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PROVO When BYU s football team was forced to go it alone through the 2020 college football season as the only active team west of Texas, the Cougars marched on.
Cobbling together a schedule of any team it could find during the COVID-19 pandemic and with the Pac-12, Big Ten and Mountain West initially opting out of the season BYU put together its best season in over a decade with an 11-1 record and top-15 finish in every major national poll, capped by a win over UCF in the Boca Raton Bowl.
The Cougars had a banner year on the field in 2020, and it led to a banner draft, with the most selections in the top-seven rounds since 2002.
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PROVO Zach Wilson and Penei Sewell are about to rock in Cleveland.
The former Corner Canyon quarterback will be one of 13 players on-site Thursday for day one of the 2021 NFL Draft, while the one-time Desert Hills pass protector and run blocker will be among the 45 players scheduled to drop in virtually a list that includes presumed No. 1 pick Trevor Lawrence and likely top-10 pick Justin Fields.
Each day leading up to the draft, KSL.com will take a look at the Utah products projected in the latest mock drafts.
Let s start with Thursday s first round (6 p.m MT, ABC/ESPN/NFL Network), where Wilson and Sewell could be the highest-drafted duo in Utah high school football history.
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She chose one of Oregon’s most grueling challenges.
In the early morning darkness of Aug. 1, the 35-year-old Eugene resident laced up her shoes at the Oregon-California border and stepped onto the Pacific Crest Trail.
Then she started running.
Over the next week, Halnon ran up mountains and down river valleys, through a frigid thunderstorm and boiling temperatures, felt her shins ache and feet swell up on 17-hour days in remote wilderness.
When she reached the Washington border on Aug. 9, Halnon had set a new speed record for the Oregon section of the PCT: 455 miles in 7 days, 19 hours and 23 minutes.