I remember the telephone conversation, the optimism in his voice and determination to build a winning basketball program and excitement about coming home. Dave Rice was talking from his car that afternoon, en route with his family from Provo, Utah, to Las Vegas.
At the same time UNLV called a news conference to announce that Dave Rice had been fired — er, came to a “mutual agreement” with his athletic administration that he would step down as Rebels basketball coach — people were parking their cars and SUVs for “Disney on Ice” at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Who’s next? Now that Dave Rice has been fired as UNLV men’s basketball coach, who will be the next coach? Keep your eye on these names:
The Brooklyn Nets fired head coach Lionel Hollins on Sunday and reassigned general manager Billy King within the organization.
The Review-Journal Sports will unveil some new features beginning this week. Those changes began in Sunday’s print edition with columnist Ron Kantowski debuting his Las Vegas Insider. He will report on the sports people that make up the city.
Las Vegas Review-Journal sports reporter Mark Anderson becomes president of the Football Writers Association of America this morning in Scottsdale, Ariz.
When it was announced the new MGM/Anschutz Entertainment Group arena being shoehorned in between New York-New York and the Monte Carlo would be called T-Mobile Arena, hardly anybody complained.
It has reached the point of big picture thinking, far beyond losing to another inferior team and blowing yet another big lead and falling to 0-3 in a terrible conference without yet playing any of the best teams in said terrible conference, beyond appearing to have no answers on how to improve what is an offense that can only be described as UNLOLV.
Patrick McCaw banked in a meaningless 3-pointer at the buzzer, finishing off another head-scratching UNLV loss and kick-starting serious speculation about whether time has expired on coach Dave Rice.
