Here is the danger of high school sports teams running up the score against inferior opponents:
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The competitive games were late at night, sometimes not until 1 or 2 a.m., when the older guys showed. The older, bigger, stronger, more athletic guys.
You can’t be Wink Adams and second-guess a 3-pointer or jab step to the baseline or pull-up jumper going to your left. Confidence to a basketball player like Adams is radar to a pilot. Its importance is immeasurable.
The 10th annual Daily Racing Form/National Thoroughbred Racing Association National Handicapping Championship will be today and Saturday at Red Rock. The purse is $1 million, with a first-place prize of $500,000.
From the frustration in Ray Granmoe’s voice, there was no mistaking things weren’t going the way he had hoped they would when the evening began. Granmoe, an auctioneer, was about halfway through the live auction at the annual fundraising banquet for the local chapter of the Safari Club International and already had called a pass on five of the first 16 items because the bidding was insufficient or nonexistent.
The message surrounding Lance Armstrong has always been more important than the suspicion. The objective has rightly always carried more weight than the gossip.
If the loss at Texas Christian and the debacle at Colorado State proved anything, it’s that the separation from upper to lower tier in Mountain West Conference basketball isn’t as obvious this season.
You can find their names and statistics inside the UNLV basketball media guide, but numbers aren’t what set them apart. An edge did. A rare quality.