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Sam Merrill signs new contract with Cleveland Cavaliers | Sports

Former Utah State star guard Sam Merrill signed what is a record-breaking deal for a player with his background. The former 60th overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft signed a four-year, $38 million contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers, which will make Merrill the highest-ever paid player taken with the 60th pick, which is the final spot in the NBA’s two-round draft. The signing was reported by ESPN reporter Shams Charania. The Aggie legend, who ranks second in all-time scoring in USU program history, has been a staple of the Cavaliers’ rotation for each of the last two seasons. Between this year and last, Merrill has appeared in 132 games, averaging 18.7 minutes per game, 7.5 points, 2.1 rebounds, 1.6 assists and shooting 38.8 percent from three. In this year’s playoffs, he appeared in eight games, making three starts prior to Cleveland’s second-round exit from the postseason. Merrill’s contract with the Cavaliers, signed in March 2023 as a follow-up to a 10-day contract he signed with the team, ended with the conclusion of the 2024-25 season. On Monday at 4 p.m. MT, Merrill would have been eligible to sign with a different NBA franchise as a free agent. However, Cleveland has

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June 28, 2025 No Comments

Buffalo Sabres trade Peterka to Utah Mammoth for Kesselring and Doan | Sports

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Sabres’ long-anticipated offseason retooling began late Wednesday night with the team agreeing to trade forward JJ Peterka to the Utah Mammoth for forward Josh Doan and defenseman Michael Kesselring. Both teams announced the deal with Utah revealing it signed Peterka to a five-year contract worth $38.5 million. Peterka completed his rookie contract this season, and was eligible to become a restricted free agent next week. “There is a lot of excitement and positive momentum surrounding our team right now, and adding a player of J.J. Peterka’s caliber and offensive upside is another great step towards achieving our objectives as a group,” Mammoth president of hockey operations Chris Armstrong said. This is a major swap of young players all within their first three full seasons of NHL experience. The 23-year-old Peterka is coming off consecutive 25-plus goal seasons, including 27 this year with a career-best 68 points in 77 games. Doan, a 23-year-old winger, is the son of longtime Arizona Coyotes star Shane Doan, and his departure is the organization’s latest move that separates this Salt Lake City chapter from the past. He had seven goals and 19 points last season as a rookie. Kesselring, a

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June 26, 2025 No Comments

In Northwest Division, NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder get deeper, Jazz get busy, Wolves go big | Sports

After building an NBA championship team with a commitment to young player development, the Oklahoma City Thunder dived back into the draft pool a few days after the celebration. The Thunder used the 15th overall pick in the first round on Wednesday night on Thomas Sorber, a 6-foot-9 versatile defender with the potential to be an effective low-post scorer who played one season in college at Georgetown. Sorber can provide some bulk and depth behind the slender Chet Holmgren and his frontcourt partner, Isaiah Hartenstein. Oklahoma City also had the 24th pick, sending it to Sacramento in a proposed trade. General manager Sam Presti’s trades in recent years have allowed the Thunder to stockpile picks for maximum control over the most unpredictable aspect of professional sports. They have as many as 10 first-round picks, including their own, over the next five years, including three in 2026. Last year’s first-rounder, point guard Nikola Topic, is nearly recovered from a torn ACL in his left knee that kept him out for his entire rookie season. The Utah Jazz, who bottomed out this season with the worst record in the league, have a long way to go with their rebuild. After bad lottery luck left them with the fifth

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June 26, 2025 No Comments

Emptying the notebook from a USU men’s basketball open practice | Sports

The lights at the Wayne Estes Center were on early Tuesday. Utah State’s men’s basketball team showed up in time for practice at 7 a.m., but it was a former member of the team, Aggie legend Sam Merrill, who showed up first. He flipped the lights on a 5:45 for an offseason workout as he prepares for another season in the NBA. “I sent a video to the Cavs general manager,” USU head coach Jerrod Calhoun said. “I said there’s not too many players in the NBA that grind like Sam Merrill.” For the current Aggie players, it’s a bit earlier than they’re used to practicing, at least in the offseason. Calhoun said they’ve done more early-morning work, getting up a 6 a.m. and in either the weight room or gym by 7 a.m., something Calhoun said has been good for the team. “We’re really kind of modeling what Houston does,” Calhoun said. “Talked to Alan Bishop, an Aggie, a strength coach down there at Houston and really picked his brain about a month ago of how we kind of want to attack this summer and all our workouts have been really, really early.” Utah State is now three weeks

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June 25, 2025 No Comments

Estimates on potential revenue sharing amounts for Mountain West teams | Sports

The revenue-sharing era of college sports is set to begin in a matter of days. The House settlement and its host of new rules, among them being the allowance for universities to directly pay players, takes full effect on July 1. For the power conference schools, teams in the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC, this means sharing all the way up to the designated cap of $20.5 million from their budgets (which range from $100 million to nearly $200 million at the top end) with players. For the rest of the schools, those in the Group of Five — the Mountain West, American, Sun Belt, Conference USA and MAC — reaching that revenue-sharing cap is not viable. The question at this point becomes which programs can reach the highest amount of revenue sharing. While having what is essentially a salary cap could end up having a leveling effect on the Power Five, since every team will theoretically be paying the same amount of money on their rosters, the Group of Five (perhaps soon to be Group of Six as the Pac-12 rebuilds) are in a different camp. There are only two G5 teams that project to come anywhere

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June 23, 2025 No Comments

Rebuilding Pac-12 reaches deal with CBS for its football and men’s basketball games | Sports

The Pac-12 struck a media-rights deal with CBS on Monday that sets up the network to broadcast a minimum of four football and men’s basketball games per season on its main network and provide a cable and streaming presence for the reconfigured league from 2026-31. Financial details of the new deal were not disclosed. Conference Commissioner Teresa Gould called it a “transformational partnership” that allows the Pac-12 to grow when it starts as a remodeled league in 2026-27. An inability to secure a media deal is what nearly cratered the league in 2023, with all but Oregon State and Washington State departing for the Big 12, Atlantic Coast and Big Ten Conferences. The Pac-12 already had deals in place to put all of the two remaining teams’ football games on the CW, ESPN and CBS for the upcoming season. The new deal with what the league calls its “primary long-term media partner” kicks in the next season, when Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Utah State and San Diego State will join the Pac-12 in all sports, with Gonzaga joining in everything but football. The Pac-12 needs to add another football program to reach the minimum eight teams necessary to

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June 23, 2025 No Comments

Johnny Hill, Curran Walsh re-join USU men’s basketball staff | Sports

LOGAN – Two former Utah State men’s basketball staff members, Johnny Hill and Curran Walsh, are returning to Logan in similar roles to their previous stints. Hill will serve as an assistant coach and Walsh will be the director of player personnel and analytics. Hill’s addition replaces the loss of assistant coach Eric Daniels, who left to take the same position at the University of Utah under its first-year head coach Alex Jensen. Hill spent one season at Utah State, having followed Danny Sprinkle from Montana State to Logan, and served as an assistant coach and director of player development under Sprinkle. In the 2024-25 season, Hill was an assistant coach at University of Illinois Chicago, focusing on defense, scouting and player development. Prior to his first stint at USU, Hill served in assistant roles at Montana State, Grand Canyon and Northwestern Ohio. “We’re very excited to bring Johnny and his wife back to Logan,” USU head coach Jerrod Calhoun said in the university’s press release about the hirings. “He was a part of one of the greatest teams in Utah State history. He comes highly recommended by Matt Painter, Rob Ehsan and Danny Sprinkle. When trying to establish a staff,

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June 20, 2025 No Comments

Two Ridgeline stars headed to national contenders | Sports

Anne Wallace is to Utah’s high school softball what Emilee Skinner is to girl’s basketball.  Lorene Hale They are the best in the state. They were both elite athletes at Ridgeline High School; Thursday the state’s high school coaches voted Wallace “Ms. Softball” for all high school classifications while Skinner was “Ms. Basketball” the last two years, and again that is for all of the state’s six classifications. Wallace helped the Riverhawks — coached by Michael Anderson — to two state 4A softball championships in her time there. Girls basketball coach Ainsli Jenks guided her last three Ridgeline teams to 4A state titles. It is obvious these two aim to carry forward the standard they’ve set during unparalleled high school careers. Lorene Hale As a junior at Ridgeline Wallace committed a year ago to play at the University of Texas which means when she reports to campus in Austin, Aug. 21, her name will be part of the roster of the defending national champion Longhorns. She has played catcher and third base throughout her high school career. Wallace finished her high school career as Utah’s record setter in home runs and RBIs. Her 27 home runs as a sophomore is

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June 20, 2025 No Comments

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