Ed Graney
Ed Graney is a sports columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covering a variety of topics and the Las Vegas sports scene.
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Quintrell Thomas had logged several minutes of basketball Tuesday evening when he raised his hand toward the UNLV bench. He was gassed and needed a break.
Tim Chambers didn’t feel comfortable commenting and left it at that. It’s the reaction you might expect when from a distance you watch a baseball program you built from dust into a national champion turned into one now facing allegations of rules violations and mistreatment of players by a new coaching staff, of allegedly charging kids for mandatory conditioning programs and food while allegedly promoting a culture of drugs and alcohol within locker room walls.
I liked the fake punt down 21-6 late in the second quarter from the 47-yard line of Texas Christian. I like trickery on Halloween Eve.
Mike and Linda Babin named Shriners Hospitals as owner and beneficiary of a $1.8 million life insurance policy collectable upon their deaths for the care they provided to their son Michael, who was burned on more than 85 percent of his body.
Maybe this is it. Or almost it. Maybe in the world of UNLV basketball, there is some truth to that quote about timing.
That with patience, the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable becomes available, the unattainable becomes, yeah, you guessed it, attainable.
Social networks don’t define our lives anymore. They run them. That reality has placed the UNLV football career of junior wide receiver Phillip Payne in a tenuous position, the reported result of his Twitter account producing negative comments about a first-year coaching staff led by Bobby Hauck.
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