Ioane Tauiliili jogged onto the court for the Chaparral High School volleyball team and briefly glanced toward the stands. It was a road game across town at Spring Valley High, yet Tauiliili’s cheering section was ...
Coach Lindy La Rocque is greeted with a text message when she picks up her phone after every UNLV women’s basketball game. The message is from her dad, Al La Rocque, and usually reads: “Nice win, coach” ...
Robert Smith sits at a table at the Boulder Creek Golf Club with a half-eaten pulled pork sandwich and baked beans in front of him. Smith, the UNLV basketball great and member of the Rebels’ 1977 Final Four team, is posing for photos and greeting visitors — even if it means ...
Graydon Lemke manned his station at the homeless shelter for a community service project not knowing what to expect. As the line of needy Las Vegans were served ...
Mike Wright has gone from being part of state championship basketball programs as a player at Bishop Gorman High School to winning them as coach there. Friday, his championship ways were ...
The game at Orleans Arena had been over for about 30 minutes, but there was still a certain buzz in the air created by one of the greatest high school basketball games in Nevada history. The operator didn’t ...
Sunrise Mountain High football coach Chris Sawyers received a pair of Super Bowl tickets from the Raiders last week. He promptly told his wife, Brandi, that they would be ...
Las Vegas has long arrived as a premiere destination for events, bringing the NFL Draft, Stanley Cup Final, Las Vegas Grand Prix, NCAA Tournament and plenty of notable fights. Yet, this week is different ...
In his first season in Las Vegas, Barry Odom led UNLV to its first nine-win season since 1984, was the Mountain West Coach of the Year and was a finalist for national coach of the year honors.
There was a time last season when Spurs forward Zach Collins was struggling with his outside shooting, and coach Gregg Popovich prohibited him from ...
Being part of the UNLV community helped shape the ideals many of us Rebels still live by. We learned to be part of the solution, welcoming to all, and were given ...
Driving east on Russell Road Saturday morning toward Allegiant Stadium featured something unusual for the commute to a UNLV football game. Traffic. Lots of it.
The Rebels are receiving votes in both major polls, are bowl eligible for the first time since 2013 and have reached the nine-win mark for just the sixth time in program history.
Chris Sawyers has made the drive countless times north on Nellis Boulevard and east onto Hollywood Boulevard on the way to his teaching job at Sunrise Mountain High School. He sees the telltale signs of ...
