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BOISE, Idaho -- Boise State coach Bryan Harsin hasnt hesitated to call for featured running back Jeremy McNichols to get the ball 40 times in a game.On Friday night, Harsin found hes got another talented running back in Alex Mattison. And hes only a freshman.McNichols ran for 158 yards and two touchdowns, Mattison had a career-high 100 yards rushing on 18 carries and one touchdown, and No. 24 Boise State beat San Jose State 45-31.The Broncos (8-1, 4-1) had two players over 100 yards on the ground in one game for the first time since Nov. 8, 2014, against New Mexico.(Giving Mattison more carries) was predetermined on our part, Harsin said. We knew he was ready for his opportunity. But its not just about running the ball. Its also about being able to protect the quarterback in different looks.McNichols cant carry the ball like he has every single game. Were trying to spread the wealth a little big among those guys.San Jose State (3-7, 2-4), looking to get consecutive wins for the first time this season, finished with 495 yards of offense behind Kenny Potters 23-of-36 passing for 278 yards.After suffering a gut-wrenching loss last week to Wyoming on a safety in the waning minutes of the game, Boise State looked sluggish in the first quarter as it held a 7-6 lead.However, the Broncos got the spark they needed with a little razzle dazzle. On fourth-and-12 from their 37, Broncos punter Sean Wale took the snap and raced 29 yards for a first down.Finally after four years, I had a chance to do something so I had to make the most of it, Wale said. It was my one chance to shine, and I certainly wasnt sliding. But I didnt really know what to do once I got into the open field.Three plays later, Mattison scored on a 19-yard run to extend Boise States lead to 14-6.It couldve been a stop on downs for us if wed been able to make the play, Spartans coach Ron Caragher said. But we didnt and it changed the momentum of the game.I was very proud of this teams response after last weeks loss, Harsin said. We have to stay focused on what we can control and try to go out and play our best each and every week.San Jose State kept the pressure on Boise State, edging within 14-13 with 10 minutes remaining in the first half. But that was as close as the Spartans would get as the Broncos took control of the game.Boise State learned a powerful lesson last week, and they got back to running the football and controlling the line of scrimmage behind their big offensive line, Caragher said.Boise State, which finished with 517 total yards of offense, had a season-high 298 yards rushing. McNichols performance was his seventh 100-plus yard game this season and fourth in a row.Malik Roberson led the Spartans on the ground with 109 yards and a touchdown, his second 100-yard game of the season.TAKEAWAYSSan Jose State: The loss squelched the Spartans chances of becoming bowl eligible, but they still have a chance to finish strong after a 1-5 start. Their final two opponents, Air Force and Fresno State, have combined for only two conference wins.Boise State: The Broncos no longer control their own fate in the Mountain division, but the victory keeps their hopes alive. They still need either Wyoming to lose two games or New Mexico to win out to win the division.UP NEXTSan Jose State: The Spartans take a week off before returning home to host Air Force on Nov. 19.Boise State: The Broncos will take travel to Hawaii next Saturday in a conference tilt.POLL IMPLICATIONSBoise State lost 11 spots in the poll last week after losing to Wyoming but shouldnt fall any farther this week. However, San Jose State isnt an opponent thats likely to greatly improve the Broncos standing among voters either.WALE OF A QUOTEWale was proudly showing off a big bruise on his right arm in the post-game press conference that he received when he was tackled on the fake punt play that resulted in a first down. However, he admitted he wouldnt want to get tackled every week like that. I respect those guys who get hit like that. I couldnt do it. I got a little bruise. 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Olympians Abbey DAgostino and Nikki Hamblin have shown us how.Halfway through the 5,000 meter qualifying race in Rio, the pack of Olympic runners jostled their position. U.S. athlete DAgostino abruptly adjusted her stride and, like dominoes in a chain, the runner behind her, New Zealands Nikki Hamblin, stumbled and fell. Hamblin lay sprawled on the track for seconds, a definitive delay amidst a race won by thousandths of a moment.?Immediately, DAgostino, who had also fallen, was kneeling beside her, whispering, Get up. We have to finish this.Tears streaming, Hamblin staggered forward, determined to finish. For a few meters the women hobbled side by side, until DAgostino crumpled to the ground once more, clearly suffering a serious injury.This time, Hamblin turned back and offered her hand to DAgostino. Grimacing with pain, DAgostino finished the race, half a minute after Hamblin. Though their Olympic expectations dissipated, DAgostino and Hamblin became heroes, not for running faster than their competitors, but for being more courageously human.Heroes, these runners teach us, must fall. Heroes must lose their balance, give up their grip, jump, only to slip upon landing.The necessity of falling is two-fold. One must have been willing to face the fear (of falling, or even the burden of triumph), a force strong enough to keep many of us from even starting. No journey can happen without begiinning.ddddddddddddTherefore the very premise of falling -- of starting -- is fundamental.There is also something more that falling demands: to fall we must go to the edge of what we want, what we think, what weve planned for and take one step beyond.We must teeter.We had gone through scenarios of the worst things that could happen, and falling over was not the worst, Hamblin said after her race. Like, we had never even really talked about it.DAgostino fell not once, but twice, in her 17 minutes of running. While runners finished the race, neither made it to the final heat of the event. Falling is what made them potential heroes: both stepped beyond what she thought could, would, or should happen. Both risked failing by trying.How they got up after their fall is what made these runners heroes. These women understood the second essential of heroism: to help and be helped. Heroes, to paraphrase mythologist Joseph Campbell, feel the pull of 1,000 invisible hands hoisting them on their journey.For Hamblin and DAgostino on that hot August day in Rio, the hands were far from invisible -- they came from one another. DAgostino reached out to Hamblin, urging her to finish. Hamblin, in turn, comforted DAgostino, standing next to her as she fell for a second time. Their heroism wasnt their finishing time or place at the Olympics -- it was their courage to risk failing, to fall, to receive the hands that pulled them back up, and then to offer their hand to another. The training for this kind of heroism requires neither judge nor official committees -- merely the fearlessness of stumbling, and the strength to reach out to another.Training starts now. NFL Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Cheap Jerseys 2019 Cheap Jerseys China Wholesale Jerseys 2020 Cheap Jerseys Online China NFL Jerseys ' ' '