TEMPE, Ariz. -- Arizona State coach Todd Graham has named sophomore Manny Wilkins as the teams starting quarterback.Graham told Arizona Sports 98.7 FM on Friday that Wilkins will start Saturday night against Northern Arizona, but added the quarterback competition with redshirt freshman Brady White is not over.Arizona State is one of two FBS schools (with Tulane) to enter the season without a quarterback on the roster who has thrown a pass in college. Wilkins and White started spring football in a competition with Bryce Perkins before separating themselves in fall camp.Wilkins played sparingly as Mike Bercovicis backup last season, running seven times for 55 yards. Swell Norge . It was just business as usual for the Thunder at home. Durant scored 32 points and the Thunder beat the Bulls 107-95 on Thursday night for their eighth straight win. Swell Flaske 500 Ml .5 million, one-year contract on Friday. 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RENTON, Wash. -- The aftermath of the first NFL tie since 2014 became a study in the delicate psyche of kickers, and how they are handled by their coaches.Last Sundays 6-6 tie between Seattle and Arizona was remarkable from many aspects. One of the lasting memories were the reactions from Arizona coach Bruce Arians and Seattle coach Pete Carroll to a pair of short missed field goals in overtime that could have won the game for either team.Arizonas Chandler Catanzaro had a 24-yard field goal clang off the left upright, and minutes later Seattles Steve Hauschka pulled a 28-yard attempt wide left . Then came the reactions, and a study in how two coaches seeking the same goal took differing tones.Arians was gruff, Carroll was supportive.Arians on Catanzaro: Make it. This is professional, this aint high school, baby. You get paid to make it.Carroll on Hauschka: He made his kicks to give us a chance, and unfortunately he didnt make the last one. Hes been making kicks for years around here ... but hes gonna hit a lot of winners as we go down the road here. I love him and hes our guy.Two divergent reactions, all with the same goal of getting their kickers to be better.It means a lot to me, Hauschka said this week. Coach is incredible. He is the reason that this team is so good and why this whole atmosphere up here in Seattle is so positive. And it all starts with him. I couldnt ask for a better head coach.With such a unique role on the team, and such a specific skill in stark contrast to the rest of the roster, kickers really only have their peers who can relate to their highly visible and deeply scrutinized mistakes. How coaches handle those mistakes can be all over the spectrum.Back in 2009, then Seattle coach Jim Mora unloaded on kicker Olindo Mare immediately after he missed 34- and 43-yard field goals in a 29-25 loss to Chicago.Were not going to fight our (tails) off, and have a field goal kicker go out there and miss two field goals and lose a game. Its not going to happen, Mora said.A day later, Mora apologized for his harsh assessment.There was no such recanting from Arians. Catanzaro was already drawing the ire of his head coach before his overtime miss Sunday. A bad snap helped led to Catanzaros missed field goal that would have beaten New England in the season opener.And while Arians said he still fully supports Catanzaro, he expressed it in an acerbic way.The kicker just needs to kick it through the two poles and wed be 5-2, he said.ddddddddddddMinnesotas Blair Walsh didnt watch the game Sunday night, but he sure knew how Catanzaro and Hauschka were feeling afterward. Walsh missed a 27-yard field goal last January that kept the Vikings from beating the Seahawks in the first round of the playoffs.Those are two great kickers, and theyll be fine, Walsh said. I know both of those guys will have great years, and they shouldnt worry.The fraternity of kickers is tight. Catanzaro had a similar reaction after seeing Hauschka miss.I never pull for another kicker to miss, Catanzaro said. It was tough. My reaction the other night, I wanted another shot to win it for the team because they deserved for me to put that through. But I hated to see Hauschka go out there and miss it. Hes a great kicker and hell come back from it.Being a kicker puts them in a glaring spotlight. Walsh knows that all too well after last seasons miss.From the suburban first-graders who wrote him sympathy cards the day after the game to the teammates who consoled him in the locker room, Walsh has experienced more support than backlash -- despite the predictable social media trolling from upset fans. He has some inspirational quotes hanging in his cubicle at the teams practice facility, motivation passed on by one of his high school teachers.Walsh, though, has been unable to put the gaffe out of the public discussion. He missed two field goals and an extra point in the season opener, shanked another extra point two weeks later, and missed another field goal the game after that. The Vikings won all of those games comfortably, but while they havent brought in any free agents for competition, theyve clearly lost some patience.We need to make those, or its going to bite us in the rear end, coach Mike Zimmer said after Walshs last miss on Oct. 3.Zimmers public stance on supporting Walsh has fallen somewhere between the reactions of Carroll and Arians, though tilting more toward Arians lately.Were going to need Blair down the stretch and need him to play well for us, special teams coordinator Mike Priefer said, and hopefully thats what hell do.---AP Pro Football Writer Dave Campbell and AP freelance writer Jose Romero contributed to this report.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '