Los Angeles Lakers legend and future Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant and Desert Oasis senior Ron Chan have a few things in common. Both love basketball, they’re both in the midst of their farewell seasons and both scored milestone buckets Thursday night.
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A snowstorm hit this region Thursday, when coach Dave Rice put the UNLV basketball team on a bus to Denver for practice. It made for a fitting scene. Rice is leading the Rebels into the eye of a storm.
The basketball season is over for a Tennessee high school team, which has been embroiled in a hazing incident that has led to three teammates being charged with rape.
In the bowels of a chilly Moby Arena, on a long wooden bench outside his team’s locker room Wednesday evening, Ben Carter lowered his head and sobbed. A teammate emerged to try to console him. Then a student manager. None could do so.
A difficult start to Mountain West play turned downright ugly on Wednesday night as UNLV fell to 0-2 with a road loss at Colorado State.
The UNLV women’s basketball team had its hands full with arguably the best team in the Mountain West Conference in town.
With a five-point lead and less than a minute on the clock, UNLV was seemingly in control of the game. A short time later, after his team’s improbable collapse, coach Dave Rice lost control.
There was an Instant Classic on ESPN on Monday night, and then on Wednesday morning, there was this, in bold, black letters, on the University of Oklahoma athletic website: WEST VIRGINIA, KANSAS MBB GAMES SOLD OUT.
Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James is concerned for troubled Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel.
Patrick McCaw must play better. He must score more. He must produce.
The UNLV women’s basketball team had a special guest Monday. Sequoia Holmes, a Lady Rebels alumna and former WNBA player, participated in practice as a scout player.
When losses start to pile up, a team needs a spokesman other than the coach to handle damage control. Ben Carter has stepped up as the UNLV player who says the right things.
Kobe Bryant has enjoyed an illustrious career while wearing two separate jersey numbers and with his final chapter approaching it has left the Los Angeles Lakers with a decision about which one to retire.
One game into the Mountain West schedule, UNLV coach Dave Rice is facing a season on the brink. But is his basketball team on the brink of crisis or recovery? The answer should be obvious by the end of this month.
Madam Jennifer O’Kane knows a stark little truism about the world’s oldest profession: Discretion is a working girl’s best friend.
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