While some college basketball coaches sit on a hot seat, Gregg Marshall occupies the opposite seat. He’s a hot commodity, mentioned each spring as a candidate for major-conference job openings yet never lured away from this quiet Kansas town.
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NBA icon LeBron James has inked a lifetime contract with Nike, according to published reports.
A month ago, UNLV was nowhere near the radar in either Top 25 college basketball poll. After upsetting Indiana and Oregon, the Rebels still are unranked, but at least they do appear on the radar screen.
On a night where the UNLV men’s basketball team started off hot from 3-point range, it was only fitting that Ike Nwamu’s 3-point dagger with a minute and 30 seconds left put the game away for the Rebels.
Ike Nwamu nailed five 3-pointers and scored a season-high 19 points to lift the Rebels to an 80-69 victory over No. 16 Oregon on Friday at the MGM Grand Garden.
The Rebels are slight underdogs when they host No. 16 Oregon tonight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Game time is 8:00 p.m. PT.
Kobe Bryant, who is retiring after 20 years with the Los Angeles Lakers at the end of the NBA season, would be very happy to give an encore performance at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Even critics of the NBA must be entertained by the Golden State Warriors’ thrill ride and the shooting exploits of Stephen Curry. Bookmakers are getting swept up in it all, too.
It’s not a game about “bad blood,” in the words of Ben Carter. He transferred home, any hard feelings have passed and life is good now.
When basketball student sections across the country copied the UNLV Rebellion’s idea of a life-sized cut-out player, Las Vegas artist Sean Clauretie decided to design something “nobody else could replicate.”
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim will begin serving a nine-game suspension immediately after the NCAA ended a review lasting nearly eight months and upheld the punishment with modifications on Thursday.
A year ago, Tristan Clark could be seen playing basketball at Judson High, a public school located 15 miles northeast of San Antonio.
A highly touted prospect in high school, and a starter as a UNLV freshman, Goodluck Okonoboh probably never envisioned he would be playing a shrinking role as a sophomore.
Marshall assistant coach Chris Duhon was suspended by the university after being arrested for drunk driving on Monday.
Kobe’s Bryant’s final NBA game is four months away, but ticket prices are already soaring.
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