The Rebels are heading into their first bowl game in 13 years as 6.5-point underdogs. Their opponent’s campus is a mere 43 miles from the stadium where the game will be played. But here are two reasons they can win the Heart of Dallas Bowl.
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Dealey Plaza is one of those places that each time you visit, you learn something new or realize you missed an important exhibit on a previous stop.
A lot of football bettors figure to be asleep in a dark room when senior quarterback Caleb Herring leads UNLV into the national spotlight today. A traditionally big day of bowl games is not what it used to mean for the sports books.
Group photos and news conferences leading up to Wednesday’s game were the order of the day as UNLV prepares to play North Texas in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.
A quick look at the national media buzz surrounding the Heart of Dallas Bowl reveals … very little buzz, but don’t let that fool you.
UNLV junior wide receiver Devante Davis is preoccupied with the Heart of Dallas Bowl for now, but soon he will decide whether to turn pro a year early.
Three hours, 37 minutes. That’s how far it is from the Cotton Bowl to North Shore High in Houston, from where some key UNLV football players will compete in the program’s first bowl game since 2000 on Wednesday to where they played for a prep program led by one of the winningest coaches in Texas history.
The indications North Texas would play much better defense began occurring last year. but to think before the season the Mean Green would end their nine-year bowl drought because of defense would be the same as believing Dallas’ confusing street grid was well-planned.
Things have changed quickly for Cimarron-Memorial’s football team. Its game plan will not.
Root for Alabama to win a third straight national title in football? Please, let’s just get it done and move on to 2014 when Nick Saban still will be crabby but the Bowl Championship Series will be no more.
The Atlanta Falcons waived Brian Banks, the linebacker who was attempting to make a late start to his NFL career after spending five years in prison on a conviction that was later overturned.
Uncle Si of “Duck Dynasty” is 65 and struggles staying on task, so he often takes midday naps and plays with the security equipment around the family business. I officially am nominating him as special teams coach for UNLV’s football team.
BALTIMORE — Jonathan Ogden spent his entire 12-year career with the Baltimore Ravens, played in 11 Pro Bowls, won a Super Bowl ring and earned a Hall of Fame berth.
The brother of Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick has put a bounty on Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper after a video surfaced of Cooper using a racial slur at a Kenny Chesney concert.
A new name is on the list of Matt Ryan’s top receiving targets. It’s Steven Jackson.
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