The UNLV men’s basketball team didn’t make the NCAA Tournament this year, but it still reached the postseason. The Rebels want to take full advantage.
Ed Graney
Ed Graney came to the Review-Journal in May of 2006 as its lead sports columnist. He has covered all major sporting events, including Super Bowls to NBA championships to every Final Four since 1995. Graney also covered the Olympic Games in Beijing (2008) and London (2012). A graduate of San Diego State University, he is a five-time Nevada Sportswriter of the Year and past winner of Associated Press Sports Editors Top 10 for columns. He and wife Bonnie have two children, a son (Tristan) and daughter (Bridget).
A record six Mountain West basketball teams made the NCAA Tournament, but most of the seed lines they found themselves on were questionable.
The Raiders need to do everything possible to strike a deal and secure one of the draft’s top prospects at quarterback this season.
Now that he is the Raiders’ head coach, Antonio Pierce faces some important decisions with his coaching staff and roster, starting with the team’s putrid offense.
Northwestern and Utah, the two teams meeting in the Las Vegas Bowl, faced different kinds of adversity throughout the 2023 season.
Columnist Ed Graney covered it all in 2023. His top five stories of the year included the Henderson Little League team, the Golden Knights and the NFR.
Freshman quarterback Jayden Maiava replaced starter Doug Brumfield in the first quarter Saturday and led the Rebels to a last-second victory over Vanderbilt.
The Henderson All-Stars stayed alive at the Little League World Series with an easy victory over New Albany, Ohio, on Saturday in Williamsport, Pa.
The Golden Knights received goals from three of their four lines in beating the Dallas Stars in overtime of Game 1 of the Western Conference Final on Friday.
The Golden Knights weren’t good at much of anything in a loss to the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday. But don’t expect this veteran team to panic facing a 1-0 deficit.
In the wake of a 6-11 season, Raiders Pro Bowl edge rusher Maxx Crosby said “it’s unacceptable … everything needs to be re-evaluated from everybody.”
With losses to the Chargers and Cardinals to open their season, the Raiders next play at Tennessee, where they need a win to avoid going 0-3.
The NHL trade deadline is Monday, when the Golden Knights likely have to figure out their goalie situation for a playoff stretch run.
On a day in which UNLV honored the great Robert Smith, its basketball team played one of its best games of the season in whipping Colorado State at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The defense again played a major part in an early-season victory, as the Raiders beat Pittsburgh 26-17 at Heinz Field.