The meeting with Jack Kent Cooke and Jerry Buss had gone well. Vic Weiss was close to a deal that would bring University of Nevada, Las Vegas, basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian to Los Angeles to lead the Lakers, the team Cooke was selling to Buss.
Jerry Tarkanian, whose 1989-90 UNLV team featured Larry Johnson and Greg Anthony and won the national championship, has passed away at 84. Reaching four Final 4's, his overall Division 1 record was 729-201, and he
UNLV alumnus Taylor Oblad takes a "selfie" at the Jerry Tarkanian statue near the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Hall of Fame coach Jerry Tarkanian, who built a basketball dynasty at
Dave Rice understands better than most the impact Jerry Tarkanian had on UNLV's basketball program. Rice played for Tarkanian when the Runnin' Rebels won the NCAA title in 1990. And as the current Las Vegas coach, he has embraced the legacy of
Jerry Tarkanian, who built Nevada-Las Vegas into a national powerhouse in college basketball with an insatiable will to win, created the persona of Tark the Shark and ignited a long-running feud with the N.C.A.A. over accusations that he ran outlaw