Junior point guard Lyndale Burleson is ineligible for the fall 2007 semester, leaving the Nevada men’s basketball team with a significant void in its backcourt.

Billed as presidential candidate forums for economic and education policy, the Opportunuty ‘08 issue forums on Aug. 20 and 22 lacked participation from major candidates in both parties that made some question Nevada’s importance.

The Wolf Pack Sports Network reached a three-year deal with MY 21 KAME-TV to televise Nevada football and basketball games starting with the 2007-08 season.

A busy summer brought the student government a bigger budget, new budgeting methods for clubs and organizations, an emphasis on tradition and a new constitution.

You could almost feel the impact after the announcement that senior All-WAC linebacker Ezra Butler was suspended for Nevada’s season opener against Nebraska.

There was a lot going on in Wolf Pack sports over the summer between the NBA Draft, NFL training camp and Major League Baseball.

Chris Ault’s ‘Toughest schedule’ begins against the No. 20 ranked team in nation.

People call Chancellor Jim Rogers many things. Impatient. Mercurial. Thin skinned. And because of those descriptions, people should call Rogers unfit to lead the Board of Regents.

For years, I have been studying signs from pop culture, ancient prophecies, the weather and politics, and they all have been pointing to one thing. Now, after deciphering the message “ABITXTOST” sent to me in my alphabet soup, I have come to a conclusion: The world is ending soon.

The thought of epic parties, fresh faces, new classes and the possibility to make everlasting memories has me happy like a little child before Christmas.

Hello to all of my new and old readers, and welcome to college! Welcome back to all of those brave souls who are returning, and welcome freshmen, to a whole new world of learning, friendships, dating, love and sex.

I walked into Wal-Mart to shop for school supplies the other day and left with a fish. I’m not sure how it happened. Every time I go there, I leave with random things.

As the news media continue to undergo a radical transformation from a daily newspaper into a 24-hour Web product that goes beyond traditional newspaper storytelling, we are more than happy to run with those changes.

Catch up on the summer music you missed with Japanese poetry.

Larry Harvey set fire to an 8-foot crudely built wooden man as 20 people watched on San Francisco’s Baker Beach in honor of the Summer Solstice. That event in 1986 would be known as the first Burning Man. Twenty years later nearly 40,000 people gathered in the Black Rock Desert to do the same thing to a 40-foot man standing on a 32-foot tall Art-Deco Pavilion.

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