Levi, with all due respect, fans don't deserve craziness. Journalism is about perspective and insight, things you lost a lot of with the departure of Rob and Ron.

But if craziness is what you're after, then maybe you laid off the right people. They're so 20th Century, with their grown-up journalism and stuff.

Don't take this as being disrespectful to Ryan's talents... everyone has their niche. Rob's was keeping things on an even keel and offering the perspective of the sport. Ron looked at sports objectively and offered the perspective of local history.

Both will be sorely, sorely missed.

That channelsurfing.net site doesn't seem to have Arizona and UNLV listed on its schedule.

Does FSN do a live streaming anywhere or am I going to have to find a bar?

Doc, I can assure you that there isn't one in the Portland metro area. Not a one.

Why is it so hard to ban these places?

Other cities, outside Nevada, have no problem banning massage parlors.

One thing I noticed at my first Rebels game in a couple of years... they're counting the crowd more legitimately. A few years ago that crowd would have been reported in the 12-13k range.

That seemed like a solid 11,000. Wish I could be there for Saturday.

Clearly, Sanford had his share of the blame for the last five years.

But he used the opportunity Monday to point out some things that *must* be addressed, and realistically *can* be addressed. First among them, the atrocious state of the player facilities at Sam Boyd.

The home locker room smells like mold, it's dark, it's cramped and hard to get around in, it's partitioned poorly and there isn't much parking behind it for players to arrive directly at the stadium on game day.

The sad part is the visitors locker room is in much better shape, at least aesthetically, after the XFL upgraded it. Obviously, the visitors locker room doesn't have the same space for coaches offices (which are also cramped and dank.)

That whole north end of the stadium should have been redone years ago, with a short section of stands, new lockers, moving the scoreboard to the south end zone to free up a view of Frenchman's Mountain... but for cryin' out loud, instead, they're stuck with a 1960s-era cinder block locker room that looks like it belongs in a city park, not in the stadium of a team trying to become an automatic qualifier for the BCS.

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Again, for those of you suggesting an on-campus stadium, think of this:

1. TCF Bank Stadium at Minnesota cost $280 million to build. I think it's fair to expect similar construction costs for a new stadium in Las Vegas.

2. To build an on-campus stadium, you're going to have to replace the parking you're sacrificing for it. That's going to involve a garage, which is another expense.

3. The FAA is reluctant to approve football stadiums near airport flight paths. See what happened when Phoenix/Tempe tried to build their new football stadium under the Sky Harbor approach path.

4. Back to cost. Roughly $300 million to raise from a community that is as stingy as it gets when it comes to taxes. That means donors, significant donors... donors connected to the largest industry in town, which has *zero* interest in seeing a new event venue being built close to the Strip.

Or you could spend $10 million at Sam Boyd and upgrade the player facilities for recruiting purposes. That $10 million can be paid back in increments every time another Mountain West school makes a BCS game.

Anyone have a better idea?

He could have said any of these things in the last five years. I think the way he handled bringing up these valid points -- particularly as it relates to the facilities within Sam Boyd Stadium, which are pathetic -- says, yet again, a lot about his character.

An on-campus stadium is a non-issue because nobody's going to pay for it... the big donors are all related to casino companies, and another stadium would be competition for events that they want at their venues. But about 1/4 to 1/3 of Las Vegas' population lives on the east side of town -- and most UNLV students don't live on campus. The location is fine, but the facilities within are not.

If it weren't for stuff like this, hockey would just be soccer on ice.

Guy is absolutely right. Check this quote last month from arch-Republican Bob Packwood:

"Do I think that a major business -- that its primary factor in locating a business is the tax structure in that state? I don't think that's the primary factor. Especially if you're any kind of a business that requires a relatively educated labor force, I think you would be more concerned with what kind of education, and if you're technical, what kind of physicists and engineers you turn out than what is the tax rate. Having said that, can the tax rate get high enough that if some company can make a decision between two states, and it's relatively equal in all other considerations, then the tax break can hurt you " If we really could afford a sensational higher education system that would be a greater factor in many businesses decisions."

Honor the coach by beating the crud out of an opponent?

Not very classy.