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Minneapolis Protests: Police Shooting Of Black Man Daunte Wright Sparks Demonstrations, Curfew 04/12/21 AT 2:20 PM A Minneapolis police station was swarmed Sunday by protestors after yet another fatal traffic stop. Hours after police fatally shot 20-year-old Black man Daunte Wright in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, hundreds of protestors gathered, leading police to fire tear gas and the city to implement an overnight curfew.  In the wake of the unrest, businesses at a local ma...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Monday gave a press briefing about the shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota this weekend, comparing the situation to several other recent instances where Black men have been killed by police.

Craig Bohl and the Wyoming football team are starting spring football a tad late this season. Last year, COVID-19 put a halt to it all together. So, better late than never, right? Theres a method to Bohls madness. 1) He wants more time to pass so the virus will hopefully be well under control. 2) He wants to see quarterback  Sean Chambers at full strength. Get our free mobile app Theres arguably never been a more important training camp than this one in Bohls eight seasons in Laramie. He is ...

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Wide Receivers Share this story Troy Babbitt-USA TODAY Sports Spring football has already started for some Mountain West teams (Air Force) and the rest will start hitting the field in the next month. We are going to spend the next few months previewing each position group and where each team stands. So far we have looked at The Good: Boise State The Broncos return all of their production at wide receiver, and new offensive coordinator Tim Plough should do a better ...

Peak Perspective: Reviewing the MWC Top 30 Coaches Under 30 Looking at how the 6 Mountain West coaches fared in 2020. Share this story Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images Last September, 247 Sports unveiled their annual list of the top 30 college football coaches who were under 30 years old. The Mountain West Conference had six of their assistant coaches make the list, which bodes well for the conference’s collective ability to identify young coaching talent. Equally noteworthy, those six coach...

Arkansas hires new wide receivers coach Share Updated: 6:56 PM CST Jan 5, 2021 Share Updated: 6:56 PM CST Jan 5, 2021 Head Coach Sam Pittman has added Kenny Guiton to the Arkansas staff as the Razorbacks’ new wide receivers coach. Guiton heads to Fayetteville after spending the 2020 season on staff at Colorado State. The Rams played four games this past fall with one of Guiton’s receivers – Dante Wright – finishing second in the Mountain West with 105 yards per ga...