UNLV Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Tina Kunzer-Murphy has agreed to a six-month contract extension and will continue to lead the department until the conclusion of the 2016-17 academic year in June, according to a news release.

Tuesday was a huge day for the UNLV Rebels. The athletic department received the largest single donation to its sports programs in school history.

From the day Tony Sanchez was hired as UNLV coach, he’s said that building an on-campus football facility was essential to moving the program forward and having success.

Tony Sanchez didn’t know anything about the Fertitta family the first time he spoke to brothers Frank and Lorenzo, who recently sold the UFC for $4 billion. It was 2009, in between classes Sanchez was teaching at California High in San Ramon, Calif., and Sanchez was on the phone with the Fertitta brothers and a few other people discussing the football coaching job at Bishop Gorman High.

UNLV's football program has received the largest single gift in its history and will put the $10 million from the Fertitta family toward a new training facility.

Say, in a perfect world, the UNLV football program moves into a new stadium it shares with an NFL team. And, say in that perfect world, UNLV’s nationally known basketball program somehow recovers from its current state of rebuilding under Marvin Menzies’ watchful eye.

The Big 12’s decision to explore expansion has come at an opportune time for UNLV.

To describe an Olympic loss as "hard" is an understatement, but it’s the first word that comes to BMXer Connor Fields’ mind when describing his seventh-place finish in the London Games in 2012.

Since the last time UNLV and Duke met on the court, the Rebels have had nine different full-time head coaches. The Blue Devils still have Mike Krzyzewski, and as the teams look ahead to their first meeting since 1991, Coach K reflected on the back-to-back NCAA Tournament meetings that for many defined college basketball in the '90s.

Runnin' Rebel fans have waited 25 years to finally face the Duke Blue Devils again.

A rivalry will be renewed when UNLV plays Duke on Saturday, Dec. 10 in the first college basketball game to be played at the new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas as part of the fourth-annual MGM Grand Showcase, which benefits Coaches vs. Cancer.

You see them at Red Rock and Mount Charleston and everywhere else the impossibly fit and physically active play, those guys and gals who give us ordinary schlubs both the incentive to stay active and the frustration of knowing that we’ll never be like them.