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.
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.
Pershing County’s 10-month sports drought may be coming to an end. However, the high school wrestlers and basketball players just got some sad news. “Due to the governor’s extension of the pause, we have shut down the basketball and wrestling seasons at this time,” said Pershing County superintendent Russell Fecht last weekend.
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.
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.
Nevada fought back to tie Saturday night’s series finale at San Diego State twice in the final minute, but the Wolf Pack was done in by Trey Pulliam’s buzzer beater in a 69-67 defeat.
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.
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA), the non-profit governing body of high school athletics in the Silver State, and Snap Mask Sports (SMS) have jointly announced a partnership. Snap Mask Sports is the leader in custom face masks that can be worn safely during practice and competition for all sports. The NIAA joins the state associations of Louisiana, New Mexico, Washington, and Oregon as the latest to partner with Snap Mask Sports.
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.
Each volleyball season, Pershing County High School coach Monica Halverson comes up with a new motto for her team. This season’s theme is, “Together: small in numbers, but mighty in play and focus.” Over the years, coaches like Halverson, Shauna Bake and Lisa Clark have challenged the Mustangs to outplay competitors from larger schools. As a result, the girls play hard and are fun to watch.
There were so many in 2020. Sports in 2020 was an unending state of mourning. It was as if every week, sometimes days, another luminary fell, bringing a cascade of condolence and remembrance. It began New Year’s Day, a harbinger of what the year held, with the deaths of David Stern and Don Larsen. Not long after came a seismic jolt, the helicopter crash of Kobe Bryant in the fog-shrouded California hills that reverberated across sports and across continents.