NBA referee Bill Kennedy announced he is gay on Monday, less than two weeks after he was reportedly called a gay slur during a game by Sacramento Kings point guard Rajon Rondo.
Basketball
When I was a senior in high school, the Golden State Warriors were NBA champs. They had Rick Barry and Jamaal Wilkes, with the funky shooting stroke, and Clifford Ray. They also had Al Attles’ leisure suits, and his pointed collars and pants, which often were loud or plaid.
When it came to winning time, Patrick McCaw made all the big plays at both ends for the Rebels.
Golden State’s record 24-game winning streak to start the season came to an end on Saturday in a 108-95 loss to the Bucks in Milwaukee.
Patrick McCaw scored 17 points, eight rebounds and seven steals to lift UNLV to a 73-62 victory over UC Riverside on Saturday at SRC Arena.
The Rebels are favored by 5 points when they take the court at UC Riverside today.
Taylor Johns’ name and game remain a secret outside of the Big West Conference. But it’s time to get to know him, so an NBA player he admires and resembles should sound familiar.
NCAA president Mark Emmert’s comments Wednesday that the organization is ready to rethink its ban on postseason events in Las Vegas has sparked a lot of conversation about the possibility of NCAA tournaments coming to town.
The frivolity of fans storming the court after a college basketball game took a dark turn Thursday when a Des Moines Register columnist sustained a broken leg.
Fred VanVleet scored 14 of his 17 points in the first half as Wichita State led the entire way in a 56-50 victory over UNLV on Wednesday night in a Mountain West-Missouri Valley Conference Challenge game at Koch Arena.
The lesson is this: That a week and a month and a few months from now, and perhaps into the madness of March, UNLV’s basketball team can take from a December game in south-central Kansas along the Arkansas River a definite truth about opposing an elite point guard.
The Rebels fought hard enough. They just weren’t near good enough, certainly not at a level needed to win in Koch Arena.
UNLV now apparently has an important ally in its efforts to bring NCAA-sanctioned events back to Las Vegas.
The Rebels are 7 1/2-point underdogs when they face Wichita State tonight at Koch Arena.
College basketball seasons develop in stages, from closed-door scrimmages to exhibitions to home and neutral matchups. To the most important games of all.
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