A position-by-position breakdown of UNLV’s game against Air Force at 7 p.m. Friday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Mark Anderson
Reporter: UNLV football and basketball
Email: manderson@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 387-2914
Mark Anderson has been at the Review-Journal since January 1999. He covered UNLV football for 17 seasons before moving to the men’s basketball beat in January 2016, and was president of the Football Writers Association of America in 2016. Anderson returned to the football beat in 2017 and still covers men’s basketball. Before coming to the R-J, he covered UNR football for five seasons at the Reno Gazette-Journal and was the high school sports reporter for the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat from 1988-94. He is a native of Tallahassee and a graduate of the University of Florida.
UNLV has given up 109 points the past two games after allowing a 27.8 average over the first four weeks. The Rebels need to return to prior form with Air Force visiting Sam Boyd Stadium on Friday.
UNLV point guard Noah Robotham had the chance to accept a scholarship, but turned it down so that it could help with recruiting. He was one of the Rebels’ representatives at Mountain West basketball media day on Tuesday.
UNLV was picked sixth in the Mountain West media basketball poll, announced Tuesday at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. No Rebels were selected to the preseason all-conference team.
UNLV running back Lexington Thomas is probable for Friday’s game against Air Force at Sam Boyd Stadium. He suffered a head injury on Saturday at Utah State.
Battle Born Fencing Club has four competitors in the world championships in Italy. A fifth Las Vegan from a different club also is competing.
Sexual harassment allegations triggered an investigation of Eric Toliver, then-compliance director for UNLV’s athletic department, by an outside law firm earlier this year. Toliver quit Feb. 9 and hasn’t been heard from since.
Star senior running back Lexington Thomas went out early in the third quarter of the 59-28 defeat to Utah State with a head injury.
Three takeaways from UNLV’s 59-28 loss to Utah State on Saturday at Maverik Stadium.
UNLV took an early 7-0 lead, and then it was all Utah State. The Aggies blew away the Rebels to win 59-28.
Seth Robinson, a three-star linebacker at Saguaro High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, committed to UNLV.
UNLV was a roughly three-touchdown underdog last season at Fresno State, but beat the Bulldogs 26-16. Now the Rebels play at Utah State as 27-point underdogs.
Breaking down UNLV’s football game at Utah State on Saturday.
UNLV was a run-first offense with Armani Rogers at quarterback. Now with Rogers injured and not playing, the Rebels are trying to figure out exactly what is their offensive identity.
Utah State quarterback Jordan Love made his starting debut last season against UNLV and became Mountain West offensive player of the week. He has established himself among the conference’s best quarterbacks this season.
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