincoln Riley “I was always impressed that Lincoln wasn’t shy about sharing his thoughts, even though there were older, more experienced coaches in there,” …

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Air Raid evolution: Pioneering offense passes test of time
2 years, 3 months ago

Air Raid evolution: Pioneering offense passes test of time

Associated Press  

Mike Leach settles into a leather chair in his office overlooking Mississippi State’s practice field after a routine spring session with his team and is asked to give a status report on the Air Raid offense, which has been carving up major-college defenses for the last 25 years. Other Air Raid descendants who are currently FBS head coaches include USC’s …

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Leach: 3 Miss. State players depart, RB Hill possibly next
4 years, 1 month ago

Leach: 3 Miss. State players depart, RB Hill possibly next

Associated Press  

— Mississippi State coach Mike Leach said that receiver Tyrell Shavers and defensive ends Tre Lawson and Jamari Stewart are no longer with the program that he has also heard that senior back Kylin Hill plans to opt out for the rest of the season to prepare for the NFL draft. Hill has caught 23 passes for 237 yards and …

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