FROM PĀLOLO TO THE COLISEUM: JAYDEN MAIAVA CARRYING HIS PEOPLE AND USC’S PLAYOFF HOPES
LOS ANGELES — Long before the bright lights of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, before the Big Ten, before the national quarterback rankings and before Jayden Maiava became the first Polynesian starting quarterback in USC football history, there was Pālolo.Pālolo Valley. Oʻahu. Hawaiʻi. That is where this story begins.Maiava grew up in a large Samoan […]
BYU Football Restructuring: Inside Kalani Sitake’s Bold Move to Bypass AD Brian Santiago
PROVO, Utah — The BYU Cougars open their season against Utah Tech in just nine days. Yet, the university has just delivered a tectonic shift. It has sent shockwaves through college athletics. Head coach Kalani Sitake will no longer report to athletic director Brian Santiago. Sitake is moving under the direct supervision of Keith Vorkink. Vorkink […]