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You find the evidence on Page 81 of the UNLV football media guide, where tentative nonconference schedules for the Rebels are listed through 2017. There are several TBAs. If he has enough success this season to remain UNLV’s coach, Bobby Hauck has plans for them.
Savon Goodman is responsible for his own actions, an adult at 19 and every bit capable of knowing right from wrong. That the UNLV player will miss the coming season due to his impending arraignment on first-degree felony charges of burglary and grand larceny and a misdemeanor charge of conspiracy to commit burglary falls directly at his high-tops.
The character first appeared as a giant head made from smoke and fire, demanding the little girl and her friends kill the Wicked Witch and bring her broomstick to him in return for granting their wishes.
I absolutely believe that within the next 80 or so years, perhaps around the time Bobby Hauck’s great-great-great grandson is arm wrestling elks in Montana, UNLV will navigate through a schedule unscathed. Here’s why it could happen this season.
The following is not meant to offer an ounce of sympathy toward Alex Rodriguez, who safely has placed himself on that infamous list of athletes having made the most spectacular falls from grace in sports history.
Torn ACL. Dislocated ankle. Broken fibula. Torn MCL. Fractured hip. Pectoral tear. Torn triceps. Torn PCL. Knee strain. Torn Achilles. Torn hamstring. And that’s just off a cursory glance at the NFL’s injury report for this preseason.
It’s not about the rule, about the NBA disallowing those players at its three-day rookie transition program from having guests in their hotel room. It’s more about this for Shabazz Muhammad: perception.
Tim Hauck is 46 and 2½ years younger than his brother, Bobby, but he arrives at UNLV with the sort of experience and clout that immediately earns the respect of those players he will now instruct as the team’s defensive coordinator. On paper, it’s not a good hire. It’s a terrific one.
If you click on the website, you immediately hear the theme song from “Rocky IV,” one that talks about there being no easy way out, no shortcut home, that some things are worth fighting for, that giving in can’t be wrong.
Riley Cooper insists that he is sorry, that he is disgusted by his own words, that he is embarrassed and ashamed beyond belief.
When cars carrying youth sports standouts of Las Vegas pass the state line near Primm, those who compete so well here often are swallowed by the massive numbers that define the playing fields of Southern California. But there is a group that intends on changing that over the next 10 days and, more importantly, just might have the skill to do so.
Fiscally speaking, something those at UNLV should always be cognizant of in a responsible manner, one dollar spent in pursuing anyone other than two local names to replace Jim Livengood would be colossal waste.
The Las Vegas 51s are tied for first place in the Pacific Southern Division, the latest they have been atop the standings since 2002. At a level at which the main objective is to prepare players for the final and toughest jump to reach a major league clubhouse, how important is winning in the scheme of such a pursuit?
It wasn’t just the coaches and players competing for a national championship. It wasn’t just the 70,000 college basketball fans inside Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis that 2010 evening.
His still is an imposing figure, towering on this particular day over those NBA players sitting on chairs and listening to his every word.
