Author: Dan Wolken
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Former Kings, Nuggets coach George Karl interested in UNLV job
Recently fired Sacramento Kings coach George Karl is making a push to land the suddenly open coaching position at Nevada-Las Vegas, USA TODAY Sports has learned. A person with knowledge of the situation, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the private nature of the coaching search, said Karl – also a former Denver Nuggets…
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List of 10 candidates to replace Steve Sarkisian at USC includes Air Force’s Troy Calhoun
We say it so often it’s become a cliche, but in this case it’s absolutely true. Southern California must nail this hire. Whether it’s Pat Haden making the call (it shouldn’t be, given his mishandling of the football program) or the school president or one of the Trojans’ big boosters, there is no room for error.…
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Young, fearless Busch Series drivers like Kyle Busch are getting premier rides earlier in their careers
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — For decades the big, black mass of chain link that’s piled up outside the Civic Center has alternately awed and inspired, annoyed and confounded, and, perhaps most often, simply divided residents of this otherwise famously tolerant beach town. Nearly three stories high and shaped like an atomic bomb’s giant mushroom cloud,…