What happens with the four remaining Pac-12 schools could determine which conference UNLV eventually calls home.
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The UNLV women’s basketball team clinched its second consecutive Mountain West championship, cruising past San Jose State on Thursday night.
A former UNLV baseball standout, Bryson Stott and fellow Las Vegas native Bryce Harper have helped lead the Phillies to the World Series against Houston.
UNLV is 21-11 overall and in first place in the Mountain West, but the Rebels probably will need to win the conference tournament to make the NCAA Tournament.
On April 8, 1994, former UNLV outfielder Gus Kennedy hit a solo shot, a two-run blast, a three-run dinger and a grand slam at New Mexico State.
The university remained in-house when replacing Desiree Reed-Francois, hiring interim athletic director Erick Harper in the full-time role.
Keith Whitfield as university president is now taxed with replacing Desiree Reed-Francois, who departed for Missouri of the Southeastern Conference.
Kevin Higgins’s son Kade is excelling as a freshman at Arizona State, but UNLV won the recent game, 10-9.
It’s much easier — not to mention cheaper — for UNLV to ditch a mascot than the nickname the university has been known by since the mid-1950s.
Iconic UNLV broadcaster, public address announcer Dick Calvert returns home after hospital stay but concedes recovery still has a long way to go.
The 36th-ranked Trojans shot a final-round 3-over 291 and finished at 3-under 861, two strokes ahead of eighth-ranked Texas. UNLV took 13th in the 15-team event.
Landing a coach with supreme name recognition is exactly the path UNLV should travel in football, one that could ultimately affect all other sports in a positive manner.
Former UNLV pitcher Erick Fedde helped the Washington Nationals win several games this season, appearing in 21 and starting 12. He finished 4-2 with a 4.50 ERA.
Review-Journal columnist Ed Graney takes a close look at the career, on and off the field, of the former Bishop Gorman, CSN and UNLV coach, who died Sunday evening at age 54.
Former UNLV soccer star Simon Keith received the gift of life from Roger Groves’ son, a schoolboy soccer player in Wales who died of a brain hemorrhage on the field in 1986.