Fresno State News The Fresno State Alumni Association is hosting a tailgate on the road as Fresno State football visits USC on Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The tailgate, open to all fans and alumni, will be at Jesse Brewer Jr. Park (3777 Menlo Ave....
Coaches Want to Restart Football in Spring, Even if Local COVID Infections are ‘Substantial’
Fresno-area high school football coaches want to preserve at least part of the 2020-21 season for their student athletes and are proposing a spring schedule of games and playoffs, even if Fresno County is still in the red tier for COVID-19 infection rates. The coaches, who talked about their proposal...
Expansion Could Bring Football Back to WAC at FCS Level
HOUSTON — Football is returning in the Western Athletic Conference, this time at the Championship Subdivision level. The league announced this week it would add four schools from the Southland Conference and one from the Big Sky to bring its membership to 13. The five new members will join Dixie...
49ers Get Back Into Groove Headed Into Showdown in Seattle
SANTA CLARA — When the San Francisco 49ers lost back-to-back home games to Philadelphia and Miami it appeared as if the season could be spiraling out of control for the defending NFC champions. Coach Kyle Shanahan saw enough glimmers of hope in those two losses to believe a turnaround was...
Raiders Ready for Big Opening Act on Las Vegas Strip
LAS VEGAS — The Death Star comes alive for the first time Monday night in a prime-time debut that just a few years ago would have been unimaginable. The NFL in Sin City. Even the bookies in this gambling city would never have bet on this happening. It took a...
Big Ten Changes Course, Will Play Fall Football After All
Big Ten is going to give fall football a shot after all. Less than five weeks after pushing football and other fall sports to spring in the name of player safety during the pandemic, the conference changed course Wednesday and said it plans to begin its season the weekend of Oct....
Raiders Hope Offseason Changes Lead to Stingier Defense
Raiders defensive coordinator Paul Guenther felt a little hamstrung his first two years on the job. A roster overhaul left few proven pieces at his disposal and contributed to the Raiders ranking among the worst defenses in the NFL in almost every category. Guenther hopes the changes made this past...
College Football in the Spring: When? How Much? Who Plays?
Back in April, not long after the NCAA basketball tournament was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, the idea of moving the 2020 college football to the spring of 2021 already was being tossed around. A last resort is what it was called by conference commissioners and athletic directors. When...
No Football for Fresno State Until Spring 2021 at the Earliest
After President Donald Trump issued a call to save college football from a COVID-19 pandemic-forced shutdown, the Mountain West Conference said Monday it was postponing the season. That means there will be no football for Fresno State and first-year head coach Kalen DeBoer at Bulldog Stadium — or anywhere else...
Fresno State: Most Classes Virtual, Face Masks on Campus, Football up in the Air
Fresno State students and staff will wear face masks, university housing will be single occupancy, and everybody who arrives on campus will be asked to undergo daily health screenings and temperature checks in the fall semester, the university announced Friday. And, to cut potential exposure to COVID-19 and prevent the...