A handful of players with Las Vegas ties are expected to be selected in the NFL draft this week at Caesars Palace.
UNLV
ESPN2 will televise UNLV’s game at Arizona State at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 11. It’s the eighth nationally televised game announced for the Rebels for the 2021 season.
UNLV’s first six opponents are against teams that competed in bowls last season. The Rebels, though, get a break with two well-placed bye weeks.
Jalen Dixon, who attends Seattle’s O’Dea High School, also received scholarship offers from UNR, Idaho, Eastern Washington and Portland State.
Cassie Soto and Mark Anderson discussed UNLV’s losses at UNR and to San Diego State over the past week in the latest taping of Rebel Nation.
UNLV has signed six players and has three scholarship seniors, so the players are auditioning for the 2020-21 season as well as this one.
UNLV was expected to move into Allegiant Stadium full time next season, but its games against Louisiana Tech on Sept. 5 and Arizona State on Sept. 12 might be played at Sam Boyd Stadium.
UNLV beat Wyoming 69-66 in three overtimes in 2016 at Sam Boyd Stadium. They meet again Saturday in Laramie, Wyoming, in what is expected to be a much lower-scoring game.
A position-by-position look at UNLV’s game at Wyoming at 5 p.m. Saturday.
UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez’s radio show begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday and will be broadcast on KWWN (1100 AM, 100.9 FM).
Major questions face the contenders for the Mountain West divisional races, creating an opportunity for a school picked lower in the standings to move up.
Mike Thomas, one of the greatest running backs in UNLV history whose career rushing record stood for almost four decades, died Friday in Houston after a long illness.
This is a make-or-break season for UNLV coach Tony Sanchez, who has several issues to address as training camp opens Friday at Rebel Park.
South Dakota State’s T.J. Otzelberger has been hired as the UNLV men’s basketball coach. He went 70-33 in three seasons with the Jackrabbits, making the NCAA Tournament in his first two years and the NIT this season.
Jordan Caroline and twins Caleb and Cody Martin combined to score 67 points to lead No. 12 UNR to an 89-73 victory over UNLV on Wednesday night at Lawlor Events Center in Reno.
