Mid-Monday links - 10/22

That's a whole lot of Links!!!

This has been way too long since doing this, and that's my bad. There's plenty of love to be spread on any given Monday, so let's go ahead and spread it!!

• Kyle Goon gives a recap on Saturday's basketball scrimmage over at the Aggieville Blog, which I guess will soon be his alone once he stops splitting carries with the old guy...
• Speaking of the old guy, Tony Jones is still absolutely killing it with USU football coverage, painful as it may be to see him tweeting about Ute basketball. But let's be honest, we all know where his heart still is with basketball in the Beehive State. Tony still cranked out two separate stories in the past few days on USU cornerbacks Nevin Lawson and Will Davis. He also recapped Saturday's 41-7 win over New Mexico State.
• Brad Rock over at the Deseret News talks about two different groups of Aggies heading in very different directions.
• Kraig Williams gives his own recap of Saturday's blowout, also for the D-News.
• And don't forget about Tavin Stucki, giving his take on the win over NMSU.
• Utah State Hockey opened its home schedule this past weekend with a pair of wins over Arizona State. Sean O'Sullivan gives the rundown for The Utah Statesman on the hockey team's 8-0 start to the season.
• The AggieZone makes its debut with a detailed recap of all the homecoming week festivities.
• Chris Cooley is a Washington Redskin once again!
• Nick Diaz was named the WAC's Special Teams Player of the Week after nailing a pair of long field goals on Saturday.
• Oscar Molina-Sanchez might be out with injury, but that didn't keep Megan Allen from telling his story for USU Athletics Media Relations.

Hopefully didn't forget anyone, but if I did, let me know via comment, e-mail or Twitter and I'll get it on there.

Enough reading this though... Go read everyone else's stuff today. 

Monday morning links - 7/2

Well holy freakin crap, the grades from last season are finished!!! And to top things off, it's hotter than balls outside, and this writer has a basement living room with no windows that is nice and cold. This all equates to probably a lot more writing on here for a change, as well as an upcoming 20-part summer feature that should stir up a little conversation.

Now, you're probably thinking, "Yeah right, this idiot took three whole months to bust out basketball's final grades." And you know what? I agree!! But with the start of fall football camp only a little more than a month away, the excitement is building.

In the meantime, it's time to get caught up on what's been going on around the USU world from everywhere else. There's been a handful of football recruiting commitments, some basketball updates and a few extra-curricular activities. So let's jump in...
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First off, Tony Jones was right there with me through most of May and June in taking time off. He's been a lot more on the ball lately though, so here's some of the important stuff from the last few weeks.

• Football is already up to 11 commits for the 2013 class. Not sure we were able to say that until mid-January this past year.
• The basketball schedule is coming together... just without USC.
• The Maurice Alexander situation is finally explained.

Now for the best of the rest...

• Nick Ballam offers up a solid review of some pick-up basketball. Be sure to read the disclaimer though.
• College football finally pulls their collective heads out of their asses. We're getting a playoff!!!
• Braden Harris gets his own football feature after committing to be an Aggie.
• The WAC Tournament will stay at The Orleans in Las Vegas for one more season.
• *EDIT - Just stumbled across this gem from Brandon Gurney at the D-news about the recent upswing in USU's football recruiting.

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That's all for now. Be back a little bit later to outline that 20-part feature that's coming up.