IN BRIEF

COLLEGES

Lady Rebel basketball unveils tough schedule

The UNLV women’s basketball team released its schedule Monday, and the Lady Rebels could face up to 10 teams that reached the postseason last season.

UNLV has 16 home games on its 29-game schedule, including the season opener against Long Beach State on Nov. 9, part of a doubleheader with the men’s team.

The nonconference schedule also includes perennial power Texas Tech and a pair of top-25 programs from last season in Montana and George Washington.

The Lady Rebels open Mountain West Conference play at home Jan. 9 against Colorado State.

Also: Jamere Holland, one of Southern California’s fastest players, has been dismissed from the football team by coach Pete Carroll.

Holland, a 6-foot-1-inch, 190-pound wide receiver from Pacoima, Calif., was listed as a third-stringer on the depth chart entering fall camp.

Holland is the second player to leave the Trojans in recent days, joining tailback Emmanuel Moody, the team’s second-leading rusher as a freshman last season. Moody, one of several tailbacks competing for playing time, decided to transfer.

Iowa leading receiver Dominique Douglas and another player were suspended from the team after being arrested for unauthorized use of a credit card.

Douglas, a sophomore who led the team in catches and receiving yards last season, was arrested Sunday and charged with making more than $2,000 in purchases to credit cards belonging to two other people, a Johnson County, Iowa, District Court record said.

Anthony Bowman, a sophomore reserve receiver who played last season on special teams, also was charged and was suspended from the team.

Sam Keller will start at quarterback for Nebraska in the season opener against UNR on Sept. 1.

Keller, who transferred from Arizona State last year, had been competing with two-year backup Joe Ganz.

Kansas State tight end Rashaad Norwood was suspended after being arrested and charged with domestic battery over the weekend in Manhattan, Kan.

Pittsburgh freshman offensive lineman Chris Jacobson, challenging for a starting job, will have surgery to repair a dislocated knee cap, an injury that could force him to miss the entire season.

MISCELLANEOUS

Las Vegan advances in Olympic boxing trials

Las Vegan Michael Hunter won his super heavyweight quarterfinals match at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Houston, defeating Nate James of Malden, Mass., 23-11.

Hunter led 4-1 at the end of the first round, and James was unable to recover. Going into the fourth round, Hunter led 16-7.

Fellow Las Vegan Diego Magdaleno was decisioned by Miguel Gonzalez of Cleveland in the lightweight division, 20-13.

Also: A 31-year-old man was shot during an altercation outside the suburban Orlando, Fla., home of Washington Wizards guard DeShawn Stevenson, authorities said.

Stevenson, 26, was asleep at his home when shots were fired about 4 a.m. Monday. He was not injured, according to a sheriff’s report.

Curtis Ruff, 31, drove up to a local hospital in an Escalade seeking treatment for gunshot wounds to his legs, a sheriff’s spokesman said.

All five games at the Little League World Series were postponed because of rain in South Williamsport, Pa.

Free-agent defenseman Jon Klemm, a member of two Stanley Cup champion teams in Colorado, signed a one-year contract with the Los Angeles Kings.