The Huskies have won at least 11 games the past five seasons under three coaches and three quarterbacks. As UNLV prepares to open its season at Northern Illinois at 4:30 p.m. PDT Saturday under yet another regime, the Rebels could do worse than model what’s taken place in DeKalb, Ill.
Football
Seven months after winning his fourth Super Bowl, Tom Brady prevailed in another big game with the clock winding down. Again, his opponent was second-guessed and properly portrayed as idiotic.
Quarterback Travis Wilson was 24-of-33 for 208 yards and added 53 yards and a touchdown on the ground to lead Utah to a 24-17 victory over Michigan in the season opener for both teams Thursday in Salt Lake City.
A man found in possession of O.J. Simpson’s Heisman Trophy, which disappeared from the University of Southern California in 1994, has been charged with receiving stolen property, Los Angeles prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Five Rutgers University football players were suspended from the team after being arrested on Thursday, with four accused of assault and one charged in a pair of home invasions, New Jersey authorities said.
The hype has been all about Jim Harbaugh making his debut as Michigan coach in today’s college football season opener at Utah (5:30 p.m., FS1 (329). But Las Vegas wise guys don’t believe the hype.
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game suspension was nullified by U.S. District Court Judge Richard M. Berman, clearing Brady to get back to football and his starting job with the defending Super Bowl champions.
Confidence is something UNLV quarterback Blake Decker has never lacked.
If there’s anything most Las Vegas sports fans can agree upon, it’s that Sam Boyd Stadium and Cashman Field stink, and that hopefully there will be places to park at the new hockey arena.
Big Vince Wilfork stole the show on Tuesday night’s episode of “Hard Knocks” on HBO.
When he took his final breath at 4 a.m. on June 13, Malachi Briggs was 7 years old and no longer able to fight the cancer that had ravaged his body. He was at home in Las Vegas, in hospice care, his tumors inoperable and his loving spirit preparing to pass to a peaceful place without pain and catheters.
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, addressing a charity function Tuesday night at Gillette Stadium, calls Deflategate the “most overblown story in recent NFL history.”
Sony Pictures Entertainment executives altered the script of its forthcoming movie “Concussion,” about football-related brain trauma, to avoid antagonizing the National Football League, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Lawrence Phillips, a former first-round NFL running back, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his cellmate at a California prison.
UNLV head coach Tony Sanchez, QB Blake Decker and DB Peni Vea met with the media on Tuesday, and they’re all very excited about the upcoming season.