Player Spotlight: Jerry Evans

Basketball, Featured on January 19th, 2012 3 Comments

20120119_bb_evans_150Jerry Evans Jr. thinks back on his days at Leuzinger High School in Southern California and smiles.

“I was Mr. Get It Done,” the Nevada Wolf Pack sophomore guard said recently. “I was a scorer in high school. I shot all the shots.”

Defense was, well, something his teammates took care of while he waited for them to pass him the ball. Read more »

Nevada 81, Omaha 69

Basketball, Featured on January 18th, 2012 No Comments

20110116_hunt_omaha_150There was a definite Nevada energy shortage Tuesday night at Lawlor Events Center.

“We came out a little lackadaisical,” junior guard Malik Story said.

“We didn’t come out too ready to play,” senior center Dario Hunt added. Read more »

From the Sidelines: Hawai’i at Nevada

Basketball, Featured on January 16th, 2012 No Comments

20110116_bb_czyz_hawaii_150The Nevada men’s basketball team stretched their win streak to 11 with an incredibly physical battle with an improving Hawai’i Warriors squad. Deonte Burton took over the game in the final 3 minutes and the Wolf Pack overcame a 7 point in the final 5 minutes to take a 3 point win at Lawlor Events Center. Silver and Blue Sports photographer Mark Rauh was on hand to catch the action. Read more »

Top Wolf Pack Football Careers of the WAC Era

Featured, Football on January 15th, 2012 No Comments

Colin Kaepernick 150-40In the past two weeks Silver and Blue Sports has taken a close look at the Nevada Wolf Pack football team’s 12 memorable seasons in the Western Athletic Conference.

We have gone back and relived the Top 20 most meaningful team games and the Top 20 most impressive games by individual players over the past 12 years.

In the third and final installment of our Look Back at the Pack in the WAC we examine the Top 35 individual careers in the Pack’s dozen seasons in the conference . . . Read more »

Wolf Pack 77, Hawai’i 74

Basketball, Featured on January 15th, 2012 1 Comment

20111121_bb_dburton_150Deonte Burton just let his basketball instincts take over.

“I just didn’t even really think about it,” Burton said. “I just let it go.”

Burton scored nine points in the final 3:18 as the Nevada Wolf Pack overcame a seven-point deficit in the second half Saturday night to stun the Hawaii Warriors, 77-74, at Lawlor Events Center. Read more »

Five Questions with Warrior Insider

Basketball, Featured on January 14th, 2012 No Comments

20111120_bb_hunt_150This week we changed things up a little and brought in Hawai’i blogger Dayton Morinaga from the excellent blog Warrior Insider to offer his thoughts on this Saturday’s tilt with the Rainbow Warriors. Read more »

Wolf Pack 81, San Jose St. 57

Basketball, Featured on January 13th, 2012 No Comments

20120112_bb_burton_sjsu_150The Nevada Wolf Pack is even surprising itself these days.

“We shot 32 threes?,” smiled point guard Deonte Burton. “I didn’t know that until now. I’m surprised.”
Imagine how the San Jose State Spartans felt.

The Wolf Pack drained half of those 32 threes — a school-record 16 — in rolling over the Spartans 81-57 in front of 4,730 fans at Lawlor Events Center Thursday night. Read more »

Ault Hand Over the Keys? Not Yet!

Featured, Football on January 10th, 2012 3 Comments

Chris Ault 150-12Chris Ault has just two seasons remaining on his current contract to coach the Nevada Wolf Pack football team.

Did a frightening chill just fly up and down your silver and blue spine?

Well, it should. Read more »

Top 20 Individual Performances in the WAC Era

Featured, Football on January 9th, 2012 2 Comments

Colin Kaepernick 150-13Silver and Blue Sports.com is taking a close look at the Nevada Wolf Pack football team’s recently completed 12-year history in the Western Athletic Conference.

Last week we looked at the Top 20 most important Wolf Pack football games in the WAC era.

This installment of our Look Back at the Pack in the WAC takes a close look at the Wolf Pack’s Top 20 most meaningful (it must have contributed to a Pack victory) individual single-game performances in the WAC era . . . Read more »

Midwinter Madness, Elite 8: Midnight Strikes Cinderella Baylor as Oregon, Wisconsin, LSU & TCU Advance

Featured, Football on January 8th, 2012 1 Comment

Crystal Football

After a brief holiday hiatus, the inaugural FPS Playoffs resumed this past week on the neutral sites of traditional New Year’s Bowl Games, providing thrillers that rivaled the drama of our BCS world…read on to see how Oregon survived Baylor in Atlanta, TCU pulled off the upset of Virginia Tech in Phoenix, LSU ousted Michigan State in Dallas, and Wisconsin rallied past Oklahoma State in Orlando…

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