As you can already tell from the title of this column, ‘Round the Rim is a huge fan of what many have labeled as the “Charge Circle” coming to college basketball next season.  It seems like it has taken forever for this extremely important, game changing dotted arc to arrive in the NCAA ranks, and [...]

With 10 returning players on his team next season, Nevada head coach David Carter knows the key to recruiting this year is not finding immediate impact players.  He did that last year by adding players like Deontè Burton, the 2010-11 WAC Freshman of the Year, plus transfers in Olek Czyz and Malik Story and a [...]

With the NFL Draft just a week away and Nevada likely to have at least 3 players drafted, you might forgive pundits if they were to say the Wolf Pack will be in rebuilding mode next season. But take one look at Nevada’s loaded receiving corps, with it’s mix of veteran returning starters, talented new [...]

The last time there was Division I football at Mackay Stadium, any ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) doctors in attendance had to be kicking themselves for not bringing cards.  Between the Fortress of Solitude-like temperatures and the collective overuse of the superior laryngeal nerve of 30,000 live humans, the mass patient intake opportunity was huge.  [...]

While the late signing period is the major story at most college basketball programs right now, it is also the time where coaches typically switch jobs.  As Nevada is still mining out a handful of 2011 and 2012 prospects to recruit, one of their own is on the move.  Dennis Gates, a long-time assistant in [...]

With Nevada’s annual Silver and Blue game on tap this weekend, plus the late signing period for Nevada basketball on the doorstep Spring is most definitely in the air.  The competition at Wolf Pack Park has been intense, with players at numerous positions all trying to make an impression on Chris Ault and his staff, [...]

As I write this, Bryan Stow, a 42-year-old paramedic from Santa Cruz is blissfully unaware that his allotted fifteen minutes have begun to run.  They waste away while he lies comatose, six hours from home, in a hospital near Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.  He deserved this, of course, strictly because his New Era cap [...]

While recruiting has long been front and center for college basketball programs around the country, there is another part of the game which can cause additions and subtractions to a roster.  That is the transfer process, where student-athletes with eligibility still left go from one D1 school to another D1 school. Despite the fact that [...]

During the 2009-10 college basketball season, Nevada had about as much depth as a push pin.  It was an off-season of dramatic change, with multiple staff and roster changes.  David Carter’s first club, paced by future NBA Draft selections Luke Babbitt and Armon Johnson, played through the limited bodies to still lead Nevada to the NIT.  [...]

College athletics, especially Football and Men’s Basketball, is big business. That’s news to no one. Coaches often earn many millions of dollars per year. World class arenas and stadiums are constructed.  Doctors, trainers, tutors and administrators by the thousands make lucrative salaries that are dependent on the revenue generated by young men playing games. So [...]