Sports Columns
Sooner or later, West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith will make a mistake, and it might even cost his team a game. But lately, he’s had a hotter hand than a guy struck by lightning, and we’re about to see if Smith can strike twice in Texas in two weeks.
Harvey Hyde, the coach of the 1984 UNLV football team that will be inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame on Friday night, used to be a bit of a pirate. In the colorful, “aye matey, arrrrgh ye comin’ along for the ride?” sense, not the pillaging and plundering sense, though the Rebels of his era certainly pillaged and plundered Cal State Fullerton and San Jose State and some of those other teams.
The YouTube clip lasts only 24 seconds but has nearly 6 million views. Nikki Johnson doesn’t just cross the goal line. She lowers a shoulder and blows up a defensive player named Devine Burton from Saskatchewan to Toronto and several other Canadian cities beyond.
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Mick Jagger sweeps into famous Las Vegas restaurant
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Nevada may expand cash-for-water rights programs for imperiled regions
What are those massive concrete towers across from Mandalay Bay?
CARTOON: My story and I’m sticking with it