Someone 'sign' this young man

Juan López is a student attending Nevada and on the staff of the Nevada Sagebrush, the student newspaper. We've seen but two articles authored by him both were very good pieces. Some media entity should be eyeing this young man.

Here is the other López article we referenced -- one about former Wolf Packer Tyrone Hanson.

Move over Pack basketball, it’s the football team’s turn
Juan López
The Nevada Sagebrush
May 5, 2009

Here we go again.

In the 1990s, Nevada was looked at as a football school.

Yes, the Wolf Pack was a part of the lowly Big Sky Conference and Big West Conference, but the success it had was unprecedented.

From 1990-97, our beloved football team was 71-26 (a .732 winning percentage) and won seven — count ‘em — seven conference championships. Nevada won the Big Sky in ’90 and ’91 and took the Big West crown in ’92 and from ’94 to ’97.

There was no stopping these guys.

Well, actually they did prove to be beatable. The Wolf Pack went just 14-31 from ’98-2001.

So at that time, another one of our sports teams stepped up and took the spotlight — the baseball squad...

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