Sports Columns
It’s probably premature to bury Ben Howland, the UCLA basketball coach with the soiled image and uncertain future. He suddenly is under siege, with the media wolves howling at his door.
They can tweet all the expletives they want, and they can set world-record times for getting from a morgue of a locker room to a morgue of a bus, and they can talk about being disappointed until every flake of snow has melted atop the Rockies, but UNLV’s basketball team has only itself to blame for its Mountain West Conference standing today.
Boise State is one of those basketball tonics that can cure the common cold, or in the case of UNLV, a midseason week to forget. The Broncos on the road are almost always a willing participant in a home team’s desire to right its recent wrongs.