- Sports Illustrated says Rebels football will go 8-4 this season
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By Rob Miech
· August 13, 2009 · 7:33 PM
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Sports Illustrated is the latest magazine that’s bullish, or at least positive, about the upcoming UNLV football season. In its college football preview issue, which hits the newsstands Monday, SI tabs UNLV to finish 8-4 and in fourth place in the nine-team Mountain West Conference. TCU, Utah and BYU are all picked ...
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- Wink Adams to play hoops in Turkey
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By Rob Miech
· August 13, 2009 · 4:21 PM
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Former UNLV shooting guard Wink Adams has signed a one-year contract to play basketball in Turkey, according to the European hoops Web site Sportando.net. Adams will play for Oyak Renault in Bursa, Turkey, in the Beko Basketball League. Oyak will play in the top division for a fourth consecutive season in 2009-10. ...
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- Tark recuperating amid visits from well-wishers
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By Rob Miech
· August 13, 2009 · 10:30 AM
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SAN DIEGO – A son-in-law helped Jerry Tarkanian inch toward a couch, where he gingerly took a seat. The neck brace did not allow for much turning of his head, so he mostly looked straight ahead.
At a wall.
Had he been turned 90 degrees to his left, Tark the Shark would have had the benefit of a beautiful blue sight – the Pacific Ocean.
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- Wolfe one of 37 on Biletnikoff Watch List
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By Ryan Greene
· August 11, 2009 · 2:58 PM
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UNLV senior wide receiver Ryan Wolfe, who enters this season as the Rebels’ career leader in receptions and receiving yards, on Tuesday was named to the Biletnikoff Award Watch List. The Biletnikoff Award is given annually to the nation’s top wide receiver. As a junior for the 5-7 Rebels, Wolfe was ninth ...
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- Rebels hoops season tickets now on sale; stimulus package offered
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By Ryan Greene
· August 7, 2009 · 4:11 PM
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UNLV men’s basketball season tickets are now on sale for the 2009-10 season, and fans will see no price increase this year, the athletics department announced on Friday. Season tickets on the plaza remain at $485 (many require a Rebel Athletic Fund donation), dugout seats are $295 (plus a RAF donation), ...
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- UNLV to face SMU in Diamond Head Classic opener on Dec. 22
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By Ryan Greene
· August 4, 2009 · 2:06 PM
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UNLV will begin its week in paradise over Christmas with a showdown against SMU in the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu on Dec. 22. The game will take place at the Stan Sheriff Center on the University of Hawai’i at Manoa campus, and the event will include 12 games ...
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- UNLV 2009-10 hoops slate near completion with MWC dates announced
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By Ryan Greene
· August 3, 2009 · 12:19 AM
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UNLV’s 2009-10 men’s basketball schedule is almost complete as the Mountain West Conference announced dates for this year’s league schedule over the weekend. The Rebels, who in the non-conference schedule will face Louisville, Arizona, Kansas State and appear in the Diamond Head Classic over Christmas, open the MWC season with a ...
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- Former UNLV guard Robert Smith joins Rebels hoops broadcast team
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By Ryan Greene
· August 3, 2009 · 2:36 PM
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Former UNLV point guard Robert Smith, who starred alongside Glen Gondrezick from 1974-77, will take the seat next to play-by-play man Jon Sadler this season during Rebels radio broadcasts. ‘Gondo’ had served as a television and radio analyst for the past 17 seasons. He passed away on April 27 at the ...
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- ‘Gondo’ to posthumously enter Nevada Broadcasters Assn. HOF
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By Ryan Greene
· August 3, 2009 · 12:10 AM
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Longtime radio and TV announcer Glen ‘Gondo’ Gondrezick, who passed away on April 27 at the age of 53, will be posthumously inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Association’s Hall of Fame on Aug. 15 at the organization’s 14th annual HOF dinner. Godrizeck had undergone heart transplant surgery on Sept. 20, 2008. ‘Gondo’ ...
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- Tarkanian released from hospital
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By Rob Miech
· July 30, 2009 · 7:14 PM
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Former UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian was released from Scripps Memorial Hospital earlier today and was transferred to a rehabilitation center in San Diego. On July 17, Tarkanian underwent a 90-minute procedure, in which a bone spur that had been rubbing against his spinal cord was removed, at the La Jolla, ...
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