Sports Columns
Perfection is not out of the question. In fact, it’s a proposition bet, and one Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers can win.
A final score flashed from Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Saturday night, and another unbeaten had fallen in college football, and that once-a-week question was being asked inside the Sam Boyd Stadium press box.
Some football coaches would feel insulted to be labeled a lunatic or a nutcase. Louisiana State’s Les Miles is different. Instead of trying to fit in with a conservative fraternity, he strives to stand out.
Before he began winning football games and influencing lives as a football coach at Canyon Springs High School, Hernandez James “Hunkie” Cooper was arguably the best all-around football player in UNLV history. Cooper was given his first name in memory of the best friend of his father. His father and the man Cooper only knows as “Hernandez” made a pact that should one of them be killed in the Vietnam War, the survivor would name a son in memory of the other.
