It would be an easy assumption to make that any prep basketball team featuring a frontcourt with two McDonald’s All-Americans might breeze through its opposition with little resistance. Sometimes, it’s unwise to assume.
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UNLV’s basketball team will awake Wednesday, head to the airport and board a flight for New York, where the Rebels will meet Stanford in a Coaches vs. Cancer Classic game Friday night at Barclays Center.
Lunde said he grew complacent about playing on the PGA Tour and had to work his way back through the Web.com tour. He’s playing this week’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open on a sponsor’s exemption and is 6-under under two rounds.
It’s a sad but obvious truth: Many fans love their favorite team and its star athletes so much that they find it easy to rationalize what are otherwise despicable or deceitful acts as a mere miscalculation of reasoning.
When you entered the damp and dingy crypt that was the home clubhouse at Qualcomm Stadium, Tony Gwynn’s locker was in the right-hand corner.
Look at a map of the United States. On it, you will find few places Michael Gaughan hasn’t visited to witness a rodeo. The man knows more about small towns than Rand McNally.
Brooks Koepka must have one of those United Nations passports, filled with a maze of colorful stamps from faraway lands seen only in history books and travel brochures.
Nolan Kohorst is not for dramatics, which is all the more ironic when you consider the spot he holds on a football team. But his is a simple, candid study of how many college coaches might view a kicker when deciding whether to offer a scholarship.
From tragedy and terror and incomprehensible grief, came this bit of positive news: “The best way of dealing with this is to get out on the streets to show solidarity with the people in Boston, to celebrate a fantastic marathon and send out a very clear message to those responsible we won’t be cowed by this kind of behavior.”
Can all the demons be exorcised in three minutes, 43 seconds? Can all the nights when UNLV’s basketball team wasn’t tough or resilient enough disappear in that short amount of time? For now, for today, definitely.
UNLV needs to match No. 19 Illinois at the guard spot to have any chance today at the United Center, which means Oscar Bellfield needs to play well, which is hardly a given.
