The two-day Breeders’ Cup on Oct. 30 and 31 is a week away. If you don’t have tickets to sold-out Keeneland, and remember there is no walk-up this year, then Las Vegas is your next best place to enjoy it.
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When it comes to selling the idea that getting to the NBA would be best accomplished at a particular college, UNLV’s coaching staff ranks among the finest nationally in delivering such a message. Dave Rice and his assistants own the most important of factors in such recruiting wars: tangible evidence.
Heat, rain and low-hung clouds thick enough to make deer hunting little better than futile.
With the Professional Bull Riders in town to decide their championship at the Thomas & Mack Center, I asked J.B. Mauney, one of the best, how his sport would be different if a guy was required to ride for seven seconds, or for nine, or for some other arbitrary length of time, instead of for eight seconds.
You might have seen the percentages for the last play of Saturday’s Michigan State-Michigan college football game. According to ESPN Stats, State’s win probability before the ill-fated punt attempt by the Maize and Blue with 10 seconds left was 0.2 percent.
Every bookmaker in Las Vegas showed up for work Sunday morning praying for underdogs and rooting against Tom Brady. That’s basically the case every week, but it was especially true this time.
When it comes to UNLV’s nonrevenue sports, men’s soccer just might be my favorite. Like most of the so-called Olympic sports, the soccer team operates on a shoestring budget. It also operates with local kids — of the 25 players on the roster, 13 are from the Las Vegas area and 15 are Nevadans.
Before his father succeeded Randall Cunningham as UNLV’s starting quarterback, Steve Stallworth starred at Yuma High, the big high school in Yuma.
UNLV has arguably its deepest level of skill since Rice was hired as coach in 2011, and there had been some whispers over the summer that he might consider a platoon system if enough good players emerged from preseason drills.
A so-called perfect world does not exist in the NFL. If everything is going right, you can bet something is about to go wrong. And everything is going right for Andy Dalton and the Cincinnati Bengals.