Mike Grimala
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No. 21 UNLV women will face Michigan in NCAA Tourney
The UNLV women’s basketball team is heading to the Bayou. NCAA Tournament brackets were revealed on Sunday, and the No. 11 seed Scarlet and Gray will take on No. 6 Michigan on Friday in Baton Rouge ... → Read More
What's next for UNLV after season-ending loss to Boise State?
UNLV waited just a bit too long to play its best basketball of the season. After digging a 22-point deficit in the first half of Thursday’s Mountain West quarterfinal game against Boise State ... → Read More
UNLV women win 22nd straight, clinch NCAA berth
Tight score, an opponent that couldn’t miss, the season hanging in the balance — Wednesday’s Mountain West women’s championship game would have been nerve-wracking for most teams. The UNLV women aren’t most teams ... → Read More
UNLV basketball bottoms out in blowout loss to Utah State
What is the opposite of peaking at the right time? At a time of year when the UNLV basketball team is trying to play its way into a postseason berth, the Scarlet and Gray instead turned in their worst performance of the 2022-23 campaign ... → Read More
Coach faces media for first time since UNLV football player's unexpected death
Barry Odom addressed the media today for the first time since UNLV football player Ryan Keeler was found dead on Feb. 20, but the coach had little to say about the situation. Odom met with reporters at the Fertitta Football Complex after the team’s first spring practice session and fielded ... → Read More
UNLV basketball prioritizing late-game execution vs. Utah State
As the calendar turns to March, it seems like every college basketball game is coming down to the final possession. It’s the time of year when little things like foul strategy, timeout usage and set plays can ... → Read More
Keeler prescribed medication for nausea by UNLV before death last week
Ryan Keeler had been battling illness for a week and was prescribed medication by the UNLV football training staff just days before he was found dead on Feb. 20, according to a police report obtained by the Sun ... → Read More
Durango knocks off Liberty for first state title since 1996
With about 10 seconds to go in Saturday’s Class 5A boys’ state championship game, Durango senior point guard Tylen Riley wanted the ball in his hands. → Read More
Centennial girls make it eight in a row with title win over Coronado
The Centennial girls’ basketball team clinched its eighth consecutive state championship on Saturday with a 59-20 victory over Coronado that felt as perfunctory as the final score indicates ... → Read More
UNLV signee Rob Whaley’s transformation into a top recruit
Two years ago, Rob Whaley weighed in at more than 320 pounds, leading most Division I programs to question his discipline, his work ethic and whether he’d ever be able to keep up with pace of the college game. As a result, his recruiting interest dried up. It was then that Whaley realized how close he was to letting his basketball future slip away. → Read More
E.J. Harkless carries UNLV to last-second win vs. Air Force
UNLV has relied on E.J. Harkless to be its late-game closer all season, but on Friday night against Air Force he watched someone else take the potential go-ahead shot. That didn’t stop him from winning the game anyway ... → Read More
E.J. Harkless willing to take on bigger workload for UNLV
Sometime soon, UNLV guard E.J. Harkless is going to play his 945th minute of the season. It will be more than the fifth-year senior has ever played before, but so far Harkless seems to be dealing with the workload just fine ... → Read More
UNLV football player Ryan Keeler passes away
UNLV football player Ryan Keeler has died, a source close to the team confirmed on Monday. A Chicago native, Keeler transferred to UNLV from Rutgers last offseason. He appeared in seven games during the 2022 campaign and totaled 8.0 tackles ... → Read More
Scuffling UNLV basketball facing tough test at Boise State
Is the season slipping away from UNLV? Kevin Kruger’s squad has lost two in a row and now sits in seventh place in the Mountain West standings (16-10 overall, 5-9 MWC), but the team remains talented and dangerous — if they can ... → Read More
UNLV basketball adjusting to life without turnovers
The UNLV basketball team has lost its identity. Earlier in the year, when things were good — when the Scarlet and Gray ripped off 10 straight wins to open the season ... → Read More
No. 23 UNLV women grab Mountain West crown beating SJSU
Alyssa Brown scored 17 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, Desi-Rae Young had a double-double and No. 23 UNLV clinched its second straight Mountain West Conference regular-season championship, beating San Jose State 77-60 ... → Read More
Valentine's Day massacre: UNLV basketball swept by San Jose State
San Jose State is a better basketball team than UNLV. It may be hard to believe for anyone who has followed UNLV, San Jose State, or the Mountain West in general for the past decade, but the Spartans proved it for 40 minutes on Tuesday night ... → Read More
UNLV basketball looks to bounce back against San Jose State
A loss like the one UNLV suffered at San Diego State on Saturday can do bad things to a team. Given the way SDSU physical manhandled the Scarlet and Gray for the full ... → Read More
UNLV basketball can't keep up in one-sided loss at San Diego State
With less than four minutes remaining in UNLV’s 82-71 loss at San Diego State, senior Luis Rodriguez was subbed out and made his way to the bench ... → Read More
UNLV basketball set for second shot at first-place San Diego State
Is UNLV basketball poised to score a season-defining victory? The Scarlet and Gray head west to take on No. 25 San Diego State on Saturday (1 p.m., FOX), and a win would surely boost Kevin Kruger’s squad as they head into the final stretch of the season ... → Read More