UNLV senior golfer Dana Finkelstein is off to her best start and leading the nationally ranked Rebels. That’s saying something; she earned second team All-American honors and won her second straight Mountain West Golfer of the Year award last season.
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Hello Rebel fans! I attended a fabulous event last weekend at the Mendenhall Center that I wanted to share with you all. It was called “Slam Dunk Social” and it was open to all ladies over the age of 18. The event was a basketball clinic that offered behind-the-scenes experience and a crash course in Runnin’Rebel basketball.
Despite losing four key contributors, coach Tim Chambers thinks this year’s UNLV baseball team is deeper and could make it back to the NCAA Regional tournament.
Hey Rebel fans, I hope you’re all ready for fall because it’s about that time. That also means Runnin’ Rebel basketball is about to begin.
Former Bonanza star Bree Hammel moves to the middle and makes her mark as Rebels start with 13-3 mark.
After three straight losing seasons, the resurgent Rebels are off to an impressive 5-1-1 start this year that earned them a spot in the national rankings (No. 23) for the first time in 22 years.
UNLV senior Dana Finkelstein shot a 9-under-par 210, the second-lowest tournament score in school history, and won the Dick McGuire Invitational individual title Tuesday by three shots at Albuquerque, N.M.
The UNLV men’s soccer team, off to a 5-0-1 start this season, broke into the top 25 polls Tuesday.
Because of continuing construction, UNLV soccer fans are being asked to find another place to park for the Rebels’ game against University of Maryland, Baltimore County on Friday. Try the lots at the Boys and Girls Club or the baseball field.
Lori Harrigan-Mack, former UNLV softball star and three-time Olympic gold medalist, gets back into shape on “The Biggest Loser: Glory Days.” And former Eldorado lineman Howard “Woody” Carter also takes the challenge.
UNLV’s Kyle Mellies was named defensive soccer player of the week in the Western Athletic Conference on Monday.
School is back in session! It seems like the summer flew by, but it also seems like forever since we’ve watched some football. Finally the NFL kicks off this week, and college football kicked off last weekend.
The Rebels are picked to finish second in the WAC preseason poll. And thanks to benefactors, they have improved facilities — even if the parking lot isn’t finished.
Simon Keith, the former UNLV soccer star, is a survivor of a life-and-death situation. In 1986, when he was 21, he underwent heart transplant surgery. Only he didn’t tell anybody, other than his coaches and a few others who had a need to know.
UNLV soccer fans will have to park in the baseball parking lots and walk to Peter Johann Memorial Field at the start of the season because of construction to add parking spaces at the soccer stadium.