Fade passes to sophomore receiver Phillip Payne are nearly automatic, and UNLV couldn’t have picked a better time to call one Saturday night.
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UNLV football players could have spent the week moaning about a questionable and costly pass-interference call that went against them last weekend.
It’s not as if UNLV’s secondary took the past two weekends off, but it didn’t face anything like Hawaii’s run-and-shoot, throw-almost-every-down offense.
Now listen lads, I’m not happy with our tackling. We’re hurting them, but they keep getting up.
With roughly 9,500 residents of Hawaiian or South Pacific heritage, Las Vegas is often referred to as the ninth island.
Trying to become the first Bowl Championship Series outsider to reach the national title game, Brigham Young knows it can’t waste opportunities to impress a national audience.
Editor’s Note: This is the latest installment of a weekly feature in which the Las Vegas Review-Journal asks 20 questions of a member of the UNLV football team.
Now is when we see if all the talk about experience and attitude and determination is true.
The book on Oregon State is if you’re going to get the Beavers, get them early.
The word from Corvallis is that Jacquizz Rodgers is a busy guy who doesn’t get all that excited about interviews. At least that’s the word an Oregon State media relations department official offered Monday.
The UNLV-Baylor video from 1999 has become a teaching tool for Rebels cornerbacks coach Mike Bradeson.
When UNLV tailback Channing Trotter tries to elude Oregon State linebacker Keaton Kristick on Saturday, it might bring back some memories.
When he became the San Diego Chargers’ coach in 1999, Mike Riley didn’t hesitate to ask Mike Sanford to join his staff.
If the spotlight on Brigham Young was intense entering last season, it’s nothing compared to the laser beam pointing at the Cougars now.