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Football
Not much was expected of UNLV when it opened last football season against Minnesota. The Rebels were 8½-point underdogs in the home game, but took the Big Ten Conference foe to three overtimes before losing, 30-27.
In the next few months, Neal Smatresk will introduce the school’s 12th full-time athletic director — who will take over a troubled department with shaky finances, a struggling football program and a poor relationship with the Thomas & Mack Center.
Though his team took some serious graduation hits after finishing second in the state last season, Liberty coach Rich Muraco still had high hopes for his team’s season opener.
I absolutely believe that within the next 80 or so years, perhaps around the time Bobby Hauck’s great-great-great grandson is arm wrestling elks in Montana, UNLV will navigate through a schedule unscathed. Here’s why it could happen this season.
Mountain Pointe (Ariz.) scored on its first play from scrimmage Friday night on the way to a 28-21 Sollenberger Classic victory over Bishop Gorman, ranked No. 21 by USA Today.
When Liberty lost in the state semifinals to Bishop Gorman in 2011, Patriots football coach Rich Muraco decided the best way to compete with the private school powerhouse was to beef up his team’s nonleague schedule.
When Bishop Gorman’s football team kicks off its season Friday night, senior Zack Singer will be right in the middle of things. And that’s exactly the way he likes it.
DeMarco Murray is ready to do with the Dallas Cowboys what he finally did in his third year with the Oklahoma Sooners — put in a full season after frustrating setbacks cut short the first two.
Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez was indicted Thursday on a first-degree murder charge in the death of a friend whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial park about a mile from the ex-player’s home.
UNLV’s first-year coordinators arrived in Ely with plenty of questions about their players. They left here Wednesday with many more answers, saying most of their top priorities were met as the Rebels returned to Las Vegas.
Senior kicker Nolan Kohorst, whose name already is prominent in UNLV’s record book, has a chance to become the school’s all-time leading scorer. He’s just not sure he wants that recognition.
Google has been holding talks with the National Football League, raising speculation that the internet monolith is seeking new inroads into television.
Torn ACL. Dislocated ankle. Broken fibula. Torn MCL. Fractured hip. Pectoral tear. Torn triceps. Torn PCL. Knee strain. Torn Achilles. Torn hamstring. And that’s just off a cursory glance at the NFL’s injury report for this preseason.