Blogs: Sports: Upon Further Review

Pair of CSN pitchers from ‘03 title season doing well

By Rob Miech · May 8, 2008 · 11:51 AM

Two pitchers from the College of Southern Nevada baseball championship season of 2003 are in Las Vegas and doing well. Jeff Jacobsen is about to graduate from UNLV. He will be a probation officer. He went 4-0, with a 3.93 ERA, for CSN (when it was CCSN) during that NJCAA World Series-winning season. Billy Leigh went to school in Georgia for two years and has been working for a consumer-products company for the past three years. He plans on finishing ...

Findlay Prep guard Gutierrez signs with California

By Rob Miech · May 7, 2008 · 5:24 PM

Findlay College Prep guard Jorge Gutierrez signed with California and new coach Mike Montgomery on Wednesday. “He’s just elated, relieved and excited,” said Findlay coach Mike Peck. “He’ll bring his ...

Kambala, 647th in a heavyweight ranking, fights Friday

By Rob Miech · May 7, 2008 · 3:47 PM

Kaspars Kambala never played for legendary ex-Rebels coach Jerry Tarkanian, but the former UNLV basketball player has enjoyed Tarkanian’s support in the boxing ring. Kambala, 29, is 1-0-1, and Tarkanian ...

Wranglers welcome nine-day playoff layoff

By Rob Miech · May 5, 2008 · 4:02 PM

The ECHL Kelly Cup playoffs usually mean long layoffs, during and between series, which Las Vegas Wranglers coach Glen Gulutzan doesn’t mind. They won’t start their National Conference finals series ...

CSN baseball wins 15th in a row to claim conference crown

By Rob Miech · May 3, 2008 · 4:36 PM

The College of Southern Nevada swept a four-game series against Southern Idaho this weekend to win the regular season of the Scenic West Athletic Conference. With the title, the Coyotes ...

A 6-3 victory over Alaska puts Wranglers in first semifinals

By Rob Miech · May 2, 2008 · 11:04 PM

The Wranglers advanced past the second round of the ECHL Kelly Cup playoffs for the first time Friday night with a 6-3 victory over the Alaska Aces in Anchorage. Las ...

Alaska ekes out wild OT victory over Wranglers

By Rob Miech · May 1, 2008 · 11:46 PM

On the verge of getting swept out of the ECHL Kelly Cup playoffs by the Las Vegas Wranglers on Thursday night, Alaska salvaged a game with a 6-5 victory in ...

World Series of Poker moves final table to November

By Jeff Haney · May 1, 2008 · 1:07 PM

The final nine players in the World Series of Poker main event will compete for the tournament title on Nov. 9-10 at the Rio instead of the originally scheduled date ...

Wranglers take 3-0 lead on Alaska with 5-2 victory

By Rob Miech · April 29, 2008 · 11:08 PM

Two quick goals near the end of the second period gave Las Vegas some valuable elbow room against Alaska on Tuesday night, and the Wranglers left Sullivan Arena with a ...

Trodick homers power CSN to sweep and first place in SWAC

By Rob Miech · April 27, 2008 · 3:17 PM

Brandon Trodick had a wedding, his older brother’s, to attend Friday night, so he needed to get off the College of Southern Nevada baseball diamond at 2:35 p.m. First, the ...

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