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Ed Graney is a sports columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covering a variety of topics and the Las Vegas sports scene.
egraney@reviewjournal.com … @edgraney on Twitter. 702-383-4618
It was late 2007 and then-Cal High football coach Tony Sanchez was searching for a nonleague opponent to play the following season.
The funniest sight, and there were plenty given how awful UNLV’s football team was Saturday, might have been the two policemen sitting atop horses in the west end zone at game’s end, apparently guarding against anyone trying to tear down the goal post.
In the early 1900s, there was no Bowl Championship Series or TV money to covet, though it was a time when leaders spoke about men not standing idly by and allowing enemies to dominate the world, so maybe someone knew what was on the horizon for college football.
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