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Clutch!

Basketball, Featured on February 3rd, 2012 1 Comment

The author of one of the most improbable, unlikely and indescribable shots in recent Nevada Wolf Pack basketball history had no idea what he had just accomplished.
“I didn’t see it go in, to be honest,” smiled Wolf Pack guard Deonte Burton. “I was ready to go back on defense. But then I heard the crowd [...]

Football Signing Day 2012

Featured, Football Recruiting on February 1st, 2012 1 Comment

Chris Ault can’t wait until the start of spring and summer football practices.
“The competition should be steep and fierce,” the Nevada Wolf Pack head coach said after announcing his 22-player football recruiting class on Wednesday at Legacy Hall. “We already had a nice nucleus coming in but these players we’ve brought in today are going [...]

On Point

Basketball, Featured on January 31st, 2012 4 Comments

t was the spring of 2010 and David Carter was getting a bit nervous.
“We kind of put all our eggs in one basket at point guard,” the Nevada Wolf Pack men’s basketball head coach said of his narrow recruiting focus two years ago. “We wanted Deonte (Burton). And if he had gone to UCLA I [...]

Coaching Search

Featured, Football on January 28th, 2012 11 Comments

After his second season as the Nevada Wolf Pack’s head football coach, a 31-year-old Chris Ault was suddenly one of the hottest young coaches in college football.
The Air Force Academy caught up with Ault on a recruiting trip in Los Angeles in December 1977 and talked with the Pack coach for over three hours about [...]

The Ghosts of Players Past

Basketball, Featured on January 26th, 2012 2 Comments

On some of those cold December nights, when the upper reaches of Lawlor Events Center is desolate, barren and lifeless, you swear to yourself you can almost see them sitting up near the rafters all by themselves and smiling.
“I tell my guys, ‘You are going to be haunted by the ghosts,’” said Nevada coach David [...]

Nevada Basketball Notebook

Basketball, Featured on January 25th, 2012 1 Comment

A smarter, leaner, more focused Malik Story is paying huge dividends for the Nevada Wolf Pack men‘s basketball team this season.
“My shot selection has been much better and I’m making sure I’m getting in a good rhythm this year,” Story said.

Player Spotlight: Brice Crook

Basketball, Featured on January 24th, 2012 3 Comments

There are times when Brice Crook feels like the latest top prize winner on a television reality show.
“I’m this team’s biggest fan,” said Crook of his Nevada Wolf Pack men’s basketball teammates. “I grew up watching all those great teams go to the NCAA tournament (2004-07).”
As far as Crook is concerned right now he’s the [...]

Midwinter Madness, Final Four & Championship: Tigers Smell Roses; Ducks Smell Revenge; and the Method Behind the Madness

Featured, Football on January 22nd, 2012 1 Comment

The First Midwinter Madness ended in glorious triumph yesterday when LSU met Oregon in the first Rose Bowl FPS National Championship Game.  Who won? First, we recap the Final Four match-ups…then you’ll have to scroll to the end to see who emerged as national champions…

Wolf Pack 74, Fresno St. 61

Basketball, Featured on January 22nd, 2012 1 Comment

How confident is the Nevada Wolf Pack men’s basketball team right now?
Well, Malik Story started doing jumping jacks in the middle of the court Saturday night with just under five minutes to play.
“I just wanted to get the crowd into it a little,” smiled the junior Wolf Pack guard.

Wolf Pack Basketball Notebook

Basketball, Featured on January 20th, 2012 No Comments

The Nevada Wolf Pack men’s basketball team promises not to overlook the Fresno State Bulldogs literally and figuratively.
“They are still a very dangerous team,” senior forward Olek Czyz said of the Bulldogs. “It’s a WAC game and we want to win the WAC.”