With BYU's football opener just 52 days away people need to start getting ready. BYU opens the season at home against Arizona who beat us last year, which makes it clear that we are out for revenge. Also, we play UCLA who has a former Cougar as their starting QB. I'm sure we will show him what he is missing out on. Plus, who can forget that memorable game against Utah last year. This year will be even better because we get them at home in Lavell Edwards Stadium. Fui Vakapuna was having a very good year last year until his ankle injury and luckily he is only a junior, which means we will hopefully have him for 2 more years. Also, Austin Collie, who set a couple BYU freshman receiving records and was named a freshman all-american, is back from his mission and hopes to take the Cougars to a BCS bowl game. Even though we did lose John Beck to the Dolphins we do have Max Hall who went to the same high school as Beck and is supposed to be very good. If he can step in right where Beck left off then the Cougars will be looking at a great season. Finally, don't forget about their defense, which is often forgotten because of their dominating offense, who gave up only 14 points a game last season and should be even better this year. So here's to another MWC championship this year and hopefully some more national respect for BYU's football program. Good luck Bronco and boys.

Posted by Drew Dowling at 04:29 PM on July 11, 2007
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After a great season and very high hopes for the post season, the men's basketball team played like...well let's just say the picture to the right explains it all. The Cougars had a 9 point lead at one point in the second half and ended up losing by 2, 79-77, to Xavier (pronounced Zavier no eX-avier). I could go off on this one about unfair "home court advantage", but I wont because BYU still should have won. Actually I will...it is ridiculous that the 9 seed gets better home court advantage than the 1 seed. There has got to be something against BYU and I am sure that will continue until we actually prove that we deserve some respect.
The women on the other hand...well, again look at the picture on the right. The ladies lost by 26, 80-56. They would have won, but they left 2 key components to their game in Provo: their 3 point shooting and their defense. Hopefully they will remember those next time.
Ok...enough Cougar bashing. Both teams did have great seasons and we had a lot of great individual performances. Both coaches won coach of the year, Keena Young won MWC player of year, Dani Wright won MWC co-player of the year, Mallary Gillespie won MWC player of the week 3 times, and other individual awards. Both teams won the regular season conference title and both made it to the MWC tournament finals as well. Both teams also are looking pretty good for next year with some key players coming back and some good recruits coming in.
Good luck to all the seniors who will be moving on to different en devours next year. You will be missed.

Posted by Drew Dowling at 12:33 PM on March 20, 2007
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Although the men's basketball team did not win the Mountain West Conference Tournament (don't get me started on this because it was rediculous that UNLV played the tournament on their home court) they were still invited to the big dance as an eight seed. They will be playing this Thursday against Xavier at 9:30 eastern time on CBS. The eight seed is BYU's highest since 1995 and if they win, they will most likely go up against arguably the best team in the country. If you don't get the game on your TV you can always go to cbssportsline.com and sign up to watch every game of the tournament for free online. Go Cougars!

Posted by Drew Dowling at 04:33 PM on March 12, 2007
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After trashing Utah by 23 on Saturday in front of a sellout crowd, the Cougars won the Mountain West Conference and will be the #1 seed in the MWC tournament. Yesterday TCU beat New Mexico and will play BYU on Thursday at 12:30p MST. There were also some big awards handed out yesterday. Keena Young was awarded player of the year in the MWC and Dave Rose won coach of the year for the second year in a row. You can watch the MWC tournament on CSTV.
Jeff Judkins, the women's coach, also won Coach of the Year in the MWC for the second year in a row and Dani Wright is the co-player of the year in the MWC. The women will play their first game of the MWC tournament against Air Force on Wednesday at 6:00p on the Mountain.

Posted by Drew Dowling at 12:10 PM on March 07, 2007
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On Wednesday the women's basketball team beat Utah at home. The men's team hopes to make it a sweeps week when they take on Utah at home on Saturday. The game begins at 5:30pm and will be televised on yours truly, CSTV. Don't forget to wear white to support our Cougars as they look to win the Mountain West Conference outright. A win could also put the Cougars back into the top 25 and in very good position to make the NCAA tournament.

Game Notes

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Posted by Drew Dowling at 07:27 PM on March 02, 2007
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After overcoming an 11 point deficit in the second half, the Cougars were able to pull out the victory on the road against Air Force last night. Not only did this win end the Falcon's 30 game home win streak, giving us the nations longest home win streak at 30 by ourselves, but it also wrapped up the regular season Mountain West Conference title for the first time since 2002-03. Right now we are gauranteed at least a share of the conference title and with a win against rival Utah on Saturday we won't have to share it with anyone else.
Students with All Sport passes don't forget to pick up your tickets for this Saturday's big game against the Utes tonight at the women's game. The women will host the Utes at 8pm in the Marriot Center and the tickets to the Men's game will be handed out after the women's game tonight. It will be first come first serve so the first ones to the women's game tonight will get the best seats at the men's game this weekend.

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Posted by Drew Dowling at 02:32 PM on February 28, 2007
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Posted by Drew Dowling at 02:56 AM on December 28, 2006
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Send a holiday e-card to your friends and family. The card is a funny mad-lib style holiday request for a Panasonic Plasma TV. Each time someone sends the card, he/she is entered to win a Panasonic 42’ Plasma TV. Not too shabby eh? The more you enter, the better your chances to win!

Starting Wednesday the 22nd of November go to www.cstv.com/iloveplasma/byu/ in order to send the e-card and be entered to win the 42" Panasonic Plasma TV.

Posted by Drew Dowling at 04:58 PM on November 15, 2006
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The Cougars are ready to get their season started in Southern California against the UCLA Bruins, who were the runners up in the NCAA tournament last year. The #5 ranked Bruins look to be the Cougars' toughest opponent of the year and if the Cougars come home with a win then they could find themselves ranked in the top 25 very shortly. Don't forget to watch the game on Wednesday night and come to their first home game on Saturday night at 7:30p.

Posted by Drew Dowling at 03:18 PM on November 13, 2006
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With their offense back in full force, the Cougars posted an impressive 49-24 win over the Tulsa Golden Hurricane on Saturday.
The rain tried to put a damper on the afternoon by delaying the game for 40 minutes, but the Cougar faithful stuck around during the delay and were able to see the Cougars pull off their first win of the season.
The run game really gave us something to cheer about as we saw a couple powerful runs by Curtis Brown and Fui Vakapuna. Curtis Brown not only had a couple of impressive runs, but he also gained a total of 207 yards from scrimmage.
The Cougars have possibly their biggest challenge of the season next week when they play in Chestnut Hill, MA against the Boston College Eagles. The Eagles just came off a big win against 18th ranked Clemson in double overtime. The game against the Eagles will be shown on ESPN2 at 12pm this upcoming Saturday.

Posted by Drew Dowling at 03:11 PM on September 11, 2006
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