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Phil Jackson claims he’s done coaching multimillionaires after this NBA season. At 65 and with 11 championships and 1,098 wins in his back pocket, the decision to retire was easy to make. Jackson coaches in Las Vegas for the final time when the Los Angeles Lakers host the Sacramento Kings at 7 p.m. today at the Thomas & Mack Center.
UNR and Fresno State continue to talk with Western Athletic Conference officials about their defection to the Mountain West Conference. The WAC argues that both schools didn’t notify the conference in time and must stay through the 2011-12 academic year. The WAC also says each school owes a $5 million exit fee.
Social networks don’t define our lives anymore. They run them. That reality has placed the UNLV football career of junior wide receiver Phillip Payne in a tenuous position, the reported result of his Twitter account producing negative comments about a first-year coaching staff led by Bobby Hauck.
An opinion poll in October, revealed in an e-mail from the Mountain West Conference, did not cause UNLV coach Lon Kruger to temper his enthusiasm about the months ahead. Media covering the Mountain West picked the Rebels to finish fourth in the 2010-11 season.