The UNLV basketball team spent some time with some of their youngest fans Tuesday morning.

Show a kid a college library or on-campus housing building and he might shrug his shoulders. Throw some virtual reality goggles on that kid and show him a 360-degree view of that same building and you get a different reaction. That’s one way UNLV football is trying to use technology to its advantage on the recruiting trail.

It's easy to say that winning Friday night would mean UNLV takes needed momentum into its bye week.

With a career that marks cheers from thousands of fans, two NBA championship rings and a Sixth Man of the Year award, the recent buzz about Lamar Odom has been anything but a celebration.

For nearly a decade, the sports dietitian Sarah Wick ran a one-woman operation at Ohio State. She oversaw the eating habits of 1,000 athletes, most of whom paid little attention to her efforts.

The Fremont Cannon is due back from the university paint center Friday and it’s expected to return to Sam Boyd Stadium on Saturday after a 10-month vacation up north.

It’s not a rivalry on the level of USC versus UCLA or Alabama versus Auburn.

About 1,500 students and officials showed up at the UNLV Student Union this morning to watch the football team paint the Fremont Cannon red.

He still hasn’t lost in Reno.
That’s the quip of the weekend for Tony Sanchez, the UNLV head coach whose teams at Bishop Gorman also crushed Reno-based high schools.

Sweet, sweet victory for our Rebels over their biggest rivals. In just a few hours cans of red and white paint will be in use as one of college football's coolest rivalry trophies heads back to UNLV.

The mayors of Las Vegas and Reno are wagering the wearing of their home team colors when Nevada's two university football rivals take to the field on Saturday in Reno.

This week is so important to the Rebels that two of them sat in Sunday’s team meeting shirtless. Wait, let’s go back for a second.