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1,000 Words: Nevada football coach Jay Norvell's tears show his old-school style

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Reno Gazette-Journal columnist Chris Murray has been known to be a bit wordy, so we're giving him 1,000 words (no more than that) to share his thoughts from the week that was in the world of sports.

* I’VE BEEN ATTENDING COLLEGE FOOTBALL media days for almost a decade now, but this week’s Mountain West Media Summit (they changed the name) brought a first for me: a coach breaking into tears during an interview. That coach was Nevada’s Jay Norvell. Fortunately, he wasn’t talking about anybody passing or being terminally ill.