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USA Today
10-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Panthers HC Dave Canales explains decision to sideline RB Jonathon Brooks for 2025 season
Panthers HC Dave Canales explains decision to sideline RB Jonathon Brooks for 2025 season The Carolina Panthers are hoping that a lost season will help kickstart a promising future for running back Jonathon Brooks. On Thursday, the team placed the 21-year-old Brooks on the physically unable to perform list—a move that has effectively ended his entire 2025 campaign. The decision comes in the middle of his recovery from an ACL tear he sustained back in December. Head coach Dave Canales, after wrapping up the final practice of rookie minicamp on Saturday, explained why the Panthers went down this route so early. "It really just allows him to focus on what he's working on—which is full health, strength, best shape of his life to give him the best chance for when he comes back to us, he's running on all cylinders, that he doesn't have to think about anything. He can just play football and enjoy the game," Canales stated. "And that's really what this is about. It's about him just being able to have a clear focus on what the goal is." Brooks is now on the comeback trail from his second torn ACL in as many years. He already missed the first 10 games of the 2024 season in healing up from his first tear, which occurred while playing for the University of Texas Longhorns in November of 2023. The Panthers, despite the injury, still traded up to select Brooks in the second round of the 2024 draft. He went on to appear in just three games, totaling 22 rushing yards on nine carries and 23 receiving yards on three catches. Follow @ThePanthersWire on Twitter/X for more Panthers content.
USA Today
30-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Texas clinches Lone Star Showdown trophy for the 2024-25 school year over Texas A&M
Texas clinches Lone Star Showdown trophy for the 2024-25 school year over Texas A&M Texas has clinched the Cotton Lone Star Showdown trophy. The University of Texas Longhorns have clinched the 2024-25 Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown trophy, marking their seventh win in the rivalry series against Texas A&M. The annual competition, which includes all varsity men's and women's athletic events, was reimagined as the Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown prior to the current season. The Longhorns secured an 11-5 lead in the point standings following a baseball series sweep over the weekend. With only 2 points left to be decided in men's and women's outdoor track and field at the SEC Championships on May 15-17, Texas has an insurmountable lead. The Lone Star Showdown began before the 2004-05 season and lasted until 2011-12. It was brought back as the Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown for the 2024-25 season. Texas has now won the Lone Star Showdown in 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, and Holdings sponsors all head-to-head sports contests between Texas and Texas A&M in Austin and College Station. They also sponsor the year-long scoring system that determines the annual Lone Star Showdown rivalry series trophy winner. The history between the Texas Longhorns and Texas A&M Aggies began in 1894 with football. In 2011, Texas A&M joined the Southeastern Conference, which ended the schools' 118-year consecutive meetings. To continue the rivalry in other sports, the Lone Star Showdown was created in 2004. Each winner of a head-to-head matchup gets a point, and the school with the most points at the end of the year wins the series and the Lone Star Trophy.
