The 2013 waterfowl season got off to a good start with local hunters bagging limits of resident birds and some early migrants, but the action slowed quickly as those birds moved out and balmy temperatures lingered over Southern Nevada. This has waterfowl hunters hoping that a weather front will come in from the northwest and begin pushing a few ducks and geese our way.
■ LAKE MEAD — Cooler nights have dropped the water temperature around the lake, and with that fishing for smallmouth and largemouth bass has slowed. Some anglers still are having success by trolling with divers in water no deeper than 20 feet or casting squarebills and Texas-rigged worms. Striped bass seem to be holding in deeper water. Those who are catching fish are reeling in ones mostly in the 2- to 3-pound range.
In the second game of a third season under its current coaching staff, with what has been lauded as the best basketball team Dave Rice has featured at UNLV, this is today’s reality: The Rebels on Tuesday night were dominated by UC Santa Barbara out of the Big West Conference.
My competitive side clearly has gotten the better of me. But I can’t help it. I’m desperate.
Guys helped each other out during the flatbed trailer era of auto racing. It wasn’t so cutthroat then, and you could walk around the pits with a pack of Marlboros rolled up in the sleeve of your T-shirt, and nobody said anything. This is why I think Tom Pfundstein could have raced in those days.
Michael Blasko and Cole Krzmarzick kicked around the idea of attending the same college, but the seniors on the Bishop Gorman baseball team weren’t serious about it initially. Then they heard the recruiting pitch from first-year UNR coach Jay Johnson.
Chael Sonnen made only one request of his bosses at UFC as they tried to find him an opponent for the organization’s 20th anniversary card. Sonnen said he would be willing to fight anyone but Rashad Evans.
Dwayne Morgan, a 6-foot-7-inch forward from Baltimore, signed a national letter of intent with UNLV on the opening day of the early signing period.
Mike Tyson fought Spike Lee and lost. “Spike Lee took it and made me all by myself. Put me onstage pretty much emotionally naked, just baring my soul to people,” Tyson recalls. “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” makes its televised debut at 8 p.m. Saturday on HBO.
