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Power, speed await Mountain Ridge

Mountain Ridge Little League has a challenge ahead of them on Sunday when they play the team from Chicago.

NBA’s Commissioner Silver is kind, but not weak

It’s one thing to construct a Lamborghini one washer and screw at a time. It’s another to maintain and even improve its performance. Adam Silver is now the guy entrusted with the latter.

Centennial softball not ready for sun to set

Mike Livreri owns the sort of problem most coaches desire and yet never realize, the idea that his Centennial High softball team has won so much, has reached so many levels of success, has produced a program all others chase locally each spring, discovering ways to motivate his players has become a difficult task.

Majoring in eligibility

The Academic Progress Rate, the measure by which the NCAA tracks eligibility and retention rates of student-athletes, isn’t as straightforward a system as some would believe. It’s like most things in life: Money might be the root of all evil, but it sure does benefit those with the fattest wallets.

With each K, Kristina strikes blow against Olivia’s cancer

She needed a throwing partner. That’s where the story begins. On a softball field, near the end of intramural workouts in February 2013, two freshmen at Valley High joined by the uncomplicated act of warming up.

Fixing UNLV will take Rice all summer

There was about a minute remaining in UNLV’s basketball game against San Diego State on Friday evening when Aztecs fans began a popular chant for teams about to win on another’s court.

Greatest play ever shows Cunningham ahead of his time

Randall Cunningham is humbled. When he thinks back, he sees only a big deficit on the scoreboard, 80,000 lunatics screaming at him and Bruce Smith on a mission to rip his head off.

Rebels’ Deville Smith delivers ‘spark’

Deville Smith took full advantage of just his fourth start on Wednesday. He will get a fifth at first-place San Diego State on Saturday. He is sure to remain in the lineup for the foreseeable future.

Reinhardt ditches leg warmers, shows off hot hand

I’m not so sure it’s this simple, but for all the weirdness of this college basketball season, it just might be: My esteemed colleague, fellow Review-Journal columnist Ron Kantowski, viewed Katin Reinhardt’s recent shooting slump in the most basic of terms.