Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

The most notable of these preemptions was the 1978 World Series angering both NBC and several Las Vegas area viewers some of whom complained to the Federal Communications Commission. Rogers holds honorary doctorates from University of Arizona Idaho State University Kentucky Wesleyan Carroll College and University of Nevada Las Vegas. Jim Rogers has 3 children from a previous marriage: Suzanne Rogers Plant Kimberly Rogers Cell and Perry Rogers; and seven grandchildren.

1938) served as interim chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education. James E.