Thankfully, things might not be as crazy around here as I feared last week.
Football
Brigham Young playing a bowl in Las Vegas is old hat, but this year’s game has a new name and will break fresh ground from a competitive standpoint.
Instead of representing her bowl game Saturday in Provo, Utah, where potential invitees Utah and Brigham Young will meet, MAACO Bowl Las Vegas executive director Tina Kunzer-Murphy will attend alma mater UNLV’s season finale against San Diego State at Sam Boyd Stadium.
When Utah celebrated its stunning victory over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl last January, Texas Christian players couldn’t have been faulted for believing that they should’ve been dancing in New Orleans.
RENO — With expectations as high as they’ve ever been, UNR coach Chris Ault figures to have a pretty good idea how good this year’s Wolf Pack team could be by the time it finally plays its first home game the fourth week of the season.
When he hops on his skateboard after UNLV football practices and wheels to the parking lot, Ryan Wolfe has the look of California cool, and the temptation is to stereotype him as a surfer dude who doesn’t take much seriously.
The belief began last year for the UNLV football team, when it put together its best season since 2003, and that confidence has carried over.
All it took was one Sunday to dramatically change the balance of power in the NFL last season. Tom Brady took a fall, and the New England Patriots’ hopes of reaching the Super Bowl plummeted.
Six weeks. Six months. Doesn’t matter. When entering into contract negotiations for securing your lot in life as a college football bowl game, specific facts always determine your fate.
A memorable drive directed by quarterback Ben Roethlisberger helped the Pittsburgh Steelers pull out a thrilling Super Bowl victory. But in Nevada, the game was not one for the record books.
In one of the most dramatic finishes in Super Bowl history, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger rallied the Pittsburgh Steelers to a victory that had Las Vegas sports books rocking Sunday.
Exactly five minutes into the Super Bowl, a moment of high anxiety has arrived for bettors. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has struggled for a 1-yard touchdown run.
Try this in high school or at the mall, and you’d have an all-out brawl.
The Arizona Cardinals-Pittsburgh Steelers matchup has been analyzed and overanalyzed the past two weeks.
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