An astounding six of the Mountain West’s 12 football-playing schools are under new leadership at a time of tremendous challenge for the flagship football league among the so-called Group of Five. UNLV’s Tina Kunzer-Murphy, at the helm since July 2013, is one of the senior ADs in the conference.
Things aren’t expected to go well for new UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez when he leads the Rebels out on the field at Sam Boyd Stadium for the first time, at least according to the bookmakers.
Chris Wood, a former UNLV star who was bypassed Thursday in the two-round NBA Draft, agreed to a free-agent deal with the Houston Rockets, according to multiple sources. The Rockets will participate in the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas in July.
Former UNLV star guard Rashad Vaughn was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 17th pick of the first round of Thursday’s NBA Draft. Vaughn’s teammate at UNLV, forward Chris Wood, was not drafted after being considered a late first-round pick a month ago.
The level of disappointment for former UNLV star Chris Wood had to have reached epic levels, and yet this is the risk one takes when deciding to forfeit remaining college eligibility and chase a professional dream.
UNLV freshman John Oda was named honorable mention All-America by the Golf Coaches Association of America on Thursday.
Las Vegas Review-Journal basketball writer Matt Youmans predicts the first round of Thursday’s NBA Draft at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. He thinks former UNLV guard Rashad Vaughn will go to the Los Angeles Lakers with the 27th pick.
Speculation is that former UNLV forward Chris Wood, once a first-round fixture in NBA mock drafts in the media, has fallen into the second round, while his former teammate, guard Rashad Vaughn, appears to be rising into the first round. Both will find out Thursday.
UNLV will host Fresno State on Dec. 30 to kick off its 2015-16 Mountain West men’s basketball conference schedule, which was released Wednesday.
Amid new concerns over symbols of the Confederacy, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid on Tuesday said Nevada should reconsider the “Rebels” nickname for UNLV, a carryover from the days the school more closely identified itself with the South.
