Whenever I would attend a game or practice over the years where Dave Rice was coaching, he would always make it a point to come over and talk to me. He’s just a quality guy. He never hesitated going out of his way to acknowledge me, and always let me know how much he respected me.

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I remember when Billy Tubbs was coaching at Oklahoma and everyone was trying to recruit Wayman Tisdale. Wayman was an Oklahoma high school legend and the nation’s top recruit. We all assumed Wayman was going to stay at home. Billy and I were good friends, so I asked him: “Does anyone else have a chance at signing him?” Billy told me, “There’s not enough oil in the whole country to buy Tisdale out of Oklahoma.”

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I get upset every time I think about the NCAA. I just get so mad whenever I read or see something about the NCAA and how they treated me so unfairly. That was my initial reaction last week when watching the premiere of the documentary “Runnin’ Rebels of UNLV,” which was produced by HBO Sports. (The hour-long program debuts March 12 and runs throughout the month).

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The UNLV basketball team got into a rut with its shooting last week, but I’m certain they will get out of it.

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I think Auburn quarterback Cam Newton might be the best college football player I’ve ever seen. A quarterback with his size (6-foot-6, 250-pounds) who can run and pass like he can is rare. But what makes him the best is how he comes to play every game. He didn’t have a bad game all year.

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Here’s some good news for Rebel fans upset about Wednesday’s loss to UC Santa Barbara: They also beat us the year we won the national championship.

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The Maui tournament has been around for years and is always one of the best preseason tournaments. We played here in 1988 and opened with DePaul. They had a banquet before the tournament started, and the DePaul coach came up to me and said they should rename the tournament to the Las Vegas Invitational because we had so many fans there.

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San Diego is so perfect in the summer. I spent the last few months living at my condo in Pacific Beach and staying away from the brutal Las Vegas heat.

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Justine King, my oldest granddaughter, will be graduating this weekend from Penn State University with a double major in international relations and marketing, and a minor in Spanish. We are flying into Baltimore and making the beautiful two-hour drive to watch her graduate.

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Everyone thinks UNLV has a heated rivalry with Duke and that I have hard feelings toward their program because of the Final Four loss in 1991. But I have a great respect for the Duke program and coach Mike Krzyzewski. We have a great relationship.

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