This morning, I visited Yahoo! Sports to get an update on the St. Louis Cardinals/New York Mets matinee, and there in the "sweet spot" was an easily recognizable face to those of us at SportsTriCities.com.
Lo and behold, it was a photo of Kellen Moore receiving congratulations in Eugene last year after he quarterbacked Boise State to its upset at Oregon. The reason for today's big splash on Yahoo! Sports is that content partner Rivals.com ranks BSU at No. 9 in its Top 120 countdown, and today was the Broncos turn in the spotlight as the featured program.
Click here for a link to the Rivals.com preview and to read more about Moore, who returns as a redshirt sophomore.
The biggest game in BSU's season may well be its first Sept. 3. That's when the Ducks seek payback on Boise State's blue turf.
For those who missed it, Oregon showed up last week at No. 17 in the countdown. Oregon State came in at No. 26.
Washington was way back at No. 97.
Washington State didn't even crack the Top 100. In fact, the folks at Rivals.com didn't even bother to check the headline, spelling it as "Wasgington State."
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"A lot of years, kids have left for the SEC or the Big Ten," said Adam Gorney, the West recruiting analyst for Rivals.com and Yahoo Sports. "For one reason or another, all of those kids really stayed home this year."
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Instead, it will be the job he did to persuade Tosh Lupoi to leave everything he knows to join the Washington coaching staff.
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