All it took was one Sunday to dramatically change the balance of power in the NFL last season. Tom Brady took a fall, and the New England Patriots’ hopes of reaching the Super Bowl plummeted.
The belief began last year for the UNLV football team, when it put together its best season since 2003, and that confidence has carried over.
When he hops on his skateboard after UNLV football practices and wheels to the parking lot, Ryan Wolfe has the look of California cool, and the temptation is to stereotype him as a surfer dude who doesn’t take much seriously.
RENO — With expectations as high as they’ve ever been, UNR coach Chris Ault figures to have a pretty good idea how good this year’s Wolf Pack team could be by the time it finally plays its first home game the fourth week of the season.
When Utah celebrated its stunning victory over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl last January, Texas Christian players couldn’t have been faulted for believing that they should’ve been dancing in New Orleans.
Aggravated by sagging and sloppiness, three valley residents came up with creative solutions to their problems — and hopefully others.
Nalini is a hip young urbanite who just bought her first home — a century-old, converted loft in the heart of the city. It’s a super-funky space, and Nalini just loves it, but the cramped kitchen just didn’t fit in with the condo’s high ceilings, wooden beams and exposed ductwork. The layout was awkward, there was little storage space and there were the awful pink walls. The kitchen was dreary, uninspiring and just not conducive to cooking and entertaining — two must-haves for Nalini.
: Recently, you wrote about replacing a water heater’s drain valve. A friend told us that we should also check the anode rod. Is this worth checking? If so, how do we do that?
DEAR READERS: Many of you have written asking if plastic water bottles are safe to reuse. With so many of us using them, it’s a good time to revisit the issue.
The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s desert landscape design classes, “Landscape Design with the Desert in Mind,” will run for eight weeks starting the evenings of Sept. 14 and 15. During this series of classes that I assembled, you’ll learn to design your own landscapes and how to install them. For more information, please call our master gardener help line at 257-5555.
DEAR GAIL: We’ve just finished landscaping our backyard and want to spend more time out on our patio. We’d like it to feel like another family room, not a typical outdoor patio. Any ideas? — Betsy P.
Until a few weeks ago, southern Utah’s Newcastle Reservoir was little more to me than a name on a map or one of those brown signs you drive past on your way to somewhere else. Driving past the signs to Newcastle Reservoir is something I’d done for more years than I care to admit.
A billboard near the Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Ind., recently grabbed Fighting Irish football coach Charlie Weis‘ attention — and it wasn’t an ad for McDonald’s.
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. arrived fashionably late Wednesday at his gym off Spring Mountain Road, where his father, Floyd Sr., was waiting for him. Their on-again, off-again relationship is back on as the elder Mayweather has been a welcome visitor at his son’s training camp and everyone seems happy.
• LAKE MEAD — Anglers are finding fair fishing in the morning, then are leaving before it gets too hot and windy. Top-water action continues to yield stripers. Anglers are catching fish by jigging or using cut anchovies. Fishing for catfish is good during lowlight conditions using anchovies in the Vegas Wash area. Fishing has been good for largemouth, smallmouth and striped bass near Stewart’s Point.
Mark Tondryk spent six years as an assistant to Basic’s Larry Burgess, the most celebrated distance coach in Southern Nevada over the past 25 years.
Pat Davis set two goals for her Durango girls tennis team this season.
Since falling a season-worst 14 games under .500 on June 16, when they were 26-40, the 51s have gone 42-31, clawing their way back to .500 (57-57) at one point.
Money might not buy happiness, but it certainly appears to contribute to success in high school athletics.
UNLV defensive coordinator Dennis Therrell prefers not to view Saturday’s season opener against Sacramento State as a player audition; it’s a football game, and winning is the priority.
Local volleyball observers know all about the Taylor Richard who hammers balls from the outside and causes opposing coaches to plan their defenses around her.
Lu Torres is compiling a list, and trust me, it’s not a list Strip hotels want to be on. It’s a list of places where women believe they were drugged before being raped.