Through many years and many UNLV athletic directors, the athletic department had the luxury of knowing it could be bailed out by the university at the end of the fiscal year. Soon, that no longer will be the case.
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Asking “what if” can be tantalizing and maddening. Las Vegas sports fans know the impact of that question.
Baseball’s winter meetings will return to Las Vegas in 2018 at Mandalay Bay. The resort also will host the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics annual convention in 2020 and 2022.
UNLV’s athletic department is running about a $4.9 million deficit because of shortfalls in the school’s top two revenue-producing sports — men’s basketball and football.
UNLV hired Collegiate Sports Associates to conduct its search for an athletic director. Also, Nancy Rapoport, special counsel to UNLV president Len Jessup, will serve as chairwoman of the search committee.
Brooke Johnson scored 20 points to help UNLV hold off Boise State 58-55 in a Mountain West women’s basketball game Wednesday in Boise, Idaho.