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Perry's first contact with UNLV was in the spring of 1986, when he told the university's coaches that Lloyd Daniels, considered by many the top high school player in New York City, was interested in going to the school. Daniels was then an 18-year-old high school dropout who had attended five different high schools in three states. Each school had availed itself of his talents on the court but never managed to solve his profound reading problems...
...April 11, 1986, Daniels signed a letter of intent to attend UNLV. Six months later, UNLV's then assistant coach Mark Warkentien became his legal guardian. It was arranged for Daniels to attend a California junior college to get his grades up and help him with his reading. He then enrolled at UNLV. But on Feb. 9, 1987, Daniels was arrested attempting to buy crack. Perry paid the $1,500 to bail...
...UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian announced that Daniels would never play for the school. Perry was outraged. "He said if we had treated Daniels right, we would have got a number of New York guys," recalls Tarkanian, who claims to know Perry only as Sam and believes he is in the "commodities" business. Daniels, who left UNLV, has since been in at least two drug-rehabilitation programs. He played for a time in the C.B.A., and is now back in New York City...
Sweet 16 predictions: Illinois, Louisville, Missouri, Syracuse, Oklahoma, Virginia, Alabama, North Carolina, Arizona, UNLV, Seton Hall, LSU, Georgetown, N.C. State, Kansas St. and Duke...
Continuing its competition against top-ranked teams, the netwomen lost a 7-2 decision to fourth-ranked UCLA. Harvard closed out its trip with a 6-3 loss to Santa Barbara and a 6-0 blitzing of UNLV...