A toy drive, titled “Tark Toy Drive,” will take place before the Fresno State vs. UNLV men’s basketball game at the Save Mart Center on Saturday in honor of legendary coach Jerry Tarkanian.

The UNLV football team dressed just one tight end at Wyoming for its regular season finale last season.

Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire owner of the Las Vegas Sands casino company, wants to help build a professional-grade stadium at the UNLV campus and is meeting with the owner of the Oakland Raiders.

There is some major news that is rocking the sports world, and Las Vegas.

Casino giant Las Vegas Sands Corp. will lead a consortium of investors planning to build a $1 billion domed stadium on 42 acres near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas that would house the school's football team — and possibly a National Football League franchise.

Las Vegas Sands chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson wants to build a $1 billion domed stadium on the UNLV campus and is meeting with the owner of the Oakland Raiders, company officials confirmed Thursday.

Perhaps nobody was more thrilled Thursday about the proposal by the Las Vegas Sands Corp. to build a $1 billion domed stadium with at least 65,000 seats near UNLV that would be home to the school's football team — and possibly the Oakland Raiders — than Tony Sanchez.

A mixed martial artist, a former major league baseball player, a champion UNLV golf team and a former state athletic commissioner-turned-political kingmaker will be inducted this year into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.

Whenever UNLV fires a basketball coach or a football coach, two things pop into mind when it comes to speculation about their replacements.

Dave Rice knew there was pressure heading into this season. A third straight year of not making the NCAA Tournament would not go over well at UNLV, particularly with all the talent he had accumulated.

UNLV now apparently has an important ally in its efforts to bring NCAA-sanctioned events back to Las Vegas.

There are a lot of things UNLV women's basketball coach Kathy Olivier has to do to get her team ready to play. But coaching effort has not been one of them.