In the vacuum that was 12 college football games, Tony Sanchez saw progress.
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Cisco (Texas) College quarterback Richard Lagow tweeted Thursday he will decide Monday which school he chooses.
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.
The anger at the time was palpable, but such feelings usually ease as the months click by. This is the week, though, the memories come flooding back for UNLV’s football players, who believed they had a victory taken away last season at Hawaii.
Peni Vea wasn’t alone in his desire to get off the rock, one of many born and raised in Hawaii who covet a chance to experience another place, another sense of culture and tradition. No, really.
The Gonzalez twins — UNLV sophomores Dakota and Dylan — have more than 1.5 million combined followers on Instagram. If their basketball skills are anywhere near as explosive as their social media numbers, the Lady Rebels might defy expectations and produce their first winning season in four years.
The graduation rates for UNLV’s athletes improved over the previous year.
Five players to watch as UNLV’s football team prepares to play Hawaii at 3 p.m. Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
They were lining up the NASCAR trucks for Saturday’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway when a guy wearing a Route 66 shirt in the media center noticed one of the TVs had been switched. Instead of the race broadcast, it was showing the Arizona State-UCLA football game.
The Fremont Cannon will be taken through UNLV’s campus on Monday morning for a painting ceremony. It will be taken from Lied Athletic Complex at 11 a.m. to the Student Union, where the red paint will be sprayed on the cannon at 11:15.
He still hasn’t lost in Reno. That’s the quip of the weekend for Tony Sanchez, the UNLV head coach whose teams at Bishop Gorman also crushed Reno-based high schools.
Say this for Tony Sanchez: He has spread the word about UNLV football like a politician might his platform around Iowa cornfields.
Almost every measurable edge goes to Northern Illinois, and the first UNLV football game under coach Tony Sanchez very well could become one to forget. But the Rebels have one big advantage going into today’s 4:30 p.m. PDT game at Huskie Stadium.
Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson said the conference plans to keep its basketball tournaments in Las Vegas, but he is exploring a possible change of venue after 2016, when a contract with the Thomas & Mack Center expires.
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