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...rivals of Tark the Shark's dominant, scandal-plagued basketball teams at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, UNLV stands for UNLoVed. So not many cried when his 1991 squad, 30-0 in the regular season, lost an NCAA semifinal game to the scholars of Duke. The coach's defenders aver that his rehab program for inner-city tall guys is affirmative action at its most productive. Others, spotting the athletes' BMWs in the gym parking lot, see another moral: it's not whether you win or lose, but how much you make on the side...
...rivals of Tark the Shark's dominant, scandal-plagued basketball teams at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, UNLV stands for UNLoVed. So not many cried when his 1991 squad, 30-0 in the regular season, lost an NCAA semifinal game to the scholars of Duke. The coach's defenders aver that his rehab program for inner-city tall guys is affirmative action at its most productive. Others, spotting the athletes' BMWs in the gym parking lot, see another moral: it's not whether you win or lose, but how much you make on the side...
...college basketball, March is not the month of lions or lambs, but of sharks. For the ninth consecutive year, coach Jerry ("Tark the Shark") Tarkanian has led his University of Nevada at Las Vegas Runnin' Rebels squad into the National Collegiate Athletic Association men's basketball tournament. UNLV, which compiled a crushing 30-0 regular-season record, was the pretourney favorite to win its second-straight national championship...
UNLV, which was put on probation in the late 1970s for NCAA transgressions, is one of the superpowers of college basketball. In a city that worships winners, "Tark the Shark" Tarkanian is a patron saint, with the highest winning percentage (82%) in the sport. Along with that come use of a Cadillac, a base salary of $173,855 and a percentage of postseason revenues that could reach $80,000. (UNLV President Robert Maxson's salary is $123,500.) Tarkanian also has an endorsement contract with Nike shoes, a promotional arrangement with a Vegas nightclub and a sporting-goods store...
...immoral. "If a player so much as walked into a casino," Williams declares, "everyone would rise up and say, 'No, no, uh-uh, forget it.' I mean, just the idea of it is offensive. That's like our one normal thing: college basketball. The word would get back to Tark in about seven minutes...