A colleague was bragging the other day about her NCAA Tournament bracket. She was closing in on first place and purposefully inquired where my entry sat among more than 60, knowing full well it had exploded like a cargo ship in Halifax Harbour once Wake Forest decided that rolling over and beginning its offseason early was more enticing than winning a lousy game or two.
Billy Packer …
The $6 million Dubai World Cup, the world’s richest race, highlights a mind-boggling $21 million card Saturday at Nad Al Sheba in Dubai, but 3-year-olds prepping for the Kentucky Derby will merit plenty of attention this weekend, too.
Hunters who have been waiting anxiously for Nevada’s big-game tag application process to begin no longer have to wait. As of Friday, the quest for coveted 2009 big-game tags officially began. The application deadline is April 20, so don’t procrastinate.
Chalk defines teams that have advanced to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16, but it has nothing to do with how well the leading players might translate in the NBA.
Pete Manarino coached for decades in the mecca of youth softball. He witnessed the skill, watched it be nurtured, lost track of the number of travel teams at, oh, tons.
The Wranglers today are like a home ready to be shown to interested buyers, but not yet listed.
Paul Howard wants you to know his betting tickets are for sale. The ones with Siena and Texas A&M and Virginia Commonwealth winning the NCAA Tournament.
A quote that football coach Bill Parcells likes to use is, “You are what your record says you are.” In that case, the record of Southern California-based horses prepping for the Kentucky Derby shows they are a lot better than first thought.
When order has been restored and all the nonmajor basketball programs are sent home from the NCAA Tournament — or, in the case of this year’s Cinderella-lacking bracket, all the below-average-to-awful Big Ten teams and Arizona — the Final Four will be staged in Detroit.
What would you think if a stranger walked into your outdoor club meeting and asked the attendees to reveal their favorite hunting and fishing spots? What if he rolled out Nevada topographical maps and handed you and your friends a highlighter?
Exclusivity is an upsetting trend to everyone except perhaps Jim Nantz. It is everything college football has become and everything we once could count on the NCAA Tournament avoiding.
UNLV has a men’s basketball team today preparing not for the NCAA Tournament but rather a first-round National Invitation Tournament matchup at Kentucky for one reason.
Craig Thompson and his Mountain West Conference brethren stand on the other side of the fence today, from seeking an objective process in football to hoping a subjective one in basketball falls in their direction.
