With four starters gone from last season’s 29-5 team that reached the top 10 for the first time in school history on the way to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, Kemp bears the burden of passing Nevada basketball’s winning legacy onto the next generation.

There will be headaches. There will be moments of aggravating confusion, loads of foolish mistakes and plenty of cheap losses. You know, all the things that go along with being a young basketball team and replacing four starters.

As the Wolf Pack made its push toward the top 10 last season, Fox refused to shorten his bench. Freshmen like Brandon Fields, JaVale McGee and Matt LaGrone continued to get crucial minutes down the stretch and in the postseason. With the loss of four starters from last year’s team — including Nick Fazekas, the best player in school history — the Wolf Pack needs those minutes to translate to better production this season.

The Nick Fazekas days might be finished in Reno, but JaVale McGee showed in Saturday’s exhibition against Seattle Pacific that Nevada’s run of dominant big men isn’t over.

Sophomore forward Tyrone Hanson has been dismissed from the Nevada men’s basketball team, coach Mark Fox said at a Tuesday press conference.

Hanson was involved with the confrontation at a party on Saturday night where three people were shot and killed, including University of Nevada, Reno student and former Tau Kappa Epsilon president Derek Jensen.

“Dawn” takes place in the days following the zombie outbreak of “Night,” shifting the focus from the country to the city. The opening scenes show pandemonium as police officers ineffectively fight a horde of zombies in an apartment complex.

Entering Sunday night’s game against Boise State, Nevada had lost seven straight games to the Broncos by a combined score of 346-76 with no game closer than four touchdowns.

Despite losing four starters off last year’s 29-win team, Nevada basketball’s plight won’t last long. Not only does the young Wolf Pack stand a fair shot at continuing its four-year run at the top this season, but Nevada’s recent recruiting means any slip will be temporary.

Nevada football means something again. The proof doesn’t lie in the Wolf Pack’s 27-20 win against UNLV on Saturday or the Fremont Cannon remaining blue. It doesn’t even show in all the young talent the Wolf Pack used to take out the Rebels.

The years of perfecting offensive strategy thinned his hair. The battle to move Nevada up to the highest level of college football wrinkled his face.

Asking the casual Syracuse or LSU fan about Nevada football coach Chris Ault would probably be about as insightful as asking Britney Spears about steps 3-12 on the path to sobriety. Yet both teams run packages from Ault’s “Pistol” offense.

Last season the Nevada football student section was an abomination­­—an assault on decency, morality and any fine human being who has ever taken off their shirt to paint their chest in the name of team spirit.

As the Nevada soccer team played Oregon to a 1-0 loss on Friday night, Terri Patraw watched from the top of the Mackay Stadium stands instead of the sidelines.

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.