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The color red is something that true blue Cougars avoid like the plague. After all, it is the school color of the arch-rival to the north.
The BYU football team even goes so far as to refer to the red zone, the term often used to describe the area between an opponents’ 20-yard line and the goal line, as the “blue zone”.
It also dresses its quarterbacks in green practice jerseys rather than have them don red, the color normally used to by teams to identify players that are off limits to …

Texas A&M University has taken a major step towards departing the Big XII Conference.
On Thursday, Texas A&M president R. Bowen Loftin sent a letter to Big XII commissioner Dan Beebe notifying the conference that the school is looking at its conference affiliation options, and asking for clarification on the process of exiting the league.
It has been speculated over the past few weeks that the Aggies are committed to becoming a member of the Southeastern Conference.
If the move materializes, as many strongly believe it will, the Big XII will be reduced …

The BYU basketball team finished up its trip to Greece on Wednesday, with a 102-63 loss to the Italian National Team  in the Acropolis of Athens Tournament.
It was the second lopsided loss in two days for BYU against two of the world’s top 15 national teams. The Cougars were knocked off 83-54 by Greece on Tuesday, a team that is ranked 7th in the world by FIBA.
A late addition to the tournament, BYU was a replacement for the Macedonian National Team and was given the opportunity to face some of …

BYU announced Tuesday that it will play a home-and-home schedule with the University of Houston.
The Cougars in blue will visit the Cougars in red on October 19, 2013, with Houston making a return trip to Provo the following season on September 27, 2014.
The two programs, which produced back-to-back, Heisman-winning quarterbacks in 1989 and 1990, in Andre Ware and Ty Detmer, have never faced one another on the gridiron.
A quick check of the schedule for 2013 reveals a considerable uptick in the quality of programs set to visit Provo that season, …

BYU rolled Tuesday night in the first athletic contest between the Cougars and Utes since the two schools departed the Mountain West Conference.
The No. 24 womens’s soccer team, a new member of the West Coast Conference, crushed their PAC-12 rivals 4-0 in front of a standing room only crowd of 4,437 at BYU’s South Field.
Following a scoreless first half, the Cougars caught fire, scoring four goals in the second half at the 57th, 64th, 77th and 82nd minute marks.
Four different Cougars got into the scoring column with junior star Jessica …

If you had to pick the brightest star of BYU’s fall camp this year, the entire defensive unit would be a very good choice.
The Cougar defense has more than held its own when matched up against the offense, a surprise to many considering that BYU needed to replace most of its defensive backfield.
There were also plenty of questions along the defensive line with the departure of starting defensive end Vic So’oto, a possible academic casualty in projected starting DE Matt Putnam, and the uncertainty of the injury situations with Romney …

BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall announced Saturday that the Cougars will start preparations for their season-opening game at Ole Miss beginning Monday.
Mendenhall says that this team is further ahead than any group he has had since becoming the head coach at BYU seven seasons ago, allowing coaches to begin mixing in prep for the Rebels a few days ahead of schedule.
In recent years, Mendenhall-coached teams have proven difficult to defeat when given extra time to prepare.
The Cougars have won their last four season-opening games including victories over Arizona, Oklahoma and …

The BYU basketball team ran its record to 2-0 on its tour of Greece, by destroying ASE Doukas of the Greek B League 114-45 on Friday.
BYU was led by reserve swingman Brock Zylstra’s 27 points. Brock also pulled down seven boards and four assists.
Stephen Rogers pumped in 22 points, and Noah Hartsock contributed 21. Hartsock and Charles Abouo led the Cougars with eight rebounds each, with Abouo also scoring 15 points. Craig Cusick led BYU with eight assists.
As a team, BYU shot .577 from the field and .407 from three. …

The No. 17 BYU women’s soccer team opens the 2011 season Friday night in Seattle as the Cougars face the 19th-ranked Washington Huskies.
Head coach Jennifer Rockwood returns nine starters from last year’s squad that captured the Mountain West Conference regular season and conference tournament championships and competed in the NCAA tournament for the sixth consecutive time.
DSB contributor, Walt Hanssen, sat down with Rockwood just prior to the kickoff to the season to get some of her thoughts about the state of the program and becoming a member of the very …