[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 21225]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          ATHLETICS IN NEVADA

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, in Nevada we are very proud of a number of 
things. We have a beautiful State. We are the most mountainous State in 
the Union, except for Alaska, with over 300 separate mountain ranges, 
with 32 mountains over 11,000 feet high. Las Vegas, of course, is the 
entertainment capital of the world.
  We are very proud of our universities for a number of reasons. We 
have a great engineering program at the University of Nevada, Reno. The 
Mackay School of Mines is there, and we are proud of that as well. We 
have a great school for biological sciences, which has a national 
reputation. At UNLV, we have the finest hotel administration program in 
the entire country. The universities in Nevada are very proud of the 
football teams that we had in the forties and fifties. Since the 
schools have been divided, UNR has been a power in division II 
football, and they have played for the national championship. They are 
now a division I team. UNLV has won national championships in 
basketball. The UNLV football team has had some bad years, losing 
dozens of games. Last year they didn't win a single game, but this year 
they were able to beat North Texas State in their first away game.
  A week ago last Thursday and then this past Saturday, they played 
Baylor. Even though Baylor was favored by a couple of touchdowns, one 
of the most miraculous wins in the history of football at the 
professional or college level occurred when Baylor was ahead by four 
points with less than 10 seconds left. They had the ball inside the 10-
yard line of UNLV. Rather than take their four-point victory, they 
wanted to run the score up a little bit and go for a touchdown. In the 
end zone there was a fumble picked up by a UNLV defensive back who ran 
101 yards for the touchdown and beat Baylor with no time left on the 
clock. This was tremendous.
  People are going to be very happy with their new football couch, John 
Robinson, who had a great career before coming to UNLV from the 
University of Southern California and, of course, coaching the Los 
Angeles Rams.
  We offer our congratulations to John Robinson and UNLV for two 
victories, which is two more than they had during all of last year.

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