New Mexico didn’t need guard Kendall Williams to play great to beat UNLV on Wednesday night. The Lobos just needed him to play like a senior and lead the team.
Basketball
Kendall Williams made four 3-pointers and scored 29 points as New Mexico led the entire way en route to a 68-56 victory over UNLV in a Mountain West mismatch Wednesday night.
Darryl Gaynor had a huge gash on the inside of his mouth, and his upper lip looked like a collagen injection gone horribly wrong.
A viral video of a special needs high school basketball team manager sinking a handful of three-pointers for his basketball team last weekend not only caught the eyes of many on the internet, but also those of the Philadelphia 76ers.
No fighting words, even if unintentional, were fired from the New Mexico side this time. And on the UNLV side, junior guard Bryce Dejean-Jones made sure to say all the right things.
The NFL season has been over for two weeks, but bettors still can get their fix at Las Vegas sports books.
John Wall soared over his mascot, and the East stomped on the West in the slam dunk contest.
A bear of a man, Stew Morrill is not big on reminiscing or getting sentimental. At least, that was the case Friday, when he shrugged off the idea of hitting a coaching milestone.
Pierre Jackson finally made it to New Orleans. But his stay figures to be a brief one.
David Stern is going from the NBA commissioner’s office to the Hall of Fame. And Spencer Haywood of Las Vegas, who fought the NBA’s anti-trust rules, has been named a finalist.
Even before he shoved a loud-mouthed, obnoxious fan, Marcus Smart made a bigger mistake. He returned to Oklahoma State when he would have been a top-five pick, and possibly the No. 1 pick, in last summer’s NBA Draft.
The talent keeps coming for UNLV basketball, keeps believing in the vision Dave Rice has created, keeps talking about a style of play that if the Rebels ever get around to implementing, just might produce the sort of success a third-year coaching staff insists is attainable.
Because I am of the opinion that most people take sports way too seriously, I am happy there are the Washington Generals, and that on their official website there is a photo of a chalkboard depicting the times they have lost to the Harlem Globetrotters.
Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart is suspended 3 games for pushing Texas Tech fan.
The plan was simple for Wyoming on Saturday night: Don’t suffer an early knockout by UNLV.
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