I read with interest the news that the Nevada Test Site is more contaminated than previously believed. Hundreds of atomic blasts have turned the soil and groundwater into a radioactive mess.
UNLV Football
Jim Rogers has the right idea. If you want to be any good in today’s Bowl Championship Series landscape of college football, you buy the chicken first and then hope it can produce the golden egg.
Mike Sanford insisted he wasn’t frustrated or bitter, that he simply wanted to set the record straight for the good of UNLV football.
Now that coach Mike Sanford’s status has been determined, UNLV faces a decision that will affect its football program for many years.
The situation was clear entering this season: Mike Sanford needed to go at least 6-6 and take UNLV to a bowl game or he was out as the Rebels’ football coach.
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — Doesn’t matter whether it’s UNR, Texas Christian or Air Force, if the opponent has a quality running attack, UNLV is in trouble.
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — Defense has kept Air Force in every football game this season, but the Falcons are still defined by their triple option.
UNLV knew it was getting a highly touted football player when it signed quarterback Caleb Herring in February.
The outcome was downright ugly the last time the UNLV football team ran into a top-notch defense: a 41-0 rout at the hands of Texas Christian on Oct. 31.
Most football coaches act as if point spreads don’t exist, but Utah’s Kyle Whittingham acknowledged being a big underdog Saturday at Texas Christian got his players’ attention.
Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of a feature in which the Las Vegas Review-Journal asks 20 questions of a UNLV football player. Today’s Q&A is with tight end Kyle Watkins, a sophomore from Cactus Shadows High School in Cave Creek, Ariz., and Scottsdale (Ariz.) Community College.
Survival mode doesn’t know opponents. It doesn’t care about records, assess skill, wonder how and why those crouching opposite it arrived at this moment.
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