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As the winter season continues to dwindle away, NIAA officials continue to plead with Governor Sisolak to relax directives and allow prep sports to resume. Above, the PCHS volleyball team celebrates a point last season. Volleyball and soccer have a green light to begin practice in February.
As the winter season continues to dwindle away, NIAA officials continue to plead with Governor Sisolak to relax directives and allow prep sports to resume. Above, the PCHS volleyball team celebrates a point last season. Volleyball and soccer have a green light to begin practice in February.
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Season lost? Basketball, wrestling and football remain on no-play list
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 1:00 AM
Pershing County’s 10-month sports drought may be coming to an end. However, the high school wrestlers and basketball players just got some sad news. 
“Due to the governor’s extension of the pause, we have shut down the basketball and wrestling seasons at this time,” said Pershing County superintendent Russell Fecht last weekend.
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    Still playing: Bills, Bucs risen from Super Bowl droughts

    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 1:00 AM
    In the 1990s, the Bills buffaloed their way to four successive — if not successful — Super Bowls. No other franchise has managed that.
    About a decade later, the long-downtrodden Buccaneers swashbuckled to an NFL title.
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  • Sherfield scores 27 to carry Nevada past Fresno St. 79-65

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    Grant Sherfield scored 27 points, making it six 20-point games in a row, and Nevada beat Fresno State 79-65 on Sunday.
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  • Battle Mountain Junior High students get some work in with clinic

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    Winter sports throughout the state still on pause; officials plead with Sisolak to relax directive

    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 1:00 AM
    In a perfect world — one we are not in right now — the first games of the revamped high school sports season were scheduled to begin this past weekend.
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  • Nevada football team adds two transfers to 2021 signing class

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  • Meyer believes Jacksonville ‘is the place’ he can win in NFL

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