The Nevada Wolf Pack’s defense made its presence known Saturday afternoon at Mackay Stadium.

“Yeah, it’s about time,” smiled defensive tackle Willie Faataualofa.
Faataualofa and the rest of the Pack defense had a lot to smile about after the 91-play scrimmage. The defense surrendered just two one-yard touchdown runs on the 16 drives and held the offense to 358 yards. That was in direct contrast to Tuesday’s scrimmage when the offense scored seven touchdowns and kicked two field goals in 15 drives (83 plays) and picked up 612 yards. Read more »

FOX Sports periodically has team reports for football and basketball. They recently updated the Nevada football report. It’s worth a read.

Nevada begins its final season in the Western Athletic Conference as one of the league’s favorites. The Wolf Pack was picked a very close third behind fellow short-timers Hawaii and Fresno State by the conference’s coaches and media. All three programs are leaving for the Mountain West in 2012.

“I have no interest in talking about the Mountain West Conference in this meeting. My attention and focus is on the WAC,” Ault said at his final WAC football preview.

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Silver and Blue Sports had a chance to catch up with former Nevada quarterback great Colin Kaepernick after one of his most recent workouts in the Bay Area this past Friday.  The future San Francisco 49er talked about getting prepared for his first NFL season, his path to the 49ers organization, plus some of the intangibles that helped Nevada finally break though in 2010 and what could help them again in front of a daunting ‘11 schedule.

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Some players simply live up to the billing.  Deontè Burton, coming off a sensational prep career in Los Angeles which saw him earn numerous accolades, arrived in Reno with the impact expectations as a freshman.  After averaging 13.7 points and a team high 3.5 assists and 1.3 steals per game, the high-rising 6-foot-1 point man garnered the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Freshman of the Year honor.  It was the fourth such time a Nevada freshman won the award. Burton was also named to the all-WAC Newcomer team and earned an all-WAC Honorable Mention.

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One of the more popular features among Nevada recruits the past few years has been our “Behind the Mask” video segments, which detail the backgrounds of each future Wolf Pack player and how they got started on the gridiron. Westlake (Calif.) high school receiver Cody Tuttle is the subject of our latest feature. Silver and Blue Sports recently caught up with the 6-foot-3, 220-pound Southern California standout to find out more about him. Read more »

One of the more popular statements in Wolf Pack football over the past several years came from former Nevada assistant coach Jim Mastro, the 2010 Running Backs Coach of the Year, when he talked about the definition of a “Nevada Back”.  There have been a handful over the years to earn that title, including recently departed senior Vai Taua, who rushed for 4,588 yards and 45 touchdowns in 45 career games.  Silver and Blue Sports briefly caught up with No. 34 in Los Angeles this past week.

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With 5 of its 10 returning players enrolled in this year’s SayNo Classic, attending the Los Angeles event is about the best watch to catch up on Nevada hoops this summer.  Junior Malik Story, plus sophomore’s Deontè Burton, Devonte Elliott, Kevin Panzer and Jordan Burris are competing against dozens of other college players in what has quickly become one of the best basketball events on the calendar.

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There’s always quite the battle every summer and fall among prep recruits to become the future quarterback under Hall of Fame head coach Chris Ault. There is simply no better coach in the country at teaching the nation’s hottest offensive scheme, the Pistol offense, than Ault, who created the system a handful of years ago.

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Sometimes there are athletes who just exude a lot of talent, yet struggle to get a lot of media recruiting attention.  Nevada has recruited a plethora of those players over the past several years under Hall of Fame head coach Chris Ault, including numerous prospects who have developed into NFL talent.  One player in the ‘12 class that really stood with high major potential is Cory Littleton, a San Diego native who earned the Grossmont – Valley Conference Football Defensive Player of the Year honors during his junior season.

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