Spring drills are just around the corner for many programs (UNLV begins Monday), about the time an NCAA playing rules oversight panel will vote on a proposal that states a defense can substitute within the first 10 seconds of the 40-second play clock, excluding the final two minutes of each half.
Scott Turner and Shane Steichen have remained close friends since they were quarterbacks at UNLV, and they still have 702 area codes for their cellphone numbers, taking a little piece of Las Vegas wherever they go. And that includes to the NFL as assistant coaches.
A Cleveland Browns offer for 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh in exchange for draft picks never happened, but it would have meant Harbaugh would have coached twice a year against his brother, John, who is at the helm of the Baltimore Ravens.
UNLV coach Bobby Hauck got his wish with the Rebels scheduled to face UNR on Nov. 29 at Sam Boyd Stadium to end the regular season.
Last week’s column on Bob St. Clair and the undefeated 1951 University of San Francisco football team — “The Best Team You Never Heard Of” according to the ESPN documentary showing this month — generated a lot of email and phone calls from readers who remembered St. Clair or that Dons team. Or had a father who did.
UNLV lost on the field when it played North Texas in the Heart of Dallas Bowl. The Rebels, though, won’t take as big a loss financially, or perhaps no loss at all.
Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter testified Tuesday that he was essentially paid to play via his scholarship. Colter characterized playing college football as a job and said schools make clear to incoming players that athletics are a higher priority than academics.
Randall Cunningham is humbled. When he thinks back, he sees only a big deficit on the scoreboard, 80,000 lunatics screaming at him and Bruce Smith on a mission to rip his head off.
A former Miami Dolphins lineman identified as one of the targets of harassment in the racially charged bullying scandal, has no has no problem with the team, his agent said in a statement Saturday.
UNLV’s Bobby Hauck favors proposed rule changes designed to slow offenses. In fact, said the proposed change of forcing offenses to wait at least 10 seconds before snapping the ball to allow the defense to substitute doesn’t go far enough.
A couple of years ago I went to the West Coast Conference Hall of Fame breakfast hoping to talk to Bo Kimble about shooting free throws left-handed and playing UNLV in the NCAA Tournament. I wound up talking mostly with NFL Hall-of-Famer Bob St. Clair.
Amid the debate over whether the NFL is ready for an openly gay player, such as Michael Sam, remember that the great Vince Lombardi was, and Lombardi seemed like an old-fashioned guy if there ever was one.
Former Missouri star defensive end Michael Sam tells ESPN he is gay.
The worst Super Bowl is over, and now we look ahead to the next one. At Station Casinos, Seattle is the 9-2 favorite, followed by San Francisco at 5-1. “You have the two favorites to win the Super Bowl in the same division,” Sunset Station sports book director Chuck Esposito said. “I can’t remember that ever happening.”
Tim Cornett, UNLV’s career leading rusher, has received an invitation to the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis.
