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Three NFL players named in police report, not charged

Three NFL players are named in a police report involving a woman who passed out in a hotel and later woke up in a hospital not knowing how she got there, though no one has been charged with a crime, authorities said Thursday.

Postseason ban takes air out of UNLV football

It took more than a decade for the UNLV football program to exhibit some semblance of respectability. It took one news conference Thursday to severely damage all that positive energy.

Johnny Testtaker

There are a whole lot of questions about quarterback prospect Johnny Manziel entering May’s NFL draft. His intelligence probably shouldn’t be one of them.

UNLV ends spring with questions, answers

UNLV plays its spring football game tonight, knowing more about its team. The Rebels, though, still have unanswered questions heading into the summer.

Las Vegas Bowl chief to leave for UFC

Las Vegas Bowl executive director Dan Hanneke is stepping down to take a job with the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Emmert: Unionization “grossly inappropriate”

The NCAA president called an effort to unionize players a “grossly inappropriate” way to solve problems in college sports while insisting the association has plans to change the school-athlete relationship.

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Ogden remains humbled by his football immortality

When he was giving his induction speech at the Pro Football Hall of Fame last August, Jonathan Ogden kept coming back to how special a life he has lived.

Adonis Smith determined to break through

UNLV running back Adonis Smith, a Northwestern transfer, is working to bounce back from a disappointing season. He is showing the signs this spring of doing just that.

UNLV hopes to continue to corner the market

UNLV starting cornerbacks Tajh Hasson and Kenneth Penny are coming off promising seasons. They are expected to provide the Rebels with one of the top unit on the football team.

 
College athletes can unionize, federal agency rules

In a stunning ruling that could revolutionize college sports, a federal agency said Wednesday that football players at Northwestern University can create the nation’s first union of college athletes.

PATs from 20-yard line to be tested in NFL preseason

A handful of rule approvals came out of the NFL owners meeting Wednesday including experimentation with extra-point kicks from the 20-yard line for two weeks in the preseason, but implementing longer PATs for the regular season was tabled.

UNLV needs to be transparent about athletes’ grade problems

When explaining publicly its football program’s academic predicament UNLV needs to be forthright and honest and there should be no shortage of bodies explaining why and how this happened.

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