UNLV will play 27 games this basketball season on an ESPN channel, CBS Sports Network, AT&T SportsNet or the Big Ten Network.
Mark Anderson
Mark Anderson has been at the Review-Journal since January 1999. He covered UNLV football for 17 seasons before moving to the men’s basketball beat in January 2016, and was president of the Football Writers Association of America in 2016. Before coming to the R-J, he covered UNR football for five seasons at the Reno Gazette-Journal and was the high school sports reporter for the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat from 1988-94. He is a native of Tallahassee and a graduate of the University of Florida.
Dan Ayala, who owns the highest winning percentage among UNLV women’s basketball coaches, died Monday in hospice care at 82. Ayala coached the Lady Rebels from 1975 to 1980, going 109-23 for an 82.7 winning percentage.
UNLV has eight sacks through three games. The Rebels had 11 sacks all of last season.
UNLV junior defensive back Ty’Jason Roberts suffered a spinal fracture in Saturday’s 46-17 victory over Prairie View AM. He underwent what was termed successful surgery.
Three takeaways from UNLV’s 46-17 victory over Prairie View AM on Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
UNLV quarterback Armani Rogers rushed for four touchdowns in UNLV’s 46-17 victory over Prairie View AM on Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium. That set a school record for a quarterback and tied the mark for any position.
Prairie View A&M invested in a new stadium and athletics facility that opened two years ago. The Panthers played UNLV on Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
UNLV plays Prairie View AM at 7 p.m. Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium, a step down in level to the Football Championship Subdivision. But it’s not a step down in competition compared to last week’s 52-24 victory over Texas-El Paso.
Five receivers and two tight ends have caught passes for UNLV in its first two games, and junior Darren Woods Jr. and freshman Tyleek Collins lead the team with three receptions each.
The original plan was for tradition-rich Grambling State to play UNLV on Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Prairie View A&M running back Dawonya Tucker has rushed for more than 200 yards in each of the past two football games. UNLV plays the Panthers at 7 p.m. Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
New Jersey point guard Josh Pierre-Louis committed to UNLV’s basketball team on Sunday. That could complete the Rebels’ 2018-19 recruiting class.
Three takeaways from the UNLV football team’s 52-24 victory over Texas-El Paso on Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
UNLV rushed for 414 yards in defeating Texas-El Paso 52-24 on Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium. Running back Lexington Thomas and quarterback Armani Rogers each rushed for more than 100 yards.