Las Vegas sports radio talk show host Ken Thomson and UNLV players brightened the days of sick kids with their annual holiday visit to Sunrise Children’s Hospital.
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After being fired by UNLV last week, Tony Sanchez suggested college football coaches who jump directly from high school might be doomed to fail.
Tony Sanchez showed class in facing the music and the media after being fired as UNLV’s football coach following five losing seasons — unlike Mike Sanford when he was ousted by the school.
UNLV defensive tackle Kolo Uasike joins baseball slugger Pete Alonso in providing a fading Las Vegas sports facility with a memorable final act.
Todd Floyd played football on three levels at Sam Boyd Stadium. The stadium on the edge of Las Vegas will be closing soon, but the memories will last a lifetime.
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.
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.
The Pac-12 Coast to Coast Challenge means there will be fewer opportunities for mid-major schools such as UNLV to enhance their NCAA Tournament positioning.
Cle Edwards died Saturday of kidney and heart failure. He was 71. He never left Las Vegas after becoming one of Jerry Tarkanian’s trusted assistants.
The start of fall practice reminds longtime observers of the UNLV football program of when prison inmates played a significant role in training camp.
At UNLV, Hunkie Cooper played six positions — quarterback, running back, wide receiver, defensive back, punt returner, kickoff returner — before becoming one of the Arena Football League’s all-time best players.
Brothers Jason and Josh Sharman were high school tennis and baseball stars at Desert Oasis High. They’ll soon be reunited as baseball players at UNLV.
The bar tops and other furnishings at Hardway 8 in downtown Henderson are made from bleachers from the old Las Vegas Convention Center — home of the Hardway Eight, UNLV’s first Final Four team.
The UNLV men’s golf team has qualified for its 31st consecutive appearance in the NCAA regionals, a national record and one more consecutive national championship berth than the Kansas basketball team.
During his 38 years in college athletics, Jerry Koloskie went from taping Larry Johnson’s ankles to being UNLV’s interim athletic director to shoveling himself out of three feet of snow.