Is it beginning to feel more like 2000, or 2003?
UNLV Football
The league that used to complain about a lack of respect now is getting all it can handle.
UNLV has reached a four-year deal to begin a home-and-home football series with Navy in 2014. The Rebels would host Navy in 2014 and 2016, and play at Annapolis, Md., the other two seasons.
A sign of continuing progress:
This was the type of game previous UNLV football teams would have lost.
Logic would dictate that a football team can’t just run the same play every time it needs a touchdown.
When UNLV tailback Frank Summers decided to mentally move past last Saturday’s big victory at Arizona State, he plowed forward as if a Utah linebacker stood in his way.
Hidden away in Ely for training camp, Omar Clayton completed pass after pass as he took charge of the offense.
The memory of the controversial conclusion to UNLV’s football game at Iowa State two years ago lives on — and not just in the YouTube clip that features an angry Rebels coach Mike Sanford.
Given what happened to his conference last weekend, Pac-10 commissioner Tom Hansen picked a good time for a European vacation.
UNLV wide receiver Phillip Payne’s spectacular one-handed touchdown catch that sent Saturday’s football game at Arizona State into overtime made ESPN’s highlights and created plenty of buzz among Rebels fans.
Mike Sanford’s reaction following his football team’s upset of Arizona State on Saturday night is precisely why the celebration rule that cast a dark cloud over the Brigham Young-Washington game a week earlier needs to be shredded like unnecessary documents.
Even though UNLV must turn its attention to the future, most notably Saturday’s home game against Iowa State, the Rebels’ 23-20 overtime victory at Arizona State on Saturday night was so stunning, it demands a visit to the past.
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TEMPE, Ariz. — Mike Sanford has experienced three painful two-victory seasons in a row as UNLV’s coach.
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