Brett Rypien grew up in a crimson family 90 minutes north of the Washington State campus where his uncle Mark is immortalized in the schools athletic hall of fame as part of the great lineage of Cougars quarterbacks.Rypien was a record-setting prep quarterback at the same high school where his uncle was a star, and the choice of where he played collegiately was based on where he wanted to go, not who came to find him. Going to Washington State was not what Rypien wanted, however.He didnt want to always face the comparisons to what his uncle did at the school three decades ago. He wanted his own college experience.So when Rypien finally chose to play at Boise State, he avoided the endless comparisons to his uncle. But he was also stepping into a different kind of shadow.It let me step out of Marks shadow and into Kellen Moores, Rypien joked this week.All kidding aside, there will be strife in the Rypien family this weekend when Washington State travels to face Boise State. What was initially supposed to be the marquee non-conference opportunity for Boise State this season is now also a seemingly must-win game for the Cougars after they got stunned at home by Eastern Washington on the opening weekend.While the Cougars were getting shocked by an FCS program in Week 1 for the second straight year, Rypien was putting up numbers in the Broncos opener at Louisiana that make Boise State fans salivate over whats to come with the young quarterback. Rypien threw for 304 yards in the first half as Boise State scored touchdowns on five of its first seven possessions. Rypien finished with 347 yards passing, the sixth time in his young career that hes topped the 300-yard mark.Last season was supposed to be a year of watching for Rypien. He was going to follow the plan Boise State used with Moore -- redshirt as a freshman -- before taking charge of the program. Moore went on to be the winningest quarterback in FBS history, leading the Broncos to 50 wins in his four seasons at Boise State, throwing for nearly 15,000 yards and 143 touchdowns.That plan to follow what Moore did lasted all of three games. When Ryan Finley went down with an ankle injury in the first half against Idaho State and the team realized it was going to be a significant injury, the call went out to Rypien.You think youre redshirting and then all of a sudden youre thrown into the fire, Rypien said. It was kind of a blur to be honest.Rypien finished last season leading the Mountain West with 3,353 yards passing and was the conference freshman of the year. He threw for 506 yards against New Mexico and capped his year with 377 yards passing and three touchdowns in the Poinsettia Bowl blowout of Northern Illinois.There is a tremendous amount of stuff hes got to get better at from fundamentals to understanding to situational football to leading and these are all things that have been addressed, Boise State coach Bryan Harsin said. And the thing about Brett is I wouldnt say the way he played was always the most impressive, but the most impressive thing is what hes done since hes played to put himself in a better position this year, hopefully.This is the only week there will be strained allegiances in the Rypien family. Mark, who was a first-team all-Pac-10 quarterback at Washington State and later a Super Bowl MVP, has been an invaluable resource for his nephew on various football-related issues in the past. He even flew out to Virginia last September when Brett made his first career start against the Cavaliers.I know its going to be difficult on him. Hes already told me, he hopes I throw for a lot of yards in that game, but we lose by three, Brett Rypien said. I know where his heart is at for sure, but its going to be tough, I think, on him.---Online: AP College Football site: http://collegefootball.ap.org/ Jachai Polite Jets Jersey . -- Ty Montgomery had 290 all-purpose yards and two touchdowns, and fifth-ranked Stanford held on to beat No. Keyshawn Johnson Youth Jersey .C. -- Al Jefferson joked that he feels he can score from anywhere on the court. http://www.authenticnyjetspro.com/Curtis-martin-jets-jersey/ . What general manager Dave Nonis called "short and productive" negotiations ended with Kessel signing a US$64-million, eight-year contract on Tuesday. 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In the beginning I was struggling to have visibility because of the spray, so I was struggling to keep up because I couldnt see where I was going!But once that cleared a bit I could push and I got past Nico on the outside, the car had a lot of grip around the outside too so you can make that move. From then on the pace is good but you dont want to switch too early to the slick tyre. I had one guy in front of me had blue flags and I could clearly see slick tyre was faster now and I pitted, maybe one lap too late, but you play it a bit safe.Verstappen stayed ahead of Rosberg when the field pitted for slick tyres and kept the Mercedes at bay despite the championship leader having DRS for seven laaps.dddddddddddd He kept Rosberg at bay with some aggressive blocks coming into Stowe -- one of which Rosberg complained about on the radio -- before the German got by around the outside.Lewis was not pulling away too much and from there on Nico was pushing hard, he was giving me a hard time and we had some good fights into Stowe. We were struggling a bit on the straights but he pulled off a great move around the outside and from there I was just doing my own race, there was no pressure from behind because there was a very big gap.Then I heard Nico had a problem. Of course I tried to close the gap and get past but once you get into dirty air its difficult to get even closer. I think in general we can be happy, we finished only eight seconds behind or something so in general the car has been working well all weekend. I have to say a thank-you to the team for giving me such a great car for the weekend.Verstappen may yet inherit second position, with Rosberg under investigation for the radio messages which helped him finish the race after encountering gearbox issues late in the race.? ' ' '