UNLV’s football team is hoping to avoid being banned from the postseason as well other penalties. The Rebels’ Academic Progress Rate may be low enough to incur sanctions by the NCAA, when it releases its report in June.
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Pittsburgh Steelers president Art Rooney II says the NFL has told the team it will not be docked a pick in this year’s draft for coach Mike Tomlin’s foray onto the field against Baltimore last November.
Michael Vick is switching green jerseys — and maybe trading his clipboard for a starting job.
Quarterback Caleb Herring participated in UNLV’s pro day on Thursday at Rebel Park. His best chance to make the NFL appears to be as an undrafted free agent.
Devonte Boyd and Trent Riley, who grayshirted last season, should make UNLV even deeper at wide receiver. The team’s top receiver, Devante Davis, has been a mentor to them.
The NFL and NCAA have made players’ safety a priority in recent years.
The competition for the UNLV quarterback job began Monday between Nick Sherry and Blake Decker as spring football practices opened.
A $60 million Texas high school stadium that got national attention for its grandeur and price tag will be shut down indefinitely 18 months after it opened.
Spring drills are just around the corner for many programs (UNLV begins Monday), about the time an NCAA playing rules oversight panel will vote on a proposal that states a defense can substitute within the first 10 seconds of the 40-second play clock, excluding the final two minutes of each half.
Scott Turner and Shane Steichen have remained close friends since they were quarterbacks at UNLV, and they still have 702 area codes for their cellphone numbers, taking a little piece of Las Vegas wherever they go. And that includes to the NFL as assistant coaches.
A Cleveland Browns offer for 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh in exchange for draft picks never happened, but it would have meant Harbaugh would have coached twice a year against his brother, John, who is at the helm of the Baltimore Ravens.
UNLV coach Bobby Hauck got his wish with the Rebels scheduled to face UNR on Nov. 29 at Sam Boyd Stadium to end the regular season.
Last week’s column on Bob St. Clair and the undefeated 1951 University of San Francisco football team — “The Best Team You Never Heard Of” according to the ESPN documentary showing this month — generated a lot of email and phone calls from readers who remembered St. Clair or that Dons team. Or had a father who did.
UNLV lost on the field when it played North Texas in the Heart of Dallas Bowl. The Rebels, though, won’t take as big a loss financially, or perhaps no loss at all.
Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter testified Tuesday that he was essentially paid to play via his scholarship. Colter characterized playing college football as a job and said schools make clear to incoming players that athletics are a higher priority than academics.
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