Wolf Pack Basketball Preview – UC Riverside

Basketball, Featured on December 16th, 2011 No Comments

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As far as Malik Story is concerned, there is just one way to get northern Nevada to come back to Lawlor Events Center this winter.

“Excitement and wins,” the Nevada Wolf Pack junior said Thursday. “That’s what it takes. Hopefully that’s what is coming.” Read more »

Nevada Defense Struggles in 2011

Featured, Football on December 14th, 2011 2 Comments

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Chris Ault was expecting more out of his Nevada Wolf Pack defense this year.

“I don’t think we made the progress we made last year,” said Ault, whose Wolf Pack will take on Southern Mississippi in the Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl. “This year we kind of stagnated a little.” Read more »

Midwinter Madness, Round One: Charmed Frogs

Featured, Football on December 14th, 2011 2 Comments

On the first ever Saturday of upper Division I playoff football, TCU squeaks past South Carolina on another missed field goal; Houston bounces back to bounce Georgia; LSU blows past Louisiana Tech; and Virginia Tech mercifully ends Penn State’s nightmarish season in the final minute….

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Nevada Football Notebook

Featured, Football on December 13th, 2011 No Comments

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Allen Hardison is indeed alive and kicking once again.

“Everything’s good,” smiled the Wolf Pack field goal kicker. “I’ve been practicing and I feel great.” Read more »

Five Questions with Bob Meseroll of the Missoulian

Basketball, Featured on December 10th, 2011 No Comments

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Ahead of tonight’s game at Dahlberg Arena, we get some perspective on the Montana Grizzlies from Bob Meseroll, sports editor and basketball writer at the Missoulian. Read more »

Player Spotlight: Zack Madonick

Featured, Football on December 9th, 2011 No Comments

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When asked a few weeks back how his right leg and foot were feeling, Zack Madonick looked down at the leg and foot in question, flashed a grin, looked up and announced, “I’m good. I’m here. I‘m standing.”

Those six simple words were something Madonick wasn’t sure he was going to be able to say this season. Read more »

2011 Wolf Pack Football Season was Good, Bad and Ugly

Featured, Football on December 8th, 2011 5 Comments

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The Nevada Wolf Pack football team might have been better served by installing a revolving door on Cashell Fieldhouse this past season.

“We had to go through a lot of changes this year,” Pack head coach Chris Ault said recently. “I don’t know if I’ve had a year like this one where so many things were unsettled.” Read more »

Deonte’s Team

Basketball, Featured on December 7th, 2011 1 Comment

Nevada PG Deonte Burton is taking control - photo by Mark Rauh
The Nevada Wolf Pack men’s basketball team finally has an identity.

The Wolf Pack is no longer simply a ragtag, random bunch of likeable kids thrown together at seemingly the last minute from England, Poland, the southern California playground as well as Colorado, Duke, Indiana and various basketball-centric prep schools. Read more »

Nevada Hawai’i Bowl Bound

Featured, Football on December 6th, 2011 2 Comments

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The Nevada Wolf Pack football team was nearly headed back to the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco later this month.

“The Kraft Bowl was in the conversation up until the last minute on Sunday,” Nevada athletic director Cary Groth said Monday. “It really came down to the wire.” Read more »

Midwinter Madness: Selection Sunday

Featured, Football on December 5th, 2011 5 Comments

In the universe we currently inhabit, LSU and Alabama will square off for the second time this season in the “national championship game.”  In another, they may do the same, but not after besting 30 other contenders.  All 32 teams of our mock playoff were revealed on our inaugural Selection Sunday.

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