Don’t be misled by coach-speak that suggests every game is as important as the next.
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Matt Shaw says it wasn’t about making a statement, because he has been part of a college basketball program for years now and understands the roller-coaster ride that is a 30-game regular season. He has seen how rhythm shooting can propel teams to unbelievable stretches of play, how it can demoralize even a ranked opponent.
UNLV needs to play basketball today as if it’s the one opening a jaw and showing teeth. It needs to clamp down and not let go.
As far as coach-quarterback combinations go, only a couple in the NFL inspire belief in bettors more than Sean Payton and Drew Brees. Who imagined the New Orleans Saints would be considered cutting edge and hip?
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — The stage is set for the first ladies of racing. Now all Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta have to do is show up.
At an NCAA Tournament party inside a South Point ballroom in March, hundreds of college basketball fans gathered for the opening day of games.
They ate (some), drank (a lot) and wagered (even more). They cheered and booed. They shot baskets for prizes. They laughed when Brigham Young lost another first-round game.
After attending the annual Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show a couple of weeks back, I can now, with full confidence, predict the future of firearms in America is black.
The telephone in the high school football coach’s office rang a few days after the announcement of a hiring at UNLV. The visit came shortly thereafter.
Almost three decades have passed since David Humm of Las Vegas was Jim Sorgi, at least the Jim Sorgi who does not have a strained right hamstring and has been placed on injured reserved for the Super Bowl. Only David Humm
Throw out the two games the Indianapolis Colts tanked, a self-sabotage scenario which threatened the integrity of the NFL, and Peyton Manning is 16-0 as a starting quarterback this season. Manning has won every game the Colts didn’t try to lose. In reality, he has a perfect record.
After 26 years, it appears they are trying to run out Chris Ault as football coach at UNR. The Little General. One of three active coaches in the College Football Hall of Fame. Being run out.
The annoying thing is not that Tim Tebow has chosen now to restate his Christian values before the world but rather that anyone would question the timing.
Only in the Super Bowl can a golfer (Phil Mickelson), a hockey star (Sidney Crosby) and a socialite/TV personality (Kim Kardashian) figure into the outcome of a wager. This is a football game unlike any other.
The betting public has already picked a side. The Indianapolis Colts are 51/2-point favorites over the New Orleans Saints on Feb. 7 in Miami, and Las Vegas sports books are getting flooded with cash on the Colts.
The books and contrarians will pull for Drew Brees and the Saints to slay the NFL’s Goliath quarterback, Peyton Manning.
If you see 301 hyperactive horseplayers at Red Rock today and Saturday, don’t be alarmed. The jitters are real, as the contestants pursue a $500,000 first prize in the 11th annual $982,000 Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship.
It was at the Super Bowl a few years back, during the commissioner’s annual news conference two days before kickoff, when I asked Roger Goodell about the possibility of an NFL team ever making Las Vegas home.
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