Hometown fans at Qualcomm Stadium are, by now, used to the boisterous rants of the visiting fans who frequently outnumber them.  They say that the Raiders are guaranteed nine home games every year: eight in Oakland, one in San Diego.  While Charger fans are numb to the antics of Darth Raider and that bald guy [...]

This edition of Cannon Fodder is the result of two unfortunate things. The first is that I have a lot of divergent thoughts rolling around in my head, but not enough on any one topic to justify a full-length treatment. So I’ve decided to scrap together these leftovers to make a sort of “Fremont Casserole.”.  [...]

As we’ve chronicled since the end of the most recent hoops season, Nevada, which has yet to add a player to the roster while seeing three players depart, will be adding some talent this summer.  Even though the late signing period has come and gone, a handful of prospects the Wolf Pack staff have been [...]

Hechuan, China – The REACH USA basketball team lost in its first exhibition game 77-75 to Atletas of Lithuania on a trip to China that is based on religious and educational experiences for 16 members of NCAA Division 1 basketball teams, including Los Angeles (Calif.) natives Malik Story and Devonte Elliott of the Nevada Wolf [...]

With ten young players returning, including senior big man and potential WAC Player of the Year candidate Dario Hunt, Nevada is looking to build some depth in their program.  They have three open scholarships and plenty of recruiting targets, however, with the end of the late signing period almost here and an upcoming dead period [...]

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 [...]