Since he practiced in the building all last season, UNLV sophomore Chace Stanback knew the Thomas & Mack Center can be a cold arena. But 31.3 percent? That’s Arctic. “Nobody’s ever happy with 31.3 percent, even 38 percent,” Stanback said after Friday’s late-morning practice in the building. “I like to be in ...
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Dr. Neal Smatresk, UNLV’s new president, is ready for basketball season to begin and he’s hoping many in the valley are as enthusiastic come opening night. The Rebels open the 2009-10 season Saturday night against Pittsburg State at the Thomas & Mack Center and Smatresk, an avid sports fan, plans to ...
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Two weeks in a hospital bed near his home in Lajas, Puerto Rico, over the summer zapped UNLV freshman power forward Carlos Lopez of considerable energy and strength. That’s a main reason why he was fighting an uphill battle the moment he arrived on campus and when official basketball practice started ...
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UNLV’s basketball team left for its first road trip today. In fact, it’s on a bus right now to Long Beach, Calif., to play Long Beach State in a private scrimmage late Saturday morning. Friday afternoon on the I-15 between Las Vegas and Los Angeles? Ugh. At least the contingent of Rebels ...
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The basketball teams at Cornell and Utah State are better than UNLV, at least that’s according to 31 coaches. In the newly released ESPN/USA Today coaches poll, the Rebels received two points. On the Top 25 list they check in at No. 53. Cornell and Utah State both got three points. Last season, ...
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A pair of Harlem Globetrotters has been honoring the late Chris “Flash” Richardson, who played basketball at UNLV, in “The Amazing Race 15.” Herbert “Flight Time” Lang and Nathaniel “Big Easy” Lofton have been paying poignant tribute to Richardson as they trek through Tokyo, Phnom Penh and Dubai. They occasionally wear shirts ...
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UNLV players on the sideline or not in the gym at all comprised a decent starting lineup by the end of Saturday’s session inside the Cox Pavilion practice gym. Center Darris Santee, who returned to Houston on Friday to attend today’s funeral for a coaching friend, was excused. Forward Chace Stanback (left ...
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A full week into UNLV hoops practice and sophomore forward Chace Stanback still is a no-show. That’s been the most disappointing part of the official start of the 2009-10 season. When last seen wearing a uniform and eligible to play, Stanback wore the power blue of UCLA when the Bruins advanced to ...
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Scott Hoffman returned to a UNLV practice Thursday afternoon wearing a different uniform than he had donned over the previous four seasons. He looked dapper in his tan slacks and dark dress shoes. Yes, those looked like silk socks. His designer shades hung suavely from the middle of his blue pinstriped ...
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Tyler Norman sliced through the left lane Wednesday afternoon inside the Impact Academy and pulled the hidden-ball trick. He eked by two UNLV post players, and he produced the ball from somewhere behind his left hip at the last second to slip it in the hoop off the glass. “I used to ...
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