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Hauck: Rebels ‘know they can win’

UNLV football coach Bobby Hauck sees a much different Rebel team than when he took over five years ago. “They know they can win now … You learn a lot through adversity,” he says.

Mayweather has only one sensible option come September: Maidana

A confession: I don’t want to see it as badly as I do Manny Pacquiao pummel Adrien Broner, but time will pass, and September will arrive, and if that is indeed when Floyd Mayweather Jr. continues his six-fight contract with Showtime, the only opponent worth a pay-per-view receipt again is Marcos Maidana.

Huskies stun No. 1 Florida

This is the new normal. The way college basketball will look more often than not each March.

Pressure eventually breaks UNLV against San Diego State

It’s OK to accelerate tempo in basketball when you’re the one creating pace. UNLV wasn’t Wednesday night. For it, the Rebels eventually cracked under pressure.

Frigid night in Colorado leaves UNLV even colder

If you snapped a picture outside, it would have been one of ice. Of snow. Of slush. Of the sort of air that burns your lungs with each inhale. Of the biting cold Robert Frost wrote about so brilliantly.

Game film serves purpose in rodeo, too

Team ropers at the National Finals Rodeo embrace the technological side of sport as much as anyone, relying on wives and girlfriends to use iPads and video cameras during practice runs while taping how a cowboy’s horse might begin a run and how the steer its chasing reacts.

Right decision on FSU’s Winston, wrong cast of buffoons

There couldn’t be official charges, couldn’t be an arrest, couldn’t be a trial, couldn’t be any resolution to the Jameis Winston sexual assault investigation other than what was decided Thursday.

Exhibitions reveal several areas Rebels need to improve

I was looking for Lewis Skolnick at one guard spot and Dudley “Booger” Dawson at small forward. But it wasn’t Adams College that UNLV’s basketball team welcomed Tuesday night. It was Adams State. The Rebels might have preferred a group of nerdy Tri-Lambs.