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There’s no justifying hiring Dave Bliss to coach

Calvary Chapel Christian School hires disgraced Dave Bliss to coach basketball despite his involvement in one of college basketball’s most tragic scandals.

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Former UNLV big man Lou Amundson to make Las Vegas return

In 2015, when he started 35 games of the 41 he played for the Knicks, former UNLV basketball player Lou Amundson became the 12th player in NBA history to perform for 10 teams.

Remembering Las Vegas’ first national basketball champions

Paul Son-Dice of Las Vegas, led by former UNLV Rebels Armon Gilliam, Sudden Sam Smith and Greg Goorjian, won the 1984 AAU men’s national basketball championship on home turf.

Thurl Bailey and N.C. State: Still winning on the dunk

Former North Carolina State star Thurl Bailey never gets tired talking about the Wolfpack’s upset of Houston in the 1983 NCAA championship basketball game.

Familiar faces match up under a Big Sky

Former UNLV interim coach Todd Simon, Durango High equipment manager Jack Murphy share coaching stage as Southern Utah knocks off Northern Arizona.

CSN athletic director trying to bring back basketball programs

Dexter Irvin, director of athletics at College of Southern Nevada, will start raising money to reinstate men’s and women’s junior college basketball at the Henderson campus.