With point guard Nikki Wheatley watching in a knee brace, UNLV fails to penetrate Colorado State’s zone defense and loses its Mountain West women’s basketball opener at Cox Pavilion.
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Young Rebels come from nowhere to win WAC title, will play San Diego State in NCAA opener on Thursday.
The UNLV women’s soccer team will play fourth-ranked Brigham Young in a first-round NCAA Tournament game at 6 p.m. Friday in Provo, Utah.
Most of the attention has turned to the possibility of the Oakland Raiders moving to Las Vegas. There isn’t as much interest anymore about who will drive the Zamboni at Las Vegas NHL games.
Tom Kemp, 80, and Len Schweitzer, 81, witnessed UNLV’s first football game in 1968, and they have witnessed just about every UNLV home football game since.
A few minutes before noon Monday at Desert Pines High School, Tim Hough was standing in a long room that contained a long table outside the principal’s office.
When Central Michigan beat Oklahoma State on one of those unfathomable Hail Mary passes, my first thought was this is going to help UNLV on Saturday against the Chippewas.
Long after Jackson State had kicked off to UNLV in the college football season opener, football fans and other people still were sitting in traffic trying to access the parking lots at Sam Boyd Stadium after a fatal accident knocked out traffic signals.
At halftime of Thursday’s UNLV college football season opener, four limber young men sporting the Jackson State colors strutted onto the field around the 50-yard line at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Marking 30 years as a heart transplant recipient, Simon Keith joins former U.S. surgeon general, Nobel Prize winner on White House Organ Summit speaker list.
A big man with a loyal heart, Paul Pucciarelli was one of the longest-tenured members of the UNLV athletic department. He once received a game ball from football coach John Robinson.
I met a couple of more guys one could look up to Monday morning at Lied Library on the UNLV campus. One stood 3 feet, 7 inches. His name is Brandon Hamilton.
“I think you could make the point this was as good a week for UNLV golf as anybody can remember,” said Jack Sheehan, a longtime observer of the Las Vegas golf scene. “In ‘98 they won the (men’s) national championship, but I don’t think they even had a women’s program then. And then Hoffman shakes off the demons …”
When word got out that Chris Beard was going to be the new UNLV basketball coach, a 45-year-old man from Las Vegas named Che’ Jones wrote a letter and attached a resume about his dream. He wants only to be an assistant basketball coach at UNLV.
They made Chris Beard sit there for more than two hours while they discussed whether he was worthy of making $900,000 next season for drawing up X’s and O’s on his now famous dry eraser board, and $1.4 million a couple of seasons down the road, provided he is as successful here as he was at Arkansas-Little Rock last season.
