Each week, Daily Herald sports writers Darnell Dickson and Brandon C. Gurney rank the top five teams in the Utah Valley in football, girls soccer and girls volleyball (records as of Oct. 13): FOOTBALL 1. Skyridge (6-2) Falcons finish regular season at American Fork on Wednesday. 2. Orem ...

The best teams often prove adept in overcoming a good amount of adversity, which is exactly what BYU managed to do in its thrilling 33-27 double overtime win over Arizona on Saturday. Injuries and ejections to key players, a long lightning delay, some untimely penalties incurred, a freshman ...

Here’s what’s going on inside Darnell’s head as I try to focus on BYU’s double overtime victory at Arizona and NOT the 98th version of the best rivalry in college football coming up on Saturday. When the legendary LaVell Edwards was hired by BYU in 1962, it was in large part because ...

BYU football beat reporter Brandon Gurney gives his grades for the Cougar's position group and coaches for Saturday's 33-27 double overtime win over Arizona at Arizona Stadium Quarterback: B- Bear Bachmeier went just 12-29 through the air for 172 yards, threw two interceptions and coughed up ...

Everything was going wrong, so BYU naturally just handed the ball to their freshman quarterback and basically said, "Win it for us." Bear Bachmeier rushed for two touchdowns — one to tie the game with 19 seconds left in regulation and the other to give the Cougars the lead in the second ...

Isaac Emojong scored in the sixth minute and Nil Grau converted a 77th-minute spot kick to give Utah Valley (7-1-1, 1-1 WAC) a 2-1 win over the Air Force Falcons (1-8-2, 0-2 WAC) on Thursday night at UCCU Stadium. The two teams waited nearly two and a half hours through a lightning delay that ...