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2022 Bowl Games schedule, college football scores, live updates: Oregon State routs Florida, BYU outlasts SMU

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College football bowl games are upon us as the 2022 postseason begins with a flurry of matchups that will mark a celebration of a compelling year in the sport. The action kicked off on Friday, Dec. 16 and will run all the way through the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday, Jan. 9 as we crown a national title winner for the 2022 season.

The Bowl Season action really ramped up on Saturday with a six-game slate after the postseason began with a two-game schedule on Friday. Saturday’s action had a little bit of everything, from Oregon State securing the third 10-win season in program history in dominant fashion over an SEC opponent to a record-breaking performance from the son of an NFL legend who continues to make his own mark on the game. There was also the Celebration Bowl in which Jackson State’s bid for a perfect season was spoiled in Deion Sanders’ final game before he heads off to take over the Colorado program. 

Sunday is an off-day for the bowls with the NFL taking center stage, but the postseason returns on Monday with Marshall taking on UConn in the Potato Bowl. 

CBS Sports will be here each day with the latest scores, analysis highlights and highlights from the entirety of Bowl Season. Check out the schedule below and keep scrolling for updates from each game as they conclude. All times Eastern

Bowl games: College football scores, schedule

Saturday, Dec. 17

Fenway Bowl: Louisville 24, Cincinnati 7 — Recap
Celebration Bowl: NC Central 41, Jackson State 34 (OT)
Las Vegas Bowl: No. 14 Oregon State 30, Florida 3 — Recap
LA Bowl: Fresno State 29, Washington State 6 — Recap
LendingTree Bowl: Southern Miss 38, Rice 24 — Recap
New Mexico Bowl: BYU 24, SMU 23 — Recap
Frisco Bowl: Boise State 35, North Texas 32 — Recap

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2022 Bowl Games schedule, college football scores, live updates today: BYU vs. SMU in New Mexico Bowl

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College football bowl games are upon us as the 2022 postseason begins with a flurry of matchups that will mark a celebration of a compelling year in the sport. The action kicked off on Friday, Dec. 16 and will run all the way through the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday, Jan. 9 as we crown a national title winner for the 2022 season.

The Bowl Season action got started on Friday with two postseason games that did not fail to deliver the excitement as UAB outlasted Miami (OH) in the Bahamas Bowl to begin the festivities while Troy stifled UTSA in a Cure Bowl that featured a showdown between two conference champions. That was merely a two-game slate, however. Saturday’s schedule is much more stacked with six bowl games on tap for college football fans. 

It all begins early on Saturday with the Fenway Bowl as Louisville takes on Cincinnati. Then, an intriguing showdown between Florida and No. 14 Oregon State headlines the Las Vegas Bowl while Washington State and Fresno State battle in the LA Bowl. To cap off the evening, BYU clashes with SMU in the New Mexico Bowl and Boise State battles North Texas in the Frisco Bowl with a Southern Miss vs. Rice matchup in the LendingTree Bowl sandwiched in between. 

In addition to the FBS bowl games, Deion Sanders will be coaching his last game at Jackson State before heading off to Colorado as the Tigers take on NC Central in the Celebration Bowl. 

CBS Sports will be here each day with the latest scores, analysis highlights and highlights from the entirety of Bowl Season. Check out the schedule below and keep scrolling for updates from each game as they conclude. All times Eastern

Bowl games: College football scores, schedule

Saturday, Dec. 17

Fenway Bowl: Louisville 24, Cincinnati 7 — Recap
Celebration Bowl: NC Central 41, Jackson State 34 (OT)
Las Vegas Bowl: No. 14 Oregon State 30, Florida 3 — Recap
LA Bowl: Fresno State 29, Washington State 6 — Recap
LendingTree Bowl: Southern Miss 38, Rice 24 — Recap
New Mexico Bowl: BYU vs. SMU — ABC — GameTracker
Frisco Bowl: Boise State vs. North Texas — 9:15 p.m. (ESPN) — Expert picks, preview

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University of Oregon apologizes for anti-Mormon chant at BYU football game

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University of Oregon students erupted in a chant trashing their opponents just moments after the Brigham Young University Cougars scored their first touchdown during Saturday’s football game.

They didn’t mention the Cougars or the university, specifically. Instead, the students homed in on something intrinsically tied to BYU — religion — in an obscene, anti-Mormon chant in the sold-out crowd of 54,000 packed into Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore.

The chorus marred a 41-20 victory for the Ducks, who were No. 25-ranked entering the game against the No. 12 Cougars. Hours after the game, Utah’s governor denounced the chant as “religious bigotry.” On Sunday afternoon, University of Oregon officials apologized, calling the chant “offensive and disgraceful.” Students said they were “ashamed” of their classmates.

BYU, located in Provo, Utah, was founded in 1875 by Brigham Young, who served from 1847 to 1877 as the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Nearly all of the more than 30,000 students at BYU are Mormon.

A BYU alum sat next to the student section and captured the chant in a seven-second video that has since been viewed more than 988,000 times on Twitter. Aubrey, the alum identified only by her first name, told KSTU that she attended the Cougars-Ducks game with a close friend from college as part of their tradition of visiting an opposing team’s stadium for a BYU away game.

Aubrey said the student section had shouted the chant twice before she recorded her video with 14:53 left in the second quarter. BYU scored a touchdown and was preparing to kick an extra point that made the score 10-7. She told KSTU that she heard the chant two more times but didn’t confront the students “because I felt that would make the situation worse.” Instead, she told the station, she alerted a stadium staffer.

“It was really disappointing,” she told the TV station, adding that “there’s an unfortunate acceptance in a lot of areas that you don’t make fun of a lot of religions, but Mormons are free game to make fun of. And I would like that to stop.”

Aubrey’s video caught the attention of Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R), who just hours after the game said that “religious bigotry [is] alive and celebrated in Oregon.”

That’s not true, or at least it shouldn’t be, his counterpart in Oregon, Gov. Kate Brown (D), said.

“In Oregon, we strive to be a welcoming, inclusive state to all, regardless of race, religion, gender, or background,” Brown said in a statement. “Our state and nation have an ugly history of discrimination and bigotry. The chant at yesterday’s Oregon-BYU game was unacceptable.

Officials at the University of Oregon agree. On Sunday afternoon, they apologized for “an offensive and disgraceful chant coming from the student section during yesterday’s game.”

“These types of actions go against everything the university stands for, and it goes against the spirit of competition,” university officials said in the statement. “We can and will do better as a campus community that has no place for hate, bias or bigotry.”

Kris Winter, the university’s interim vice president for the division of student life, told the Associated Press that officials would investigate what happened.

The Oregon Pit Crew, the official Twitter account of the Ducks student section, also said it was sorry, adding that it does “not condone or support any hateful speech directed towards one’s religion.”

An almost identical incident happened last college football season on Nov. 27, when the Cougars beat the University of Southern California Trojans, 35-31, in Los Angeles. Several BYU fans at the game told the Deseret News that on at least five occasions, USC students yelled the same obscene, anti-Mormon chant that Ducks fans would engage in less than a year later.

USC officials apologized a day later, denouncing the chant as “distasteful” and saying that it did “not align with our Trojan values.”

BYU says probe found no evidence of racial slurs at Duke volleyball player

Last month, BYU found itself under fire when a Duke women’s volleyball player accused a Cougars fan of repeatedly yelling a racial slur at outside hitter Rachel Richardson “every time she served” during an Aug. 26 match in Provo. Richardson was later “threatened by a white male that told her to watch her back going to the team bus,” her godmother, Fort Worth attorney Lesa Pamplin, tweeted after the match.

While BYU initially apologized to the Blue Devils and banned the student accused of yelling racial slurs at Richardson, it announced Sept. 9 that an investigation into the incident didn’t find “any evidence to corroborate the allegation that fans engaged in racial heckling or uttered racial slurs at the event.”



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College football scores, rankings, highlights: BYU, Michigan, USC among biggest winners in Week 3

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No. 9 Baylor and No. 21 BYU capped off a wild Week 2 of college football action on Saturday night with a dramatic game of their own as the Cougars squeaked past the Bears 26-20 in two overtimes. Katoa Lopini scored on a 3-yard rush to put BYU ahead in the second overtime before the Cougars got a game-clinching stand from their defense to cap the fourth-ever meeting between the future Big 12 foes.

BYU had two earlier chances to clinch the game — one at the end of regulation and another in the first overtime — but missed field goals extended the game on both occasions. It was ultimately fitting that the Cougars defense got it done in the end as they held Baylor to just 289 total yards for the game.

The late-night win for BYU made for an appropriate conclusion to a day of drama in the sport. The most-stunning upsets came from Sun Belt schools, with Appalachian State beating No. 6 Texas A&M 17-14, Marshall beating No. 8 Notre Dame 26-21 and Georgia Southern stunning Nebraska 45-42. Baylor became the third top-10 school to go down amid the chaos.

Things weren’t all bad for the big-name schools, however. No. 10 USC showed up in an impressive win over Stanford, and No. 4 Michigan cruised to a 56-10 win over Hawaii as quarterback J.J. McCarthy made his first career start, completing 11 of 12 passes for 229 yards and three touchdowns. (Afterward, coach Jim Harbaugh announced McCarthy will start in Week 3 vs. UConn.) In fact, each team in the top five of the AP poll escaped from Saturday unscathed, though No. 1 Alabama certainly had a close call before winning 20-19 against Texas.

College football scores, schedule: Week 2

No. 1 Alabama 20, Texas 19 — Takeaways, recap
No. 3 Ohio State 45, Arkansas State 12 — Recap
No. 16 Arkansas 44, South Carolina 30 — Recap
Marshall 26, No. 8 Notre Dame 15 — Recap
Air Force 41, Colorado 10 — Recap
No. 5 Clemson 35, Furman 12 — Recap
Appalachian State 17, No. 6 Texas A&M 14 — Recap
No. 24 Tennessee 34, No. 17 Pittsburgh 27 –Takeaways, recap
No. 2 Georgia 33, Samford 0 — Recap
Iowa State 10, Iowa 7 — Recap
No. 7 Oklahoma 33, Kent State 3 — Recap
No. 20 Kentucky 26, No. 12 Florida 16 — Takeaways, recap
No. 10 USC 41, Stanford 28 — Recap
No. 4 Michigan 56, Hawaii 10  — Recap
No. 21 BYU 26, No. 9 Baylor 20 — Recap
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College football scores, schedule, NCAA top 25 rankings, games today: No. 9 Baylor takes on No. 21 BYU

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Week 2 of the college football season is here, and we should be in for another glorious Saturday full of quality action from across the nation. Every AP Top 25-ranked team will be in action over the course of the day, beginning at noon ET and stretching until No. 21 BYU hosts No. 9 Baylor in the late-night window.

The slate begins with a bang as Texas hosts No. 1 Alabama in a nonconference battle between future SEC foes. Also highlighting the day’s first wave of games is No. 16 Arkansas hosting South Carolina in a critical conference game for both SEC squads. No. 17 Pittsburgh and No. 24 Tennessee highlight the afternoon slate, while No. 19 Wisconsin clashes with Washington State in the same 3:30 p.m. ET window.

One team that should be on upset alert in the afternoon window is No. 6 Texas A&M, which hosts Appalachian State a week after the Mountaineers came up just short in a crushing 63-61 loss to North Carolina. Finally, in primetime, an SEC showdown between No. 12 Florida and No. 20 Kentucky stands out, as does a road test for No. 10 USC at Stanford.

CBS Sports will be here every step of the way to update you with the latest scores, highlights and storylines throughout the evening. All times Eastern

College football scores, schedule: Week 2

No. 1 Alabama 20, Texas 19 — Takeaways, recap
No. 3 Ohio State 45, Arkansas State 12 — Recap
No. 16 Arkansas 44, South Carolina 30 — Recap
Marshall 26, No. 8 Notre Dame 15 — Recap
Air Force 41, Colorado 10 — Recap
No. 5 Clemson 35, Furman 12 — Recap
Appalachian State 17, No. 6 Texas A&M 14 — Recap
No. 24 Tennessee 34, No. 17 Pittsburgh 27 –Takeaways, recap
No. 2 Georgia 33, Samford 0 — Recap
Iowa State 10, Iowa 7 — Recap
No. 7 Oklahoma 33, Kent State 3 — Recap
No. 20 Kentucky 26, No. 12 Florida 16 — Takeaways, recap
No. 10 USC 41, Stanford 28 — Recap
No. 4 Michigan 56, Hawaii 10  — Recap
No. 9 Baylor at No. 21 BYU — ESPN — GameTracker
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BYU says investigation did not find evidence of racist heckling at volleyball game

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On Friday, however, BYU Athletics said its investigation did not find any evidence of racial heckling.

“As a result of our investigation, we have lifted the ban on the fan who was identified as having uttered racial slurs during the match,” the university said in a statement. “We have not found any evidence that that individual engaged in such an activity. BYU sincerely apologizes to that fan for any hardship the ban has caused.”

Rachel Richardson, a sophomore on Duke’s volleyball team, tweeted a statement on August 28 alleging she and other Black players were subjected to racist harassment during a match days earlier. Richardson claimed BYU officials failed to act even after being made aware of the incident.

Duke University Vice President and Director of Athletics Nina King released a statement Friday following BYU’s statement.

“The 18 members of the Duke University volleyball team are exceptionally strong women who represent themselves, their families, and Duke University with the utmost integrity,” King said. “We unequivocally stand with and champion them, especially when their character is called into question.”

CNN has reached to Richardson’s father, who has said his daughter was “afraid” and phoned him in tears after the match.

Watching the match on television at the Richardson family home, Marvin Richardson said he had “no clue” what had taken place during the contest​, but his daughter explained her experience to him in detail afterward.

“After the game, we [Rachel and I] always talk and she called, but this was a different call,” Marvin told CNN’s “New Day.”

“She was crying, she was upset and Rachel’s not the person who calls and cries over a loss, it’s just not who she is. So we knew something was wrong and then as she started to tell us what was going on and what had happened during the game, first [we felt] anger, outrage and then just a real need to make sure something was done to correct the things that came across us.”

BYU said it reviewed audio and video recordings, along with university broadcast footage, and interviewed more than 50 people at the match as well as Duke and BYU athletic personnel and student-athletes.

“As we stated earlier, we would not tolerate any conduct that would make a student-athlete feel unsafe. That is the reason for our immediate response and our thorough investigation,” the statement said.

“Despite being unable to find supporting evidence of racial slurs in the many recordings and interviews, we hope that all those involved will understand our sincere efforts to ensure that all student-athletes competing at BYU feel safe,” BYU said.

South Carolina basketball coach still OK with canceling games

In the wake of the initial controversy, South Carolina women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley said her team was canceling games against BYU scheduled for this season and next.

Staley said Friday she hasn’t changed her mind.

“I continue to stand by my position. After my personal research, I made a decision for the well-being of my team. I regret that my university, my athletics director Ray Tanner and others got drawn into the criticism of a choice that I made,” Staley said in a statement released by the university’s athletics department.

South Carolina is the defending national champion for NCAA’s Division I.

A group of Republican lawmakers in South Carolina says the university “acted without consideration or regard for the truth” in backing out of the games.

Vice Chairman of the South Carolina Freedom Caucus, Republican Rep. RJ May told CNN in a phone call Staley has no grounds for her decision.

“Instead of apologizing, she’s doubling down on her decision,” May said. “BYU deserves an apology.”

The statement comes two days after the group of legislators sent a letter to Tanner and Staley, saying the university “rushed to appease the loudest voices of the far-left by ‘canceling’ BYU, literally and figuratively.” The caucus members also requested records related to school officials reactions to the alleged incident and discussions about scheduled games against BYU.

CNN’s Steve Almasy, Kevin Dotson and Amy Simonson contributed to this report.

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BYU receivers Puka Nacua, Gunner Romney to miss Saturday’s game vs. Baylor due to injuries, sources say

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BYU will be without the team’s two best wide receivers when the No. 21 Cougars host No. 9 Baylor on Saturday night, sources told ESPN.

Junior Puka Nacua and senior Gunner Romney are expected to miss the game. BYU coach Kalani Sitake had said earlier in the week that they would be game-time decisions. Romney and Nacua accounted for 60% of BYU’s returning receiving yards, according to ESPN Stats & Info data.

Nacua, who is considered a dynamic NFL prospect, sprained his right ankle and wore a boot during BYU’s blowout win at South Florida last week. Romney, who is also on NFL radars, missed that game with an undisclosed injury, which will also keep from playing Saturday.

The two were BYU’s leading returning receivers from last season and projected as star quarterback Jaren Hall’s top targets in 2022. Before Nacua got injured against USF, he scored two touchdowns, including a 75-yard run on the game’s first play. Last season, Nacua finished with 805 receiving yards and tied for second on the team with six touchdowns.

Romney is in his fifth season at BYU, and he has accumulated 1,900 career receiving yards and 10 total touchdowns. In former BYU quarterback Zach Wilson’s breakout season in 2020, Romney had 767 yards and six touchdowns. For his career, he has averaged 16.2 yards per catch.

Their absence will leave BYU leaning on its run game, as the Cougars’ offensive line is the strength of the team. That unit struggled mightily against the Bears in a 38-24 loss in Waco last year, however, gaining just 67 yards on 24 carries. BYU tailback Christopher Brooks, who transferred from Cal, had a breakout first game against USF with 135 yards and a touchdown on 13 carries.

The Cougars will look to freshman Chase Roberts, redshirt freshman Kody Epps and sophomore Keanu Hill to fill the void at receiver. The absence of Romney and Nacua could also potentially highlight BYU’s stout tight end tandem of junior Isaac Rex and junior Dallin Holker, both of whom are considered strong NFL prospects.

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University of South Carolina cancels games with BYU amid alleged racist slur incident with Duke

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The recent alleged Duke-BYU women’s volleyball incident is now affecting basketball season, which doesn’t start for practically another three months.

The South Carolina University women’s basketball team canceled two games – one this year and one next – against BYU in response to the alleged incident.

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Head coach Dawn Staley of the South Carolina Gamecocks receives the WBCA coaches trophy after defeating the UConn Huskies during the championship game of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament at Target Center on April 3, 2022 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Duke’s Rachel Robinson claimed that a fan subjected her and her Black teammates to racial slurs “throughout the entirety of the match” against BYU.

However, the claim has received pushback from witnesses who say they “heard absolutely nothing.” 

Despite the conflicting reports, Gamecocks head coach Dawn Staley is comfortable with her decision.

“As a head coach, my job is to do what’s best for my players and staff,” Staley said in a statement released by South Carolina on Friday. “The incident at BYU has led me to reevaluate our home-and-home, and I don’t feel that this is the right time for us to engage in this series.”

General view of LaVell Edwards Stadium prior to the game between the Utah Utes and the Brigham Young Cougars on September 9, 2017 in Provo, Utah.
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DUKE WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL PLAYER’S RACIAL-SLUR CLAIM COMES UNDER SCRUTINY

A BYU spokesperson told Fox News Digital they confirmed that Duke, in the third game, first brought up that a slur had been heard, but no one was identified. 

The person also said four staff members and one uniformed officer spoke to the student section (the fan in question was a Utah Valley student), and no complaints were made by Duke for the rest of the match.

BYU has apologized for the incident and banned the fan in question, but the school said the person was kicked out of the game for “interfering with guests,” rather than shouting slurs at the players. 

BYU officials and BYU police both have not confirmed slurs were used, nor were they able to tell if the person was shouting in Richardson’s direction while she was serving as she claimed.

General view of LaVell Edwards Stadium prior to the game between the Utah Utes and the Brigham Young Cougars on September 9, 2017 in Provo, Utah. 
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“Various BYU Athletics employees have been reviewing video from BYUtv and other cameras in the facility that the volleyball team has access to for film review. This has been ongoing since right after the match on Friday night,” BYU associate athletic director Jon McBride said in a statement. “The person who was banned was the person identified by Duke as using racial slurs. However, we have been unable to find any evidence of that person using slurs in the match.”

A BYU athletics official also told the BYU student-led newspaper the fan was mentally challenged. 

“When a mentally challenged fan approached a Duke player, the Duke team then suddenly recognized the handicapped man’s ‘voice’ as the same one shouting slurs,” the official said. “They never saw or pointed out a face, just a voice. They banned this man. Not for slurs, but for interfering with visiting guests. BYU Athletics staff went through footage of the entire game and the man Duke identified was never seated in the student section. Her story doesn’t add up, BYU banned an innocent man to appease the mob and make their PR mess go away. While I don’t know if Ms. Richardson genuinely misheard something or intentionally made up this story, it certainly does not constitute the criticism BYU has gotten. There is zero evidence of a slur being said. Not a single witness, besides Ms. Richardson, has come forth. Not a single cell phone video or BYUtv’s several camera angles caught a single thing. How unlikely when this person supposedly said a slur during ‘every single serve.'”

NCAA Logos are featured during the Division I Women’s Volleyball Semifinals held at PPG Paints Arena on December 19, 2019 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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According to a police report, however, someone left a threatening voicemail for a BYU coach on Sunday, and “got in the face” of a Duke player after the game Friday and made the player feel “uncomfortable.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Duke volleyball player says BYU officials failed to stop racist heckling during game in newly released statement

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“Friday night in our match against Brigham Young University my fellow African American teammates and I were targeted and racially heckled throughout the entirety of the match,” Richardson tweeted. “The slurs and comments grew into threats which caused us to feel unsafe.”

Richardson’s godmother, Lesa Pamplin, initially tweeted about the incident Saturday, accusing the school of allowing the behavior without intervening.

“My Goddaughter is the only black starter for Dukes volleyball team. While playing yesterday, she was called a n***er every time she served,” Pamplin’s tweet read.

The incident led to an apology from BYU, the school banning a fan and Duke changing the locations of the team’s next game. It also caught the attention of NBA superstar LeBron James, who tweeted: “We are a brotherhood and sisterhood! We have her back. This is not sports.”

Richardson said both BYU officials and coaching staff were made aware of the incident during the game, “but failed to take the necessary steps to stop the unacceptable behavior and create a safe environment.” Even after the incident was brought to their attention, Richardson said BYU officials “failed to adequately address the situation.”

The harassment resulted in Richardson and her teammates struggling to get through the game, as opposed to just being able to focus on their play, she tweeted.

“No athlete, regardless of their race should ever be subject to such hostile conditions,” Richardson’s tweet read.

Richardson also addressed comments that she or her teammates should have refused to continue playing.

“Although the heckling eventually took a mental toll on me, I refused to allow it to stop me from doing what I love to do and what I came to BYU to do; which was to play volleyball,” her tweet read. “I refused to allow those racist bigots to feel any degree of satisfaction from thinking that their comments had ‘gotten to me’. So, I pushed through and finished the game.”

Despite the incident, Richardson said she does not believe this was a reflection of BYU athletes. She complimented their players on a great game and showing “nothing but respect and good sportsmanship on and off the court.”

BYU Athletics did not confirm the specifics of the incident but announced they had banned a fan from all athletic venues and tweeted an apology.

“When a student-athlete or a fan comes to a BYU sporting event, we expect that they will be treated with love and respect and feel safe on our campus. It is for this reason BYU has banned a fan who was identified by Duke during last night’s volleyball match from all BYU athletic venues,” according to the statement.

“We wholeheartedly apologize to Duke University and especially its student-athletes competing last night for what they experienced,” the statement read.

The statement said the person in question was not a BYU student, despite sitting in the student section.

The incident led Duke University to announce they were moving the location of their Saturday game and their priority was the safety of student-athletes.

“They should always have the opportunity to compete in an inclusive, anti-racist environment which promotes equality and fair play,” Duke’s statement read.

CNN’s Matt Foster contributed to this report.



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BYU football: Here’s why some potential starters aren’t on fall camp roster

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Before the media viewing portion of the first practice of preseason training camp on Thursday, BYU distributed copies of its “2022 BYU Football Fall Camp Roster” to reporters.

There were a whopping 109 names on the roster, with a lot of multiple numbers, like usual. For instance, Cal transfer running back Chris Brooks and 2021 leading tackler Ben Bywater will both wear No. 2 this year.

That number will grow once school starts, as schools are allowed to have 123 players on their final rosters, per NCAA rules.

“If guys aren’t practicing today, 90% of them are because they are not cleared yet, not 100% healthy. So in (Chaz Ah You’s) example, he is not ready to go. We are not going to force it. We still have a month to go, and some time.” — BYU football coach Kalani Sitake.

There were a few startling omissions from the roster for those who follow the program closely, but don’t panic just yet. Coach Kalani Sitake said some guys, such as former four-star recruit Chaz Ah You, either haven’t been medically cleared yet, or are still taking care of some academic work with summer term concluding on August 12.

Ah You, who is a game-changer when he’s healthy, apparently falls into that former category. He was seen at practice Thursday, but wasn’t participating.

Ah You “is in fall camp,” Sitake said. “If guys aren’t practicing today, 90% of them are because they are not cleared yet, not 100% healthy. So in (Ah You’s) example, he is not ready to go. We are not going to force it. We still have a month to go, and some time.”

Here is what Ah You posted on his Twitter account Thursday afternoon: “Patience: the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset. We all good on this side!”

Sitake said coaches “want to make sure we work with our specialists and get (Ah You) in the right position to be healthy first before he takes the field.”

Ah You played in BYU’s first eight games last year, and started in six, before leaving the Washington State game on October 23 with an undisclosed injury. He never played again in 2021.

Punt returner Hobbs Nyberg, defensive back Quenton Rice, offensive lineman Donovan Hanna, backup kicker Justen Smith, cornerback/returner Caleb Christensen, receiver Chris Jackson and defensive lineman Atunaisa Mahe were all on the roster BYU published in June (except Jackson, who returned from the transfer portal), but not on the fall camp roster distributed Thursday.

Rice, Hanna, Smith and Mahe were all at practice Thursday, but not participating, according to KSLsports.com.

As for Hobbs, who was listed as the No. 1 punt returner on the offseason depth chart, Sitake said the former baseball standout from St. George “will be joining us” but didn’t specify why he’s not currently practicing.

“I will just tell you: some guys are either (working through) injury, or handling academics right now,” Sitake said. “We are at the tail end of summer semester, and some guys are still finishing that up, too.”

Rice, the son of former BYU standout DB Rodney Rice, is returning from an injury, Sitake said.

Offensive lineman Lisala Tai, a transfer from Snow College who was one of the prizes of the Cougars’ 2022 recruiting class, is also not on the roster yet.

Sitake said Tai “has got his academics in order,” but some paperwork needs to be finished before he joins the team. 

In media viewing portion of Thursday’s practice, Jaren Hall got the first reps at quarterback, followed by Jacob Conover and then Cade Fennegan. No surprise there.

“Right now, I am looking for guys to compete for starting spots, and then once we get a depth chart (solidified), we will move on (with developing younger guys),” Sitake said.

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