Leah Withrow has been promoted to head groundskeeper for the Reno Aces, making her the only female currently leading a grounds crew in all of Triple-A baseball, and the first female head groundskeeper in team history. Withrow has been with the team full-time since 2018, working under each of the team’s two previous head groundskeepers.
Major League Baseball has proposed a one-month delay in starting spring training due to the coronavirus pandemic and pushing back opening day to April 28, two people familiar with the plan told The Associated Press. Under the plan presented to the players’ union on Friday, the regular season would be cut from 162 games to 154.
There have been four previous Super Bowls in Tampa, some amid war and economic distress, but none have faced the challenges this year’s event encounters because of the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout.
Considering that there has been no repeat NFL champion since the 2004 season, clearly some major obstructions have gotten in the way. For the Chiefs, that hurdle wears a No. 12 jersey and is the last guy to pull off the feat. After demolishing Buffalo for the AFC title, the Chiefs head to Tampa looking to complete the double. It’s been done eight times, twice by the Steelers. But there’s never been such a gap for a repeat winner, and after winning its first Super Bowl in a half-century last year, Kansas City seems primed to end that string of failures.
For Tom Brady, another trip to the Super Bowl — but this time, in a Tampa Bay uniform. And for his new team, the Buccaneers, a first-of-its-kind home game, but without the usual home-field advantage. To put a bow on this make-it-up-as-we-go NFL season — a campaign upended but never fully undone by the coronavirus pandemic — it comes as no surprise that there is no such thing as a straightforward storyline.
UNLV mascot Hey Reb!, which was criticized for what some saw as connotations of the Confederacy, has retired, university President Keith Whitfield announced on Tuesday. The announcement comes after a statue of Hey Reb! was removed from its pedestal outside the Tam Alumni Center on the university’s campus in June. Since the removal, the university stopped using the mascot in the traditional areas of student recruitment and athletics, Whitfield said in a statement.
Anytime news comes out on a late afternoon, it is usually not good. In case of the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association and the sports of basketball and wrestling, the news wasn’t good this past Friday. Both sports were schedule to start practice on Jan. 2 and start games on Jan. 14.
In the 1990s, the Bills buffaloed their way to four successive — if not successful — Super Bowls. No other franchise has managed that. About a decade later, the long-downtrodden Buccaneers swashbuckled to an NFL title. Ever since, pretty much nothing for those teams. Until now. Next weekend, Buffalo, which last got this far in the 1993 season, heads to reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City. And the Chiefs could be missing their dynamic star quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, who was concussed in a 22-17 victory Sunday over Cleveland. “It’s a special time to be a Buffalo Bill, ” tackle Dion Dawkins said.
Grant Sherfield scored 27 points, making it six 20-point games in a row, and Nevada beat Fresno State 79-65 on Sunday. Sherfield hit all 10 of his free throw attempts. He added eight assists.
In a perfect world — one we are not in right now — the first games of the revamped high school sports season were scheduled to begin this past weekend. That deadline came and went with no basketball games or wrestling matches and it appears the state of Nevada won’t be seeing any of those sports taking place anytime soon.
Urban Meyer first started thinking about the NFL about a decade ago. He was getting phone calls from team owners. He was intrigued by the notion of testing his coaching skills at football’s highest level. He was ready to make the jump.
The Nevada football team announced the addition of two four-year transfers to the defensive secondary for the 2021 season. Bentlee Sanders, started 15 games at safety over the past three seasons at South Florida, and Miles Hayes, a starting safety from William and Mary, have signed to join the Wolf Pack as transfers this season.
In a perfect world — one we are not in right now, the first games of the revamped high school sports season was scheduled to begin this past weekend. That deadline came and went with no basketball games or wrestling matches and it appears the state of Nevada won’t be seeing any of those sports taking place anytime soon.
High school basketball and wrestling teams began the small steps to returning to play this winter this past week, as non-contact conditioning was allowed to take place. Even though that part of the comeback has started, it is not known if there will be a basketball or wrestling season this school year.
Thirteen Nevada football players were named to the All-Mountain West team by Phil Steele’s College Football Magazine this week. Nevada landed four players on the first team in quarterback Carson Strong, wide receiver Romeo Doubs, tight end Cole Turner and kicker Brandon Talton.