As the fast runners headed for the tape, Christian Jackson of Palo Verde High took a hard tumble. Steven Walker thought somebody should do something. He picked up his fallen rival and they crossed the line together.
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“I think you could make the point this was as good a week for UNLV golf as anybody can remember,” said Jack Sheehan, a longtime observer of the Las Vegas golf scene. “In ‘98 they won the (men’s) national championship, but I don’t think they even had a women’s program then. And then Hoffman shakes off the demons …”
The NCAA’s APR — Academic Progress Rate — is like WAR in baseball, but even more convoluted. It has been in the news a lot at UNLV during the Rebels’ search for a new basketball coach.
A woman was struck by Kyle Busch’s car after the reigning Sprint Cup champion from Las Vegas crashed out of Sunday’s race at Bristol, Tennessee.
The Coyotes have lost only four games since Feb. 6 while winning 32. They are ranked 10th in the nation. They are on a roll and eyeing a return to the junior college World Series in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Shane Christensen played high school basketball for Bishop Gorman, and college basketball for Montana. More recently, he has been spinning the basketball on his finger, nose, face and head for the world famous Harlem Globetrotters.
Tyler Summitt, the son of a coaching legend, resigned at Louisiana Tech after it was learned he had an improper relationship with one of his players.
In a move that caught most in the NHRA off guard, Leah Pritchett’s team closed shop doors this week, leaving the up-and-coming driver in the unemployment line.
When word got out that Chris Beard was going to be the new UNLV basketball coach, a 45-year-old man from Las Vegas named Che’ Jones wrote a letter and attached a resume about his dream. He wants only to be an assistant basketball coach at UNLV.
It is billed as the world’s largest participatory sporting event for women. When it ends in three months, it will have pumped more than $120 million of nongaming revenue into city coffers.
They made Chris Beard sit there for more than two hours while they discussed whether he was worthy of making $900,000 next season for drawing up X’s and O’s on his now famous dry eraser board, and $1.4 million a couple of seasons down the road, provided he is as successful here as he was at Arkansas-Little Rock last season.
The 51s begin a new season Thursday night against PCL champion Fresno at Cashman Field seeking the answer to the same tired question, to use the Bryce Harper vernacular: When are they going to get a new ballpark?
When Las Vegas 51s pitching coach Frank Viola talked about pitching prospects during the New York Mets’ spring training at Port St. Lucie, Florida, he couldn’t remember them all.
There’s a common perception that it’s not about winning in the minor leagues, that it’s about developing players, or why else would the big league teams call up a bunch of guys in September right when the Triple-A playoffs are starting?
I know there were three ballgames Sunday, but today is the real Opening Day as far as I am concerned — because today is the first day your mom could write a note and sign your doctor’s name to excuse your absence from school.