Joe Santoro

2 weeks ago | nevadaappeal.com | Joe Santoro

Sports Fodder:The Fresno State Bulldogs are quickly becoming the greatest benefactor the Nevada Wolf Pack can count on each and every men's basketball offseason. The Wolf Pack plucked another key piece off the Bulldogs' roster last week by securing 6-foot-8 defensive force Elijah Price. Price, who will help alleviate the loss of Nick Davidson (also 6-8) to the Clemson Tigers last week, gives the Pack one of the best returning rebounders in the Mountain West.

3 weeks ago | nevadaappeal.com | Joe Santoro

Sports Fodder:The Name Image Likeness pay-for-play era, along with the Wild West, anything goes, free-for-all that is the NCAA transfer portal, according to many recent media reports, is being blamed for the death of March Madness. There were, after all, no thrilling, heart-tugging upsets by an unknown underdog this year. All four No. 1 seeds (Duke, Houston, Auburn, Florida) are in the Final Four this weekend. The rich got richer.

1 month ago | nevadaappeal.com | Joe Santoro

Sports Fodder:The Nevada Wolf Pack men's basketball team has been gutted once again. The Wolf Pack, in the here-today, gone-tomorrow world of the transfer portal era, has become a pop-up store at the mall. It emerges for all to see in early November but by late March all you see are empty shelves, stray pieces of paper blowing in the wind and a deflated Steve Alford left to pick up the pieces. The Pack each season lasts roughly five months and then vanishes like clockwork.

1 month ago | nevadaappeal.com | Joe Santoro

Sports Fodder:Steve Alford has serious concerns about the sport he loves. And he clearly believes you should have these concerns also if you, too, truly love his sport. The Nevada Wolf Pack's men's basketball coach told us all after the Wolf Pack's 67-59 loss to the Colorado State Rams last Thursday at the Mountain West tournament in Las Vegas that his sport is broken. It is fractured and has lost its way, as well as its heart and soul.

1 month ago | nevadaappeal.com | Joe Santoro

Sports Fodder:The time has come for the Nevada Wolf Pack men's basketball team to finally receive a little Steve Alford postseason magic. The Wolf Pack has only heard or read about the Alford postseason magic in history books. That magic, unfortunately for Pack loyalists, has yet to actually appear or materialize in Northern Nevada since Alford came to town for the 2019-20 season.