Mouton, Injuries, Receivers, RGM Profile, Photos

Stephen Tsai has an injury update on Ryan Mouton.

"I told him if he can go by Wednesday, he'll play," Jones said. "If he can't, he won't."

Two weeks ago, Mouton was fitted for a knee brace. Although he said the pain has subsided in the back of his right knee, the brace is "really for security purposes, to get my confidence, to let me know I can run," Mouton said. "It helps."

Also in the article is a short profile of Daniel Libre, who worked out as a first team running back yesterday. And Tsai has injury reports on Blaze Soares, Greg Salas, Aaron Bain, Joey Lipp and Desmond Thomas.

Jason Kaneshiro has an injury update on Mouton, and writes about the blocking skills of the UH receivers.

"Ryan and Davone, they both have a few pancake blocks and Jason is probably our most physical guy, so I think he's excellent at making blocks, especially downfield," Hawthorne said.

"We don't practice it much, but it's instinctive. We understand the more we help each other out the better it's going to be in the long run."

The long runs often come as a result of a solid block, whether it comes downfield on a pass play or simply getting in the way of a defender to provide a crease on a draw or shovel pass to the running back.

Speaking of the receivers, Ryan Grice-Mullen-Mullins is profiled in the San Bernardino Sun by J.P. Hoornstra.

Sheila Pinkney wouldn't miss a Warriors game in San Jose for the world, but she couldn't see her son from the front row. So Grice-Mullen's mom and her husband, Alvin, moved up about 20 rows.

"That whole game, I believed they (Hawaii) were going to win," Pinkney said. "My spirit was with him, willing him on. I stayed standing up the whole game, telling the crowd to stand up with me.

"You know how you feel you can make a difference? That's what I was feeling. Given the opportunity, he could make a difference."

Chadd Cripe of the Idaho Statesman breaks out the fireworks for Boise QB Taylor Tharp.

Tharp jumped past Hawaii's Brennan, the Heisman Trophy candidate and 2006 national leader in pass efficiency, with a five-touchdown performance Saturday at Louisiana Tech.

Tharp ranks 11th in the nation with an efficiency rating of 157.3 (18 touchdowns, seven interceptions). Brennan is at 157.2 with 20 TDs and 10 picks.

That may not seem like much, but that is a hefty tenth of a point.



And after suffering through some computer issues, Orlando of UHWarriorFan.com has finished a new Scout Bowl photo gallery. Links are on the bottom of this page. He's switching over from Flash to HTML, so some people who were having issues viewing the photos can now view these new photos.