Kelli Thompson hit a jumper with two seconds left, lifting the UNLV women’s basketball team to a 68-66 victory over Virginia Commonwealth on Saturday night at Cox Pavilion in the first round of the Duel in the Desert.
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As tempting as it is to daydream about an impending trip to Hawaii, junior guard Derrick Jasper insists UNLV’s basketball team is not looking beyond tonight.
UNLV’s search for a new athletic director dragged out, but the man now running the department apparently is making sure the search for a new football coach is handled quickly.
The majority opinion is that Jim Livengood won a race in which he finished second, something that might be impossible to verify and yet certainly plausible when you consider how his new boss introduced him Thursday.
Long-range shooters come in all shapes and sizes. UNLV junior Matt Shaw, a 6-foot-8-inch, 240-pound forward, can be a big threat far from the basket.
Jim Livengood admits he’s not a CPA. But he claims to know something about numbers and how to work with budgets.
Jim Livengood wasn’t UNLV’s choice to fill its athletic director vacancy as of Wednesday afternoon, according to sources with knowledge of the hiring process, but by late that night things had changed.
UNLV’s search for a new athletic director continued Wednesday, with school president Neal Smatresk saying he was still gathering information and examining contract issues.
A fixture in UNLV’s starting lineup the past two seasons, junior guard Tre’Von Willis will spend his second straight game in a backup role. One reason for that: Willis is bothered by a sore back.
Experiments can be dangerous. My son was 2 when he tried one at home, only to discover sticking a penny into an electrical outlet wasn’t as enjoyable as watching “Barney.” To this day, nine years later, the kid lives in a perpetual state of bed hair.
CEDAR CITY, Utah — Slow starts to games seem to be a theme for UNLV, and sophomore Chace Stanback has been looking to pick up the pace himself. … A strong start by Stanback and a second-half surge led by Tre’Von Willis carried the Rebels to a 77-59 victory over Southern Utah at Centrum Arena, where a majority of the 4,331 fans were backing the visitors.
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