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William Jankowiak, anthropology professor at UNLV and former visiting professor at Harvard, is convinced of several things: most gamblers are liars, they usually remember their wins instead of their losses, and they don’t actually make much profit. In other words, compulsive gamblers have somehow convinced themselves that they are winning at an inherently losing game. “If you did all the calculations, you shouldn’t gamble. If you were really rationally put together, you wouldn’t gamble,” Jankowiak says. “There?...
...dynamic state of both parties' races, however, has helped give Nevada a boost of late, and residents are starting to believe their caucus might matter after all. "Nevada is sort of the Rodney Dangerfield of national politics," says Ted Jelen, political science professor at UNLV. "I'm not sure how much the national media is taking it seriously, and I'm not sure how many Nevada voters are taking it seriously, but the candidates are taking it seriously...
...defeat Harvard.“New Mexico State was a good hitting team, and we kept them off balance,” Allard said. “We had a great offensive day. We did a better job of moving runners and getting key hits.”UNLV 1, HARVARD 0In the tournament opener on Friday, Madick pitched a complete game, giving up only two hits. Despite her efforts, the Crimson was unable to come up with any runs, as UNLV (19-11) took the win. The Rebels’ lone run came in the second inning...
...immediately ushered to the sidelines, it will need huge games from its two leaders, as the Quakers have little quality depth. If Penn were to pull off an initial-round upset, it would be the first tourney win by an Ivy since 1998, when fifth-seeded Princeton beat UNLV. And if they don’t, well, the schadenfreude derived from watching the Ivy League bully get pounded by a member of college basketball’s elite ranks has grown to become a particularly enjoyable March pastime...
...first stop was at Fordham’s graduate school of communications, where White pursued a master’s degree while coaching. He earned an M.B.A. while coaching at Notre Dame and then accepted a full-time assistant coaching position at UNLV in 1990. After a stint at Nevada and then back to Las Vegas, White ended up at Wisconsin...