SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Cal Poly's season-opening football game Saturday night against Humboldt State has been designated as Youth Day. All youth football teams are encouraged to join the Mustangs for the 6:05 p.m. game in Alex G. Spanos Stadium.  Players wearing their team jersey or a T-shirt with team emblem will be admitted free. Tickets for parents and other family members are $14 general admission and $18 reserved ($8 and $12 for youth 13...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Cal Poly (0-0, 0-0 Great West) opens its second season under head coach Tim Walsh on Saturday night by hosting Humboldt State (0-0, 0-0 Great Northwest) for a non-conference game at 6:05 p.m. PDT in Alex G. Spanos Stadium (11,075). The Youth Day contest will be broadcast live on ESPN Radio (1280 am) and KCPR Radio (91.3 fm) with Tom Barket providing the play-by-play and Joe Harper adding color commentary. Links...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Former Cal Poly cornerback Courtney Brown continued his bid for a spot on the roster of the New York Giants, recording two tackles and a pass deflection Saturday night in the Giants' 24-10 exhibition loss to the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium. Brown, who deflected a pass from Troy Smith to Marcus Smith midway through the fourth quarter, now has eight solo tackles, three assisted tackles and one tackle on...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Cal Poly's 2010 Fall Camp is over and the coaches and players will turn their focus to Humboldt State on Monday morning. The three-week fall camp featured six double-practice sessions, one live scrimmage, a few hot days earlier this week and a fair share of injuries. "In every camp you're going to have injuries," said second-year Mustang head coach Tim Walsh," and we had plenty of those. "But I think we had a...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- When second-year Cal Poly head football coach Tim Walsh arrived at practice Monday morning and saw a pair of hobbled quarterbacks, he couldn't help but wonder who would be next on the injury list. Today, the list is getting shorter. Senior quarterback Tony Smith, who suffered a bone bruise in last Saturday's scrimmage at Alex G. Spanos Stadium, took some snaps Wednesday and should be at full speed by Monday. Sophomore signal caller...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Cal Poly senior wide receiver Dominique Johnson has been named to the College Sporting News’ 2010 Preseason FCS All-American second team. Johnson, who transferred to Cal Poly from UCLA in the summer of 2009, caught 43 passes for 741 yards and six touchdowns last season. He broke the school record for touchdown receptions in a game with five against South Dakota, catching 13 passes for 273 yards. Johnson was a second-team All-Great...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Cal Poly is ranked No. 25 in the preseason FCS Coaches Poll released Monday. Coach Tim Walsh's Mustangs, 4-7 a year ago, shared the last spot in the top-25 poll with Holy Cross, which posted a 9-3 mark in 2009. Cal Poly received votes, but not enough to crack the top 25 in the Sports Network preseason poll of media and sports information directors last week. Defending national champion Villanova was chosen as...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Former Cal Poly linebacker Chris Gocong and defensive back Courtney Brown combined for 11 tackles in National Football League preseason games Saturday night. Gocong started at inside linebacker for the Cleveland Browns and notched five solo tackles on defense and one more on special teams as the Browns fell 19-17 to the St. Louis Rams in Cleveland Browns Stadium. Gocong also recorded one quarterback hurry and a pass deflection in his second...