As I write this at 6:15 am Pacific, the Hawaii football team should have landed back on the Big Island, Hawaii's charter flight lifted off at Las Vegas McCarren Airport at 5 am Eastern.
UNLV 34
HAWAII 33
LAS VEGAS — This city is 2,015 feet above sea level.
With 36 seconds remaining in last night's game, Nevada-Las Vegas wideout Phillip Payne's hands were 10 feet higher.
Blanketed by 5-foot-9 cornerback Tank Hopkins, the 6-foot-3 Payne cut to the corner of the end zone. Payne then soared to grab the decisive 15-yard pass and boost UNLV to a 34-33 football victory over Hawai'i at Sam Boyd Stadium.
For those of you who stayed up on the East coast to take in this thriller, you got to sleep around 3 am.
At Sports Monitor yesterday, the Executive Selections finished at 4-5 against the pointspread and we lost 1.2 units. Let's have a great Sunday.
