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PASADENA >> Old offenses die hard for the UCLA football team. After spending the offseason preaching physicality in a power-ruing offense, the Bruins resurrected shades of their old spread offense to tally their first win of the season, a 42-21 victory over UNLV on Saturday at the Rose Bowl. Through three quarters, UCLA threw the ball 57.1 percent of the time against UNLV. By the end of the game, 15 different receivers had at least one reception. Although the new offense was expected to put quarterback Josh Rosen under center more, he took 13 of the team’s first 14 snaps from the shotgun after the Bruins mounted their 15-point comeback against Texas A&M last week while operating ou...

PLAYA VISTA >> The closest UNLV’s Patrick McCaw has gotten to NBA players was two summers ago when the Clippers spent a portion of their fall camp on his college campus. “I said ‘What’s up?’ to DeAndre (Jordan) and Blake (Griffin) in the weight room. But that’s pretty much it,” said McCaw, a star guard for the Rebels. “These are the guys you do crazy stuff with on (NBA) 2K (video game) and to run alongside them or play against them, it’s just hard to believe.” Harder still could be landing that coveted spot in the NBA draft. McCaw, along with UNLV teammate Stephen Zimmerman and 10 other hopefuls worked out for the Clippers on Monday in an effort to impress coaches and scouts in the rem...