Feb 12, 2018 4 min read

Nevada football schedules PSU

Nevada’s football team has reached an agreement to play at Big Ten power Penn State in 2020 for the first time in school history.

It’s the latest addition to a list of Power Five schools that Nevada of the Mountain West will face in its non-conference schedule over the next three seasons.

This year, that includes the Southeast Conference’s Vanderbilt on the road (Sept. 8) and at home against the Pac 12’s Oregon State (Sept. 15). Nevada opens at home Sept. 1 against Portland State and plays at Toledo Sept. 22.

In 2019, the Wolf Pack open at home against the Big Ten’s Purdue (Aug. 31), then travel to Oregon Sept. 7.

The Penn State matchup announced Monday is set for Sept. 5, 2020 in Happy Valley, Pennsylvania. It will mark the first time the two schools have met.

Former Browns WR

loses part of hand

Former Browns wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi has divulged that he lost most of his left hand in an all-terrain vehicle crash last April.

Massaquoi, who starred at Georgia before he was drafted by Cleveland in the second round in 2009, revealed his prosthetic and details of his misfortune in a video posted Monday on The Players Tribune.

Massaquoi was riding ATVs with friends when he said he took a turn too sharply and crashed. The 31-year-old said it felt as if an explosion had gone off in his hand, and he was initially unaware of the severity of his injury.

“What I’m seeing and what my friends are seeing are completely different,” he said, giving the first public description of his life-changing ordeal. “They’re seeing what actually happened. I’m seeing what I think happened. I’m thinking that I just broke my hand. My friend, on the other hand, thinks my hand just went through a meat grinder or something like that. Meanwhile you can see the panic and the fear in everybody.”

Massaquoi said he was flown by helicopter to a hospital, where doctors initially tried to save his hand. However, after it didn’t heal as hoped, four fingers were amputated. His thumb was spared.

In college basketball

North Carolina beat its two biggest rivals, then pulled away late to beat Notre Dame to cap a demanding stretch.

The 14th-ranked Tar Heels are tired. They also might have found a groove.

Theo Pinson scored 14 of his 16 points after halftime to go with 10 rebounds, helping UNC pull away late to beat Notre Dame 83-66 on Monday night for its third win in five days.

In the NHL

William Nylander had two goals and an assist, helping the streaking Toronto Maple Leafs top the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 on Monday night.

Auston Matthews had three assists for the Leafs (34-19-5), who extended their home win streak to five with their eighth win in nine games overall. Jake Gardiner and James van Riemsdyk scored, and Frederik Andersen made 28 saves in his 28th win of the season.

Alex Killorn, Nikita Kucherov, and Yanni Gourde scored for Tampa Bay (38-15-3). Andrei Vasilevskiy made 19 saves.

In the NBA

Lou Williams scored 20 points, DeAndre Jordan had 16 points and 17 rebounds, and they got plenty of help from a balanced Clippers lineup in a 114-101 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Monday night.

Los Angeles put seven players in double figures and shot 56.5 percent from the field in its fourth win in five games, bouncing back nicely from a loss in Philadelphia.