UNLV’s Khem Birch courageously played through pain and laid it all on the line. But the Rebels went out with a whimper anyway, getting knocked out of the Mountain West tournament Friday night while resembling a dispirited and dysfunctional mess in the process.
A colorful character, Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington dropped a half-dozen f-bombs in rapid-fire fashion while conducting an interview with the Review-Journal at Cashman Field last season during the city’s annual Big League Weekend.
In a game during which San Diego State was determined to take away UNLV’s big-man tandem of Khem Birch and Roscoe Smith, the Rebels’ guards had an opportunity to seize the moment and carry the team into the Mountain West tournament championship game. Didn’t happen. Never had a chance.
Not that New Mexico needed any extra motivation. But when San Diego State’s win over UNLV went final, the Lobos knew what they had to do.
A baseball team’s third batter is typically the best all-around hitter and is the most trusted among his coaches and teammates.
Growing up in Las Vegas, Kris Bryant was in awe of the players he saw at Cashman Field on Big League Weekend.
T.J. White and Dylan Ellis hit grand slams to lead the UNLV baseball team to an 18-2 Mountain West victory Friday night over host San Jose State.
A group of supporters gathered around Johny Hendricks late Friday afternoon in Dallas and erupted in cheer as if he had won the Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight title. He hadn’t.
