Roundup: Aaron Rodgers wants to play until he's 40

Jul 16, 2018

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers recently said he wants to play until he’s 40 years old. Rodgers, who dropped this knowledge on NBC Sports’ Peter King (linked here by Yahoo Sports), is 34.

Oregon track and field head coach Robert Johnson announced Ben Thomas as the associate head coach for cross country and track and field. Thomas has spent the last 17 years at Virginia Tech.

The Pac-12 Conference announced weekly home and away designations for the upcoming men's basketball season on Monday morning. The Bruins open conference play hosting Northern California foes Cal and Stanford at Pauley.

San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman said that the Seattle Seahawks “lost their way.” Big burn from a former founding member of the Legion of Boom.

Arizona quarterback Khalil Tate was put on the Maxwell Award watch list (top FBS player), it was announced Monday morning (Arizona Daily Star). There are a ton of Pac-12ers on the watch list, so I won’t bother trying to list them here.

Washington State safety Jalen Thompson was named to the Bednarik Award watch list, it was announced Monday morning.

Jeff Metcalfe gives us the story of how Herm Edwards went from going undrafted to becoming a nine-year starter in the NFL as the Arizona Republic continues its deep dive into the Arizona State football CEO’s backstory.

Ken Goe writes that Oregon State catcher Adley Rutschman has a shot at being the No. 1 pick in the 2019 MLB Draft. Dude was remarkable in the College World Series.

From the world of women’s rowing, USC’s Radka Novotnikova was named a CRCA first-team All-American on Friday. She is USC’s 29^th All-American in program history.

Gordon Monson waxes poetic on Utah men’s basketball’s non-conference schedule in this piece for The Salt Lake Tribune. He is a fan of the tougher sledding.

Mathew Huff of NuggLove.com believes that signing Isaiah Thomas “made too much sense” for the Denver Nuggets. Getting that kind of scoring on a 1-year, $2 million deal? Hell yeah.