Every five years or so, someone else is hired to assume the role of UNLV head football coach. Marcus Arroyo is next up.
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Marc-Andre Fleury said he doesn’t want to be a distraction to the Golden Knights, but that’s exactly what he and his longtime agent became through a pointed tweet.
About to enter his seventh season, Raiders quarterback Derek Carr finally has his deep threat. Now we get to see if he is the issue or other factors are at play. Or both.
Connor Fields is the Green Valley High alumnus whose gold-medal triumph in Rio four years ago captivated Las Vegas.
If his racing career ended tomorrow and Chastain never found another ride, he would gladly return to a life sowing watermelon seeds.
New York has won two straight and welcomes the Raiders to MetLife Stadium on Sunday, a Jets team that after eight weeks looked like one of the worst in the NFL.
The Rebels will have to prove history and the Mountain West preseason media poll wrong, a forecast that has UNLV finishing fifth in the six-team West Division.
Team owner Bill Foley and his management team have done an unbelievable job creating a place that players want to be for the long term, the latest being center William Karlsson.
History has defined the Golden Knights since their inception. But this is the kind they won’t soon forget. This kind will be talked about for decades to come, and not in a flattering manner.
The NHL trade deadline will arrive Monday, and we will see what, if anything, Knights general manager George McPhee has done to a roster that sits third in the Pacific Division.
Vegas reaches the All-Star break third in the Pacific Division at 62 points, just six fewer than it had at this time last year, a push made when Nate Schmidt returned from a 20-game suspension.
UNLV’s basketball team on Tuesday night knocked off another conference team from distance, and in the process swept the regular-season series from New Mexico for the first time in eight years with a 74-58 victory.
As bad as they have been hit with injuries, as much as goalie Marc-Andre Fleury has played, as often as they have been on the road, the team finds itself in a playoff spot within the Pacific Division.
Nate Schmidt has returned to the Golden Knights and the team is better for it, but perhaps no individual will benefit from his presence more than Miller, whose first goal of the season on Friday finished the scoring of a 2-0 victory against Calgary.
One of the main problems with UNLV athletics, perhaps the central one, is the fact it either doesn’t realize or accept its place in today’s world of collegiate athletics.
