PROVO, Utah — On this side of the court, it is just the first of 16 conference games, just one defeat to an opponent that loses at home about as often as Tre’Von Willis thinks pass first, dribble second.
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January and February are shaping up to be busy months for outdoor buffs.
Listen closely. You can hear it. It has happened each time UNLV’s basketball team lost a game the last few years.
Editor’s note: Longtime local sports writer and columnist Ron Kantowski begins writing columns for the Las Vegas Review-Journal today. Kantowski’s columns will be published twice each week, on Sunday and Tuesday.
Some underdogs play dead and are riddled with fleas, and the NFL has seen more than a few of those this season. But the Green Bay Packers and quarterback Aaron Rodgers qualify as bloodhounds going into a wide-open playoff race.
They weren’t great odds for a fair fight. It was always 2-on-1. It was always two brothers ganging up on another. The matchup wasn’t always the same, though. It sort of depended on the day.
Apparently, it’s business as usual for Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. This is no time to sleep on the job, no time to close shop for the holidays and act as if nothing matters.
Call it what you want. A promise. A decision. A commitment.
Twenty-four hours is about all it took for Urban Meyer to come out of retirement. He fine-tuned his health, spent some quality time with family and was back to being Florida’s football coach just like that.
I suspect I will go to my grave firmly believing that lots of people like horse racing but don’t know about it yet. I guess you could call that being an eternal optimist.
A down-and-up year, that’s how 2009 has played out for Southern Nevada’s recreational shooters.
Mike Leach is one part of the cycle. He is an eccentric part, mind you. He isn’t going to win any awards for conventional methods, and that was true long before he banished a player with a concussion to an electrical closet or garage or media room or whatever secluded place Adam James supposedly spent several hours.
Maybe pulling Peyton Manning in the third quarter was the right thing to do for the Indianapolis Colts. It can be argued that maybe it was the correct move.
It might not be a unanimous vote, and a few other players certainly are worthy of consideration, but there is no doubt Peyton Manning is the Most Valuable Player in the NFL this season.
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