Mike Ball dismissed from football team
Nevada running back Mike Ball.
Nevada football coach Chris Ault announced the dismissal of running back Mike Ball from the team Tuesday.
“Mike violated team rules and protocol and, unfortunately for him, there was no other alternative,” Ault said. “We’ll do everything we can to help Mike move forward.”
Ball was suspended for two games during last season (vs. Brigham Young University on Sept. 25, 2010 and vs. the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Oct. 2, 2010) for undisclosed reasons.
Ball, a junior from Las Vegas, rushed for 704 yards and three touchdowns on 135 carries this season. He played in nine games this season with five starts. For his career, he had 1,183 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns on the ground with four more touchdowns through the air. He is also Nevada’s all-team leader in kick returns with 1,695 yards on 70 returns.
The Nevada Sagebrush sports desk can be reached at sports@nevadasagebrush.com.
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This is awful.
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Mike had so much swagger! What are we going to do now!?
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Hahaha! This is hilarious.
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#Wasteoftalent!!!! I swear idk what kind of advice these kids are getting. Threw away tons of opportunities…
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Good thing we have 4 other running backs
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Smoking trees with Mike Ball was the highlight of my life.
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Well you two dummies will have ample time between shifts at the Home Depot to smoke.
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His only issues are a stubborn old coach who refuses to play his best plaers.
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uh, ray, if he put the pipe down, he would still be on the team….not his first failed test, far from it
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