Growing up in Italy near the village of Bellagio on picturesque Lake Como — where actor George Clooney and other celebrities have vacation homes — UNLV swimmer Giacomo Gremizzi always was enamored with American culture and dreamed of attending college in the United States.
Former UNLV baseball coach Fred Dallimore didn’t know if Matt Williams wanted to be a manager or a coach someday when he was an All-America shortstop on Dallimore’s team in 1986. But Dallimore did know that if Williams wanted to manage, he would be good at it because he loved baseball that much.
Encouraged by her mother from a young age to become the best she can be, UNLV senior soccer goalie Kylie Wassell appears to have done just that — on the field and in the classroom.
All-time UNLV home run leader Matt Williams is taking over as manager of the Washington Nationals, CBSSports.com reported on Friday.
Already the fifth UNLV women’s golfer to earn Mountain West Player of the Year honors, Dana Finkelstein has her sights set on bigger game this season.
Since moving from her native Budapest, Hungary, four years ago and enrolling at UNLV, Lucia Batta has experienced plenty of culture shock.
A little more than a year after he was diagnosed with Stage Two Hodgkin’s Lymphoma — which forced him to sit out last season as a medical redshirt — an emotional Ryan Harding returned to action for the Rebels on Sept. 20, starting in net in a 2-1 loss to Cal State Northridge.
It was a sweaty day around the Fourth of July, and UNLV soccer coach Rich Ryerson was sitting inside a fireworks stand at Westcliff Drive and Durango. He was there out of necessity.
Normally, the UNLV men’s golf team’s fall season doesn’t begin until late September. But when coach Dwaine Knight was offered a chance to have his squad play in this weekend’s Carmel Cup, he jumped at it.
Former UNLV track and field athlete Amanda Bingson has advanced to the hammer throw final at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow.
UNLV rising junior Erick Fedde pitched three scoreless innings in the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team’s 16-2 victory over the Metro Collegiate Baseball League of Illinois All-Stars at Geneva, Ill., on Tuesday.
When I heard that Gary Player was going to pose naked for ESPN The Magazine’s annual Body Issue, the first thing that came to mind was those cardboard boxes with pinholes the smart kids made in third grade so they could safely view a solar eclipse.
In 2011, a BBCOR bat reduced the sweet spot from 5 inches to 3 and the exit speed of a ball by 5 percent. In other words, the sweet spot of a baseball bat is deadened. And for some, like UNLV coach Tim Chambers, it has changed the college game for the better.
Forty-eight UNLV athletes earned the 2012-2013 Mountain West Scholar-Athlete Award, the league office announced Monday.
UNLV golfer Kevin Penner was named honorable mention All-America for the second straight season by the Golf Coaches Association of America, which announced the Division I All-America teams on Thursday. The Rebels have had a player earn All-America recognition in 23 of the past 25 years.
