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 [...]

The madness that is March is almost over.  As those in Reno likely can tell by the weather alone, spring is in the air and we are nearing the calendar period for college sports that I like to call “the doldrums”. That is the time of the year between the end of the latest NCAA [...]

I had an epiphany on Monday: I finally realized why I allow Colin Cowherd to torture my eardrums on ESPN Radio every morning.  It’s certainly not because I subscribe to this elitist/absolutist view of the world of sports.  It’s because every once in awhile, The Herd yields one shining moment of clarity in which a [...]

The best season for Nevada Wolf Pack (22-11) women’s basketball team ended on Sunday night.  Playing at home in the second round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament, Nevada took on a prestigious USC (21-12) program that was looking to make a strong postseason run after missing out on a trip to the NCAA Tournament.  [...]

The Nevada Wolf Pack (22-11) women’s basketball team returned home where they were overmatched against the USC Trojans (21-12) and suffered a heartbreaking season ending defeat, 78-59, at the Lawlor Center on Sunday afternoon. Nevada was looking to continue their historic season after achieving the first 20-win season in school history to go along with [...]

For mid-major programs, the NCAA Tournament can be like the sweetest cream you’ve ever tasted.  Just ask programs like Morehead State, a No. 13 seed who knocked off in-state power Louisville on Thursday, or Butler, who could be poised to make another long March run after a physical opening round win over Old Dominion.  However, [...]