Former Virginia head coach Mike London once survived having a gun pointed at his forehead when he was a detective; saved daughter’s life with long shot bone marrow transplant.
UNLV
Danny Musovski, a senior forward from Henderson, has been named to the MAC Hermann Watch List for the second straight year. He is the first UNLV soccer player to be so honored.
A free instructional session started by former UNLV football coach Mike Sanford is in its ninth season and more popular than ever.
In 1984, the Boyd Gaming Corp. wrote a check for $1.2 million that paid for a new playing surface at the old Silver Bowl football stadium that changed Las Vegas’ sports landscape.
The local U.S. Open qualifier was Monday at SouthShore Golf Club at Lake Las Vegas in Henderson, a course that is spectacular and picturesque but perhaps better suited for bighorn sheep.
Public address announcer Dick Calvert was inducted into UNLV’s Athletics Hall of Fame on Thursday under the heading of “distinguished contributor,” which is what he has been for the past 47 years.
On Monday, UNLV signed the last recruit of its 2017 football class. His name is Thaddeus Thatcher. He is 9 years old, and for the past two years has been fighting t-cell leukemia/lymphoma.
On Tuesday, UNLV announced the hiring of Desiree Reed-Francois, a former deputy athletic director at Virginia Tech, and put her in charge of Sam Boyd Stadium and the Thomas & Mack Center.
Alyssa Arnett, a sophomore all-conference diver, received a wedding proposal from the high-rise platform at the Mountain West championships. She agreed to take the plunge.
The Las Vegas Outlaws are recalled in “This Was The XFL,” a documentary by Charlie Ebersol, son of XFL co-founder Dick Ebersol, that debuts Thursday.
