Spring Valley girls basketball coach Billy Hemberger doesn’t like to alter his up-tempo style based on the opponent.
Basketball
Just 24 games in the season, the Sacramento Kings fired coach Michael Malone, multiple media outlets reported late Sunday night.
Kobe Bryant eclipsed Michael Jordan on the National Basketball Association’s all-time scoring list on Sunday, surpassing the legendary scorer during the second quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers’ game at the Minnesota Timberwolves.
With his team leading by three points with time winding down, Valley boys basketball coach Brian Farnsworth knew Clark was going to try to get the ball to senior Carter Olsen. Farnsworth’s players made sure Olsen didn’t get an open look.
Cold second-half shooting was too much for the UNLV women’s basketball team to overcome Saturday night in a 93-84 loss to Southern Utah in Cedar City, Utah.
Rashad Vaughn scored 18 points and had plenty of help as UNLV defeated South Dakota 75-61 before an energized sellout crowd of 3,250 at the Sanford Pentagon.
Rashad Vaughn scored 18 points, and freshman Patrick McCaw made big plays to help the Rebels run away with a 75-61 victory over South Dakota before a lively sellout crowd of 3,250 at the Sanford Pentagon on Saturday night. McCaw totaled 12 points, four steals and four rebounds.
The Rebels are 3.5-point favorites when they travel to Sioux City to face the Coyotes today at 5:00 p.m.
A game against a Summit League opponent with a 3-7 record on a somewhat neutral floor would not ordinarily be the type of spot to put UNLV on high alert.
After two months of practices and seven games, UNLV freshman Rashad Vaughn has seen and heard enough. The time for using youth to explain away losses has passed.
Centennial’s Darrian Traylor doesn’t have much varsity experience after missing his junior year with a knee injury.
Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant directed his trash talk toward his teammates in practice Thursday, saying the other players were “soft like Charmin.”
Liberty girls basketball coach Chad Kapanui would have liked to have seen a little more offense out of his team Thursday.
Former UNLV guard Bryce Dejean-Jones was arrested overnight in Story County, Iowa, according to several reports. But a judge tossed out a drug-related charge at a hearing Thursday morning, saying police lacked probable cause.
The first major “I Can’t Breathe” protest from college sports would naturally come from Georgetown, where societal statements are part of the school’s DNA.