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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Kyle Bambard remembers all the missed kicks that sapped his confidence early in his freshman year at North Carolina State. Now hes working through the Wolfpacks training camp with competition from a graduate transfer.Bambard and Connor Haskins are competing for the starting job for a team desperately needing someone to provide reliable production at the end of stalled drives.Its going to be critical just because youre talking about points on the board, Wolfpack special teams coordinator Eddie Faulkner said. Well continue to let them compete and obviously we want to get the right guy out there.While the Wolfpacks quarterback battle attracts the most attention, the team is trying to find a starting kicker for the Sept. 1 opener against William & Mary as well as get both ready for the 12-game schedule.Bambard made 7-of-14 field goals last year, a 50-percent conversion rate that was last in the NCAAs Bowl Subdivision national ranks. He missed three kicks from 39 or fewer yards and didnt make one longer than 37.Ill be the first to tell you I struggled last year, Bambard said. I know the situations I put this team in and I put my coaches in and I put myself in. And Ill also be the first to tell you that Ive worked my butt off this offseason to make sure that doesnt happen again.Bambard missed six of his first nine kicks and said he let the bad start get to him, though he made four of his last five field goals. He said he hopes to build on that by focusing on kicking execution instead of the overall pressure to put one through the uprights.My technique wasnt flawed last year, he said. My mindset was flawed.Haskins arrived in January to compete for the job after three years at Division II UNC Pembroke. Haskins made 38-of-53 field goals (72 percent) during his career, including long kicks of 48 yards in each of his first two seasons and a 50 yarder in 2014.He sat out last year ahead of his move to Raleigh for what he called a great opportunity for both me and Kyle.Hes got years left, I dont, so I kind of feel like Ive got to step up immediately and play, Haskins said. But I came in here to play. I didnt come in here to sit the bench.Weve had a good competition. I think both of us are very capable of getting the job done. Im betting on myself: I think I can get the job done and I want to be out there on Saturdays to play.---Follow Aaron Beard on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/aaronbeardap and the APs college football site at http://collegefootball.ap.orgChina Jerseys Stitched . -- Matt Kuchar and Harris English ran away with the Franklin Templeton Shootout, shooting a 14-under 58 on Sunday in the final-round scramble to break the tournament course record. Fake China Jerseys . 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There is a massive sporting heritage and that gets overlooked.The same goes for Yorkshire, the county Brownlee is from and which could lay claim on Thursday evening to athletes who have won four gold medals, four silvers and two bronzes.Day in, day out we see people cycling, cross country races, people running, people swimming. The British support far out-weighed any other countrys support [at the triathlon]. There were easily more British flags out there than all the other flags put together, more Yorkshire flags than any other country.When we race in Leeds or London they have by far the biggest crowds on the circuit and it shows we love it. That has to count for something because it makes our pool [of participants] big.Money makes a difference too, of course. The UKs triathlon governing body was given nearly ￡7.5 million for the years 2013-17 from an overall Olympic payout to British sports just short of ￡274.5m.The money comes from lottery funding and is distributed by UK Sport, which uses a model that cuts investment if a sport fails to meet its targets for excellence.Triathlon has achieved its goal of two medals from Rio with Brownlee and brother Jonny taking gold and silver at Copacabana beach. The support from UK Sport is phenomenal, Alistair said. It allows me to sit down every year and see what I need to get into shape, access to staff, physios, coachhes physiologists, everything.ddddddddddddWe [Britain] have that attitude that the Olympics is everything. To win at the Olympics you have to turn up better than you are the rest of the time and thats a really, really important construct that we get right across so much UK sport.It comes from the funding model and everything else, and there is a great feeling of people doing well.The feelgood factor is particularly strong in Yorkshire. The countys roll of honour for these Games so far includes divers Jack Laugher and Chris Mears, rowers Andrew Triggs Hodge and Zoe Lee, heptathlete Jess Ennis-Hill, cyclists Ed Clancy and Katy Marchant and gymnast Nile Wilson, in addition to the Brownlees.Boxer Nicola Adams, who is assured of at least silver after making the flyweight final, will be added to that list on Saturday.I am very proud to be from Yorkshire and its interesting that there are so many medals across so many sports, Brownlee said. It would be interesting to see if it is relatively good for its size, because its quite a big place.On Thursday evenings standings, Yorkshires tally would have been enough to claim 16th place in the medal table, one place below Brazil and above nations such as Kenya and Canada.We have, like the rest of Britain, a massive sporting heritage which we make use of all the time and has brought us through, Brownlee said.[That comes from] people loving sport and endurance sport, going out on the Dales and out and about on bikes. People [there] love sport and that has been crucial in our upbringing and careers and long may it continue. ' ' '