One of the starters on UNLV’s men’s basketball team has entered the transfer portal, becoming the sixth player on last season’s squad to do so.
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New UNLV coach Dan Mullen conducted his first spring football practice Thursday and loved being around his players.
Nick Kurtz, the fourth overall pick by the Athletics in last year’s Major League Baseball draft, is beginning the 2025 season Friday with the Aviators.
Josh Pastner won the news conference Wednesday. Now, the question is whether the coach can restore the UNLV men’s basketball team to its winning ways.
New UNLV basketball coach Josh Pastner will need financial support from the university’s NIL collective if he wants to turn the program around.
Liam McNeeley’s 3-pointer for UConn as time expired in the Huskies’ loss to Florida on Sunday didn’t affect the point spread, but it sure affected the total.
Favorites won 25 of 32 games while going 19-13 against the spread in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. There were a few upsets, but no true bracket busters.
Sportsbooks loved No. 12 seed McNeese State, which stunned Clemson as a 7-point underdog. But books hated the Drake, a popular underdog and that upset Missouri.
NCAA Tournament betting lines moved quickly after the South Point sportsbook posted point spreads on the first 32 games and took bets of up to $10,000 each.
Kevin Kruger is as nice a guy as you’ll meet, but his UNLV teams never made the NCAA Tournament in his four seasons as coach, and that cost him his job Saturday.
In a time of the transfer portal and players moving from one program to the next, UNLV needs to quickly make a call on Kevin Kruger’s status as basketball coach.
This is who they are now, all battered and bruised, a basketball team being pushed to its physical limits. UNLV doesn’t have any choice. This is the hand it has been dealt.
Kevin Kruger has led a UNLV men’s basketball team beset by injuries this season and has held things together to win six of the past eight games.
Maxx Crosby needed to buy into coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Spytek’s long-term plans before signing an extension. He liked what he heard.
The Golden Knights defeated the New Jersey Devils on Sunday thanks to defense and goaltending in what could be a perfect playoff recipe for the team.