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...should underestimate her ability to play any role. At the NCAAs last year she donned a tragic mask on an icy gray morning during practice for the downhill. Mickey Cochran, special coach of the Vermont team, could only say this of the death of the boy from Nevada: "It was a freak thing. Ten thousand racers have gone past that spot in the woods and nothing ever happened. You can't explain a thing like that. He was a fine racer...
...Beach State College was floundering when Jerry Tarkanian was hired as coach six years ago. But Tarkanian knew just what to do about the situation. With impressive speed he recruited new talent and turned out a winner his first season. Last spring, when Tarkanian departed for the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, he left behind one of the top teams in the nation...
...staff of four investigators-there were only two until 1972-clearly cannot police its 769 member institutions. And the competition for high school stars, particularly in football and basketball, gets more intense every year. "The go-getter gets the best man," says Tarkanian's new colleague, University of Nevada at Las Vegas Football Coach Ron Meyer. "You can't afford to leave a rock unturned." To lure their victims out and get them to sign letters of intent, many schools use inducements limited only by the imagination of their recruiters...
...flash you bills when you get there," he reports. "You get an expensive room, a player takes you to a top restaurant and fixes you up with a couple of girls. It's really nice." Students who travel to Las Vegas for a look at the University of Nevada are put up at a Strip hotel, given a tab for meals, and sometimes receive limited gambling money...
Almost immediately after entering the game, Baskerville, a University of Nevada at Las Vegas transfer who had become eligible for team play that afternoon, sank his first shot, a jumper from the corner. He went on to top the Owls with 16 points and 13 rebounds. He sank the winning basket in the last two minutes of the game...