NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says it’s time for a new approach to betting on sports.
Basketball
If he misses home, Rashad Vaughn can make a phone call to his family, just as he did early this week. The weather report from Minneapolis made him appreciate where he is now.
A crazy theory recently was floated. The theory, turned into a question, is this: Did coach John Calipari collect so much talent this season that Kentucky might be good enough to beat a bad NBA team?
Derrick Jones is joining Jalen Poyser in a UNLV basketball recruiting class that suddenly shapes up as a formidable one on a national level for 2015.
The Runnin’ Rebels are back with eight new players and lofty expectations. Here are some of the players you should watch out for as this season progresses.
There is another slogan. It’s not about running this time.
Kathy Olivier has been coaching basketball long enough to know that when something doesn’t work, change it. The UNLV women’s coach starts her seventh season at her alma mater knowing it’s time to make a serious run at landing a spot in the NCAA Tournament.
Los Angeles Clippers player Blake Griffin is facing a misdemeanor battery charge in Las Vegas, court documents show.
A Michigan freshman who survived two plane crashes that killed his parents and siblings scored the first point of his college career in the Wolverines’ 86-43 exhibition victory Monday night over Wayne State University.
UNLV used a 29-6 run over a 7:21 span in the first half to take a commanding 43-24 lead as the Lady Rebels defeated Dixie State 100-67 in the team’s lone exhibition game Monday at Cox Pavilion.
Senior guard Norman Powell led UCLA to a lopsided win in a closed scrimmage Saturday, teaching UNLV’s freshmen a lesson in the process.
A basketball rivalry could be re-emerging on the West Coast, due mostly to Steve Alford being in his second season at UCLA.
With at least a 4-inch height advantage over the tallest player on the opposing team, UNLV sophomore Chris Wood could have been expected to dominate, and the 6-foot-11-inch forward did exactly that.
What the Rebels encountered Wednesday — a 100-65 victory against an outfit named Florida National before a heavily inflated announced gathering of 10,253 at the Thomas & Mack Center — was an exhibition is every sense of the word.
A self-described “mama’s boy,” Jordan Cornish is no pushover for anyone else. He is a product of inner-city New Orleans, where the streets imprinted a mean streak in his personality.