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----- Former UNLV basketball star Kaspars Kambala, who has been practicing with the Rebels as they get ready for an exhibition tour of Australia, said his next fight will be at the Las Vegas Hilton July 8. It's too bad his opponent won't be Beas Hamga. From all reports, Kas has been punking UNLV's big man of the future all over the Cox Pavilion court this week.
----- Kenny Mayne, the former UNLV backup quarterback with two left feet, will be signing copies of his book, "An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport," from 3-5:30 p.m. Friday at Red Rock Resort's race and sports book. "History" is the wacky ESPN personality's first book. Plans for a sequel, Mayne said, depend on media attention and his attention span.
----- The 12-man squad that will represent the USA in Beijing at the Olympics later this summer will be announced before a mini-camp in Las Vegas the last weekend of June. A Sunday practice also has been canceled, meaning mini-camp will consist of one three-hour practice at Cox Pavilion on Saturday afternoon June 28. When they said "mini-camp," they didn't lie. Let's just hope the Greeks aren't practicing their pick-and-roll play at maxi-camp when the NBA stars are partying -- I mean, holding mini-camp -- in Las Vegas.
----- The dinner and memorabilia auction at the Orleans Arena benefiting UNLV basketball legend and broadcast analyst Glen Gondrezick is Friday night. Tickets to "Gondo Night" are $100. No RSVP necessary. Those unable to attend can still make a donation that will be put toward his impending heart transplant and enormous medical bills by addressing an envelope to the Glen Gondrezick Heart Transplant Fund, 631 N. Stephanie St., Box 450, Henderson, NV 89014. For more information, click on Gondonight.com.
---- If you excitedly click open an e-mail that begins "The Families of Dale Earnhardt and Johnny Cash come together for ..." .... you might be comedian Jeff Foxworthy.
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----- Speaking of Johnny Cash, there used to a football league called the WFL, which used to have a franchise called the Chicago Fire, which used to run onto the field to "Ring of Fire." That lasted a couple of seasons. Then the Fire and the WFL "Walked the Line" into irrelevance and obscurity.
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