Our annual version of the top 10 year-end local sports stories as 2015 comes to a close …
UNLV Football
By Ron Kantowski / RJ
This is a Christmas story that has nothing to do with the one that will be shown on TBS on a continuous loop Friday. This one is about UNLV coaches with soft spots in their hearts, and a Rebels basketball player who is much better beyond the 3-point stripe than he is with a Mexican yo-yo, and sick kids in the hospital, and the local sports radio host who brings them all together each year.
By Mark Anderson / RJ
The Mountain West could be heading back to Texas. The conference is considering adding Rice and Texas-El Paso, according to CBSSports.com. Texas Christian played in the Mountain West, but left for the Big 12 Conference in 2012.
By Mark Anderson / RJ
UNLV now apparently has an important ally in its efforts to bring NCAA-sanctioned events back to Las Vegas.
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