A decade has passed sinceApolo Anton Ohno, Derek Parraand Sarah Hughes took theirgolden turns on the Salt LakeCity Olympic ice; since U.S.men swept snowboard medalsin a Utah halfpipe; since Vonet-ta Flowers rode a Park City bob-sled run to history, becomingthe first black Winter Gameschampion.

In those 10 years, the U.S.Olympic Committee has triedtwice to bring another Olym-pics to U.S. soil.

And failed miserably.As Salt Lake City marks the

10th anniversary of its Games— the opening ceremony was onFeb. 8, 2002 — U.S. Olympic bidambitions are on hold while theUSOC and the InternationalOlympic Committee jockeyover revenue sharing.

The earliest the USA couldhost another Olympics is 2022,when a Winter Games will beheld. It could be much later.

“We’re not considering awinter or a summer bid rightnow,” says Scott Blackmun, theUSOC’s chief executive officer.

That’s nothing to panic over,says Jon Killoran, CEO of theReno-Tahoe Winter Games Co-alition, which hopes to make abid to bring the Winter Gamesto Reno-Tahoe in 2022. It’s partof the Olympic process, whichoften takes time.

“We’ve stated all along thatthe USOC has been very suc-cinct in what they need to ac-complish with the IOC in termsof a revenue-sharing agree-ment,” Killoran said. “We sup-port and understand that proc-ess, and we continue to prepareourselves so that at the appro-priate time, when the USOCwants to move forward with thebid process, we can be ready todo that.”

Killoran said it was in 2009when the IOC and USOC firstbegan to negotiate the revenue-sharing agreement, and at thattime they set 2013, prior to whenthe host of the 2020 Games willbe announced (on Sept. 7, 2013)as a guideline to have an agree-ment in place.

Not having a home Games onthe horizon, Blackmun says, af-fects Olympic awarenessamong fans and impacts tosome extent how much sponsorand donor money the USOCraises to train Olympians. Over

SALT LAKE ANNIVERSARY

Jill Bakken, right, and Vonetta Flowers start at the top of the hill in the women's bobsled competition onFeb. 19, 2002, in Park City, Utah. They won the gold medal. MICHAEL CLEVENGER/GANNETT NEWS SERVICE FILE

An Olympic issueUSOC has noplans for 2022bid — for nowStaff and wire reports

UPCOMING OLYMPIC GAMES

SUMMER

2012: London

2016: Rio de Janeiro

2020: To be awarded in summer2013

WINTER

2014: Sochi, Russia

2018: Pyeongchang, South Korea

2022: To be awarded in summer2015See OLYMPICS, Page 5D

THE FILE ON NICKROLOVICH

BORN: Feb. 16,1979

POSITION: Offen-sive coordinator/quarterbacks coach

HOMETOWN: DalyCity, Calif.

PLAYING CAREER:Arena League (five

teams from 2003-08); Denver Bron-cos (2002-03); Hawaii (2000-01); SanFrancisco CC (1998-99).

COACHING CAREER: Hawaii (2008-11); San Francisco CC (2007-08)

What happens when you takeone of the top pass-game coach-es in the nation and fold him intoone of the country’s dominantrushing attacks?

Wolf Pack football fans areabout to find out.

Continuing a complete over-haul of his coaching staff, Neva-da coach Chris Ault hired offen-sive coordinator/quarterbackscoach Nick Rolovich onWednesday morning.

“The Pistol offense is specialand now it’s going to get bigger,stronger and faster,” Ault said.

The 32-year-old Rolovichspent the past four seasons atHawaii, including the past twoas the team’s offensive coordi-nator. Rolovich, who also playedquarterback at Hawaii and inthe Arena Football League, isconsidered one of the top youngoffensive minds in the nation.His Warriors teams were annu-ally among the nation’s top pass-ing teams. The Wolf Pack hasbeen among the top rushing

teams.Rolovich said he was excited,

honored and impressed with theWolf Pack’s program, addingthat his goal is to make Nevadathe top offense in the nation. Ne-vada hasn’t been far off the pastfew seasons, ranking in the top12 nationally in points per gamein three of the past four seasons.

Ault said the addition of Ro-lovich is expected to spark aWolf Pack team that took a stepbackward last season and fin-ished 35th in the nation in scor-ing offense.

“This wasn’t broken,” Ro-lovich said. “We’re just tryingto see how good we can make it.We’re just trying to make it alittle more scary. It’s alreadypretty feared. People alwayshave fear about Nevada be-cause of the offense. Our de-fensive coaches (at Hawaii)told me that. Hopefully webring a little more fear, a littlemore intimidation and wescore as many points as wecan.”

The move to hire an offen-sive coordinator/quarterbackscoach was a stark change for

WOLF PACK FOOTBALL

Pack adds pass-first RolovichFormer Hawaii OC expected to spark Pistol offenseChris Murraycmurray@rgj.com

NickRolovich

See COACH, Page 3D

OUR TAKE

Nick Rolovich got his peanut butter on Chris Ault’s chocolate.Or maybe Ault got his chocolate in Rolovich’s peanut butter.Whatever, the Pistol and the run-and-shoot are two great tastes

that should taste great together.Ault’s announcement Wednesday that he has

hired “Rolo” as the Wolf Pack’s new offensive coor-dinator and quarterbacks coach seems to havecome out of left field. It has, and why shouldn’t it?The week began with Ault’s left-field announce-ment that he was giving up those duties to focus onthe defense.

Ault probably didn’t hire Rolovich, Hawaii’soffensive coordinator in 2010 and 2011, to install theWarriors’ run-and-shoot offense into Ault’s Pistol scheme, but thepossibilities are endless and tantalizing. It was Rolo who incorpo-rated parts of the Pistol into Hawaii’s offense in 2010, and in theirfirst game the Warriors racked up 588 yards in a 49-36 loss toUSC. The Pistol became a bigger part of Hawaii’s offense a yearlater.

This much I know: When these two sit down to discuss theirvisions, I’d like to be a fly on the wall.

You can email the author of this take at dhinxman@rgj.com

‘ROLO’ AND THE PISTOL HAVE GREAT POTENTIAL

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WEDNESDAY’S SCORES

NBAMilwaukee 105, Toronto 99Orlando 102, Miami 89New York 107, Washington 93San Antonio 100, Phila. 90Cleveland 99, L.A. Clippers 92Atlanta 97, Indiana 87Detroit 99, New Jersey 92Chicago 90, New Orleans 67Memphis 85, Minnesota 80Dallas 105, Denver 95Houston 103, Portland 96

NHLBuffalo 6, Boston 0Detroit 4, Edmonton 2Anaheim 3, Carolina 2 (OT)Calgary 4, San Jose 3

No exact formula existsfor beating the Wolf Pack —after all, the team is 19-4 thisseason — but the one thingthat team after team afterteamhastriedto throwatNe-vada this season is a zone de-fense.

And lately, that zone hasthrown the Wolf Pack of-fense out of sync.

When Nevada faces Ha-waii at 9 p.m. tonight, WolfPack coach David Cartersaid he expects his team tosee yet another zone.

As a result, his team hasworked more on its zone of-fense as it looks to reboundfrom its first loss in10 weeks— a 72-68 loss to Idaho on Sat-urday in which the Wolf Packstruggled for good looksagainst the Vandals’ zonescheme.

“We’ve been working on ita little bit more because Ithink we’re going to see itmore,” Carter said. “We hadsome close games againstthe zone and now that we’vedropped one, teams are go-ing to look at that and say,‘Maybe this is the remedy tobeat them.’”

The Wolf Pack made only40.4 percent of its shots overtwo games last week, bothagainst zone schemes. Ha-waii is likely to use its unique

WOLF PACKBASKETBALL

Packlooks tosolvezone ‘D’Nevada coming offfirst loss in 10 weeks

Chris Murraycmurray@rgj.com

See PACK, Page 6D

WOLF PACKBASKETBALLWHO: Nevada (19-4, 8-1 WAC) atHawaii (13-9, 5-3)

WHEN: Today, 9 p.m.

WHERE: Stan Sheriff Center(10,300 capacity) in Honolulu

RADIO/TV: 94.5 FM/KAME

BETTING LINE: Nevada favoredby 1.5 points

Shoving a Shark

The Sharks’ John McCarthy, left, is pushed away from the puck byCalgary defenseman T.J. Brodie during Wednesday’s NHL game. NHLstandings, 5D. JASON O. WATSON/U.S. PRESSWIRE

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