Near the end of his sophomore year at Arizona State, J.J. Sferra was ready to call it quits on his baseball career. He had grown tired of the game he grew up playing.
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By the end of the baseball season, UNLV coach Buddy Gouldsmith might be ready to run a marathon. He seemed to be training for one Tuesday night, repeatedly trotting from the dugout to the mound to change pitchers.
UNLV’s Dwaine Knight has coached golf long enough to know the surest path to a berth in the NCAA Championships is to win the league tournament.
The top-seeded UNLV women’s tennis team lost to No. 29 Texas Christian 4-1 Saturday in the finals of the Mountain West Conference Championships in Albuquerque, N.M.
Following the nation’s top college pitcher is a tough act, but it’s one San Diego State senior right-hander Jon Berger embraces.
The telephone rang in the sports information office at UNLV around 2 p.m. on Thursday. A local college baseball fan had a question:
In a few months, San Diego State right-hander Stephen Strasburg might be trying to throw fastballs past major league hitters. It certainly would be much more stressful than the challenge he faced Thursday.
Pete Manarino coached for decades in the mecca of youth softball. He witnessed the skill, watched it be nurtured, lost track of the number of travel teams at, oh, tons.
Before his team teed off Sunday in the final round of the Southern Highlands Collegiate Championship, UNLV men’s golf coach Dwaine Knight gave his players a history lesson.
When Morgan Hoffmann left Southern Highlands Golf Club on Friday after shooting par, the Oklahoma State freshman felt comfortable with the course. He thought he would play better in Saturday’s second round of the Southern Highlands Collegiate Championship.
Colby Smith wasn’t looking to do anything magical at Southern Highlands Golf Club on Friday.
UNLV men’s golf coach Dwaine Knight is convinced his team is talented enough to repeat as champion of its annual spring tournament.
Missy Ringler’s lip quivered a little, but she made sure to hold her emotions in check.
It still is a long way to May, when the postseason for collegiate golf programs gets decided. But UNLV women’s coach Missy Ringler knows this is an important week for her team.
In 2008, UNLV’s women’s golf team overcame a slow start and made the NCAA championships.