Saturday, July 11, 2015

Saturday--July 11th, 2015

More preseason honors for Matt Sparks and Jovan Santos-Knox. Sparks has been named to the Outland Trophy Watch List and Santos-Knox to the Bronko Nagurski Award Watch List.

NFL.com has info on the Outland Trophy Watch List.

NFL.com also has a post on the Nagurski Trophy Award Watch List.

Matty Vautour has a story about Sparks and Santos-Knox.

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Josh Maurer, the voice of UMass football and basketball will fill in for Red Sox play-by-play man Don Orsillo for a week following the All-Star break. Looking forward to listening to Josh on the NESN broadcasts.

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Central Michigan loses a DB.

Former CAA conference-mate Albany will play Buffalo this year. If Buffalo is going to play an FCS team, and the Bulls played two last year, Albany should be at the top of the list.

Nick Saban has been named to the Kent State Hall-of-Fame.

Syracuse.com previews Akron.

A NFL.com writer picks Toledo to win the MAC in 2015.

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CBS Sports says Victor Cruz thinks he will be ready for training camp.

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The Lions Blog "Pride of Detroit" looks at the team's safeties including James Ihedigbo.

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