Rebel Nation host Cassie Soto and Rebels beat reporter Mark Anderson break down the monumental win over UNR this past Saturday as well as preview the Runnin’ Rebels upcoming games.
Basketball
There could be pressure on Gregg Popovich to duplicate Mike Krzyzewski’s success, but the 69-year-old has been soaking in the experience of coaching players whom he usually draws up game plans to defend.
Host Bryan Salmond is in studio with Las Vegas Aces beat reporter Sam Gordon talking about the season so far and how the Aces have gone from the worst team in the WNBA to just 1.5 games out of the playoffs.
Zeke Upshaw, a swingman for the Detroit Pistons’ G League affiliate who collapsed on the court during a game over the weekend, died Monday.
An MRI exam Saturday showed a Grade 2 sprain of his medial collateral ligament and the team said Curry would be re-evaluated in three weeks.
Bryan Salmond discusses what UNLV has coming up as the regular season draws to a close.
UNLV coach Marvin Menzies and San Diego State’s Brian Dutcher helped build the rivalry between the schools when they were assistants with the Aztecs. The teams meet at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
San Jose State’s basketball team will try to overcome the losses of coach Dave Wojcik and forward Brandon Clarke. New coach Jean Prioleau received a late start after being hired August and has only four returning players.
In one of the biggest crackdowns on the corrupting role of money in college basketball, 10 men were charged Tuesday with using hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to influence star athletes’ choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, financial advisers, even tailors.
Clark senior-to-be Trey Woodbury has become one of the top recruits on the West Coast over the past four months and will look to keep the momentum going this week during the final AAU live period of the year.
In a game that had all the suspense of a historical re-enactment, O’Bannon had 19 of his 26 points in the first quarter as the Gaels rolled to an 83-63 win over Coronado for the Division I state title at UNR’s Lawlor Events Center. It was the fifth consecutive large-school state title for Gorman (25-7).
Coming off their best season in franchise history, the Atlanta Hawks decided it was time for a new uniform designed, in part, to pay homage to the team’s past.
The late North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith said thank you to all of his former players one last time in his will.
Chris Jones pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and sodomy in a Louisville court Thursday.
Andrew Wiggins of Kansas was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft on Thursday night. Duke’s Jabari Parker went second to the Milwaukee Bucks, followed by Kansas center Joel Embiid to the Philadelphia 76ers, Arizona forward Aaron Gordon to Orlando and Dante Exum of Australia to the Utah Jazz.