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Football
UNLV has talented wide receivers, but they haven’t been consistent. They also are trying to develop chemistry with redshirt freshman quarterback Armani Rogers.
The defense got the best of the offense in the early part of Saturday’s UNLV football scrimmage at Sam Boyd Stadium. The offense, though, played better later on.
UNLV has gone years of playing substandard defense. Coaches hope as they enter their third season that they’re beginning to reverse the trend.
The Oakland Raiders and local officials are no further along than they were a year ago in locking down a key aspect of the Las Vegas stadium project: how much it will cost.
UNLV received two more verbal commitments to its 2017 football recruiting class in two-star defensive end Nate Neal and junior college center Sid Acosta.
When the entirety of Sam Boyd Stadium exhaled late Saturday afternoon from the sheer lunacy that had just transpired, UNLV’s football team had earned itself a three-overtime win against favored Wyoming because of a simple but significant element.
The most appealing parallel for the Rebels — 6-15 in two seasons under Tony Sanchez — is that Wyoming went 6-18 in Craig Bohl’s first two seasons before breaking through for seven wins this year.
Salanoa-Alo Wily, a 275-pound sophomore, is one of eight former Hawaii high school players on the Rebels’ roster.
UNLV commit Tariq Hollandsworth, a running back for Sacramento (California) High School, had 220 yards of total offense and four touchdowns Saturday to help the Dragons crush Laguna Creek, 69-10.
UNLV’s football team (1-1) will try to rebound from its 42-21 loss to UCLA in Saturday’s game at Central Michigan. Here’s everything you need to know about the Chippewas.
Tony Samuel is intent on making things much better for the Rebels up front defensively, he being the only change this season to the staff of second-year coach Tony Sanchez.
Coach Tony Sanchez singled out several new standouts in camp, including freshman running back Charles Williams, freshman left tackle Jaron Caldwell, redshirt freshman wide receiver Darren Woods Jr. and sophomore wideout Brandon Presley.
Aside from a few fun facts — including one that coach Tony Sanchez is a country music fan who always ensures the hip-hop-heavy practice playlist includes the stylings of Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash — here are five other things we learned during UNLV’s spring practice.
During UNLV’s first spring practice in full pads Saturday morning, a crowd of about 60 fans huddled near the north end zone on one of the two fields at Rebel Park to watch the team’s hard-hitting, four-on-three Rebel drill.
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