Expectation vs. reality. It’s a common encounter for UNLV basketball this time of year, for all college teams the second week of October.
Ed Graney
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The kicks. Had to love them. They were silver and shaped in a way Ryan Moore could have played both 18 holes and a few hours of pickup basketball with no issues. It’s as if Fukijama went to work for Puma.
If this is bouncing back, I’d hate to see what UNLV’s football team looks like when it’s not focused.
Effort should be the one guaranteed trait a football player owns. Speed. Strength. Skill. Smarts. You can lack in all of these and still play hard.
If his son wasn’t a member of the California Redwoods, I might have thought Denzel Washington attended the United Football League’s inaugural game Thursday night to scout talent for a new movie.
I have met UNLV president Neal Smatresk once. I have spoken to him twice. I know he ran track and swam in high school. I know he has a daughter who played soccer and a son who played baseball. I know his wife enjoys watching volleyball.
Mike Sanford has to be coaching for his job on a weekly basis now. If he’s not, it will be because his superiors at UNLV have forgotten the most significant rule: the program comes first.
RENO–As the seconds tick down to yet another kickoff for UNLV-UNR football today and some take odds on whether Mike Sanford will enter Mackay Stadium on an elephant to fully experience the circus atmosphere he insists is part of the state rivalry game, it’s important to clear up a few misconceptions regarding the Limited Access Bowl.
There was nothing Mirjana Lucic couldn’t do on a tennis court. If only her father had stopped beating her off it. Perhaps then, she wouldn’t have disappeared from the game for nearly five years. Now she’s back, at the USTA Pro Circuit Lexus of Las Vegas Open at Red Rock Country Club.
On its face, Mike Sanford limiting media access to his UNLV football team this week means as much as one raindrop in a monsoon. Absolutely nothing.
This is what Tom Busch sees weekly that NASCAR fans don’t: one of the best Sprint Cup drivers in the world spending his day off under the hood of a car for six hours with a young driver eager for guidance.
So now we know. Mark Martin lives in Daytona Beach, Fla., an hour’s drive up Interstate 95 to reach the coastal town of St. Augustine, where about 12,000 people reside and you can find more than 20 species of crocodile at the local zoo.
It’s a good thing Chip Kelly doesn’t manage the Chicago Cubs. Or coach the Detroit Lions. Or produce movies starring Rob Schneider.
UNLV’s football team hasn’t won a Mountain West Conference road game in four years under Mike Sanford. None. Zilch. Zero.