In The News: Intercollegiate Athletics

Washington Post

Las Vegas is still reeling from Sunday’s shooting massacre that left 59 dead, and on Saturday night UNLV will play its first home football game since it happened. The Rebels will be sporting a unique look for their game against No. 19 San Diego State.

Bleacher Report

UNLV assistant hockey coach Nick Robone said his brother, who's a paramedic, and friends attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival saved his live after he suffered a gunshot to the chest during the mass shooting in Las Vegas last Sunday.

ESPN

The selflessness of UNLV assistant hockey coach Nick Robone's brother and friend saved his life amid the carnage of the Las Vegas shooting.

Fox News

UNLV and San Diego State players and fans joined together for a touching tribute to the victims of last week's shooting in Las Vegas by releasing balloons during a moment of silence.

Los Angeles Times

In the wake of a mass shooting that has shaken their city, Nevada-Las Vegas administrators announced that a series of tributes will take place at the school’s Saturday football game against San Diego State.

TMZ

UNLV hockey assistant coach Nick Robone was shot in the chest during the Vegas massacre on Sunday night -- and while he's badly injured, he's fighting like crazy and expected to survive.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Assistant UNLV Hockey Coach Nick Robone, 28, was at the Route 91 Harvest Festival with his younger brother, Anthony, a paramedic with the Henderson Fire Department, and their friends and girlfriends Sunday evening when the shooting broke out.

Las Vegas Sun

The college basketball landscape is currently being rearranged by a pay-for-play scandal that has already touched (and toppled) some of the nation’s elite programs, but at UNLV’s first practice of the season on Saturday, head coach Marvin Menzies expressed confidence that his team won't be affected by the investigation.

Sports Illustrated

A UNLV hockey assistant who was among the more than 500 people injured in a mass shooting during a concert in Las Vegas on Sunday night is out of surgery and is expected to make a full recovery, the UNLV hockey team's account tweeted out in a statement.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Assistant UNLV Hockey Coach Nick Robone, 28, was at the Route 91 Harvest Festival with his younger brother, Anthony, a paramedic with the Henderson Fire Department, and their friends and girlfriends Sunday evening when the shooting broke out.

Las Vegas Sun

UNLV will ask the Nevada Board of Regents to approve a plan that would allow the university to take out a loan to fund the majority of construction costs for the school’s new football practice facility.

ESPN

She’s the one.

According to a recent college sports diversity report by Dr. Richard Lapchick, white men held 78.9 percent of the 128 athletics director positions at FBS schools, white women held 7.0 percent of the jobs and athletics directors of color 14.1 percent. What was missing in the report (titled Assessing Diversity among Campus and Conference Leaders for Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Schools in the 2016-17 Academic Year)?