Dick Calvert was UNLV’s public-address announcer for 52 years, and he was on the microphone for multiple other Las Vegas events. He also was an announcer at three World Cups.
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The Fox 5 subsidiary is called Silver State Sports Entertainment Network and will concentrate on sports other than football and men’s basketball.
Hayden Nierman had four saves, going 2-0 with a 4.72 ERA in his one season for UNLV.
As an assistant at Texas, Jean-Paul Hebert coached nine All-Americans and won two national titles. He hopes to achieve that same level of success at UNLV.
Jean-Paul Hebert was named the third full-time coach in the UNLV men’s golf team’s 50-year history.
Administrators, coaches and players with Las Vegas ties offered their thoughts on Thursday’s 50th anniversary of the signing of the landmark Title IX bill.
Ryan Ludwick and Larry Brown, who will be inducted into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame, said Las Vegas is capable of being home to the Oakland Athletics.
“Friends of UNILV” is a third-party program designed to assist UNLV athletes with name, image and likeness deals.
UNLV won 36 games this season and captured the Mountain West regular-season title by three games, but it wasn’t enough to get an at-large berth into the NCAA Tournament.
Joshua Zamora hit two home runs and drove in three runs, helping UNR eliminate top-seeded UNLV on Friday in the Mountain West baseball tournament in San Diego.
Braydon Altorfer hit a home run and drove in four runs and Air Force held on for a victory over the top-seeded Rebels in the first round of the Mountain West baseball tournament.
UNLV, which won the Mountain West regular-season title for the first time since 2014, will play Air Force on Thursday at Tony Gwynn Stadium in San Diego.
Born and raised in Nigeria, Christopher Bulus willed his way to the Division I tennis level and will represent UNLV this week at the NCAA Singles Championship.
The former track and field star thrower is among those who will be part of UNLV’s Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2022 on Saturday.
UNLV senior Veronica Joels shot 3-under 68 in the final round of the women’s NCAA regional at Stanford Golf Course to match the second-lowest round in the 65-player field.