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The Recruit
The race for Findlay Prep basketball star Anthony Bennett is on—and UNLV aims to win it
April 26th, 2012
If there’s one thing guaranteed to make high school basketball star Anthony Bennett smile, it’s the thought that his exhausting college recruiting process will soon end. Read more »
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Keeping Their Heads in the Game
April 12th, 2012
As a member of UNLV’s training staff since 1984 and director of athletic training since 1999, Kyle Wilson has seen enough to know that “killing the head” is serious business—and that prevention and quick diagnosis of concussions are among the most important issues in sports medicine today. Wilson and his staff now perform cognitive and balance tests on UNLV’s nearly 500 student-athletes before each team’s season so that if one of them suffers a head injury, trainers can determine the severity of it. Read more »
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Coaches Answer Social Call
BeamingBohemian.com
March 8th, 2012
College athletic coaches have different ways of handling their players’ social-media activity. Read more »
Events
Tackling a Larger Audience
January 26th, 2012
The Lingerie Football League is putting on the moves this year in an attempt to gain greater exposure in Las Vegas and around the world. Lingerie Bowl IX will kick off at the Orleans Arena at 1 p.m. Feb. 5, more than two hours before the Super Bowl, and be televised on MTV2. Read more »
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High Court Appeal
January 19th, 2012
Of all the happenings that bring Las Vegas national attention, a high school basketball game would seem to be one of the unlikeliest. Yet since last season’s thriller, this year’s showdown between Findlay Prep and Bishop Gorman has been highly anticipated by prep sports pundits across the country. Last January’s matchup between the teams produced the greatest high school basketball game in Nevada’s history, when Findlay Prep won 89-86 on a last-second 3-pointer in double overtime. Read more »
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Fighting Spirit
January 5th, 2012
UFC champions Junior dos Santos and Dominick Cruz, heavyweight Travis Browne and Las Vegas fighters Frank Mir and Roy Nelson spent the afternoon of Dec. 27 hanging out with nearly a dozen local youngsters who are battling cancer. The fighters and kids shared lunch in the Ultimate Fighter gym before spending a little time hitting heavy bags and learning a few MMA techniques—although the majority of the afternoon saw dos Santos and Browne on the constant defensive as the energetic group of young attackers proved to be worthy opponents. Read more »
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To Run With the Pac
UNLV should dream big and do everything it can to get into the Pac-12 Conference. Here’s why.
January 5th, 2012
In the hallowed tradition of unrealistic New Year’s resolutions, I am proposing the following gem for UNLV: Win admission into the Pac-12 Conference. In fact, take a friend, or even an enemy along with you—say, that biggest-little-city school up north that calls itself simply “Nevada,” or that freshly minted beast of the Big East, San Diego State. Call it the Pac-14. Read more »
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December 15th, 2011
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Sports Fans, Be Careful What You Wish For
For Las Vegans dreaming of a big-time sports franchise, a cautionary tale from Cleveland
December 15th, 2011
Is it truly better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all? When it comes to your hometown sports team, I’m not so sure. Many Las Vegans have long held out hope for a big-league sports franchise, and as a transplant to the Valley, I probably ought to hop on that bandwagon. But my status as a lifelong fan of Cleveland’s teams gives me the duty to issue a warning: Where I come from, sports fans lead lives of quiet desperation. Read more »
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Bowled Over
December 15th, 2011
In the past decade, though, the game—now dubbed the Maaco Bowl Las Vegas—has grown significantly, with six straight sellouts, including a state-record crowd of 44,615 for the 2006 matchup between BYU and Oregon. That’s in large part a tribute to the game’s more recent affiliations with the Pac-12 and a surging Mountain West Conference. A television deal with ESPN, with all the chatter that implies, hasn’t hurt, either. Read more »
