UNLV Hires Two Assistants

UNLV coach Mike Sanford says he has filled his 2009 coaching staff by hiring coaches for the team’s running backs and linebackers. The team said Tuesday that Sanford has hired running backs coach DeAndre Smith and linebackers coach Jed Stugart (STEW’-gurt). Smith spent last season as the running backs coach for New Mexico after three seasons at Miami of Ohio. Stugart was previously head coach of NAIA school Nazarene University in Olathe, Kan., for three seasons. His team was 26-7 during those three years. – San Francisco Chronicle