UNLV professor Michael Pravica explains how physics relate to modern day driving, seat belts, teen car stunts, traffic crashes, and more.

Greg Griffin said it’s happened “a million times.” He’s probably exaggerating a tad, given he’s been driving a cab for only a few decades. “Well, it happens a lot,” he said.

UNLV is winning conference championships and making postseason appearances at a near historic rate, capturing four league titles last spring and sending three teams this past fall to the postseason.

The gifts have been opened, and now it’s time for the holiday cleanup.

When UNLV history Professor Gene Moehring packed his bags in 1976 and left New York for a new job in Las Vegas, he traded a highly developed urban and financial center for a place where history was very much a work in progress.

The word unique gets tossed around without much attention toward its meaning. It doesn’t mean merely rare or unusual. It means singular. In Nevada, Michael Frazier is unique.

When UNLV went looking for a men’s basketball coach in January, the Rebels eschewed a search firm and did it themselves, and the following four months were a messy, embarrassing process that tarnished the program and university.

For the first time, UNLV plans to send a group of students to Cuba. The trip is part of an educational experience through a business program on campus. "I'm super excited," said Bruce Gil, a student at UNLV.

Josh Jackson squared up for an open corner 3-point shot, pump-faked a defender into paralysis and drove the baseline before registering some impressive air time on a one-handed dunk.