Chris Beard, 43, agreed to take the job on March 27, but the process was drawn out. He officially will be introduced at a news conference at 3 p.m. Friday at the Mendenhall Center.
UNLV
Max Smith’s two-run single in the ninth inning lifted UNLV to a 7-6 victory over San Diego State in a Mountain West baseball game Friday in San Diego.
That sequence of plays took place at UNLV’s practice Friday morning at Rebel Park, where crowd noise blared from speakers and the energy was palpable as the team geared up for its annual spring game, scheduled for noon Saturday at Johann Memorial Field.
Another player left UNLV when news broke Friday morning that Chris Obekpa was departing early for the NBA Draft.
