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UNLV men’s golf team launches spring season

Given how well his team played in the fall, UNLV men’s golf coach Dwaine Knight is cautiously optimistic his young team will carry over its strong play into the spring.

Livengood, UNLV brace for cuts in state funding

Only a month into his job as UNLV’s athletic director, Jim Livengood is living out of a hotel until he can complete his relocation from Tucson, Ariz.

By any name, AD must prove he’s right choice

The majority opinion is that Jim Livengood won a race in which he finished second, something that might be impossible to verify and yet certainly plausible when you consider how his new boss introduced him Thursday.

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Balancing books crucial for new AD

Jim Livengood admits he’s not a CPA. But he claims to know something about numbers and how to work with budgets.

UNLV settles on Livengood

Jim Livengood wasn’t UNLV’s choice to fill its athletic director vacancy as of Wednesday afternoon, according to sources with knowledge of the hiring process, but by late that night things had changed.

Smatresk still deliberating in search for UNLV AD

UNLV’s search for a new athletic director continued Wednesday, with school president Neal Smatresk saying he was still gathering information and examining contract issues.

Livengood looking ahead

Jim Livengood didn’t wait for anyone to ask.

UFC president weighs in on UNLV AD candidates

Count Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White among those who are not excited about the finalists for the UNLV athletic director position.

UNLV’s AD search, three finalists merit closer look

The search for UNLV’s next athletic director could conclude with an offer to one of three finalists today, which probably explains the festive mood president Neal Smatresk championed at the school’s basketball game Saturday.

Moos seems eager to land UNLV job

Bill Moos caught himself Monday saying “us” about the UNLV athletic department he hopes to run. … “I’m talking like I already have the job,” said the 58-year-old former Oregon athletic director, one of three finalists for UNLV’s AD position. … That remains to be seen. … UNLV president Neal Smatresk could make a decision as soon as tonight, after interviewing the final candidate, Arizona athletic director Jim Livengood.

Livengood definite about wanting UNLV athletic director job

Jim Livengood didn’t wait for anyone to ask, quickly addressing at this morning’s forum his motivation for wanting to become UNLV’s next athletic director. “I’m not interested in retiring. I’m interested in working,” he said. “I am incredibly interested in trying to become (the) new athletic director at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.”
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AD aspirant Johnson has coaches in mind

UNLV athletic director candidate John Johnson did more than describe the type of football coach he would hire if he gets the AD job. He actually named names.

Johnson called tireless worker

The work ethic that John Johnson developed growing up working in his dad’s automotive mechanic shop still serves him well.

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