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The Week
Living Well After Livengood?
The search could go nationwide, but some local names merit a look
May 9th, 2013
The search could go nationwide, but some local names merit a look. Read more »
Firefly Fiasco Doesn't Slow UNLV Ad Team
May 8th, 2013
Lisa Coruzzi was fighting cold sweats, noodly legs and stabbing abdominal pain when she and four fellow UNLV students took the stage April 24 at the University of California Fullerton’s Titan Student Pavilions. Read more »
Adam Scott's Masters Win Ignites Rebels Fans
UNLV alum scores first major win for university's golf program
April 15th, 2013
When Adam Scott sank a 12-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole Sunday to win the Masters over Angel Cabrera, he not only overcame the ghosts of Australia's tough-luck past on the links, he also exorcised UNLV's golf demons. Read more »
Tarkanian
An Oral History of Jerry Tarkanian at UNLV
April 3rd, 2013
Forty years ago, Jerry Tarkanian arrived in Las Vegas to become UNLV’s fifth head basketball coach. Over the next 19 years, he and his new city shared many characteristics: often misunderstood, regularly chastised, always willfully against-the-grain. Las Vegas loved the man known as “Tark the Shark,” and he loved it right back, bringing civic pride to a town primarily made up of transplants, delivering a winner to a city built on losers. Read more »
Three Questions: Ice Age Predators
April 3rd, 2013
UNLV geologist Josh Bonde was surveying the Upper Las Vegas Wash last June when he and his team of undergrad assistants noticed a bone sticking out of the side of a hill. He knew immediately that it was from some sort of dog, and an independent examination recently confirmed it was the foot bone of a 10,000-15,000-year-old dire wolf. Read more »
The Rise, Fall and Reboot of UNLVNow
March 31st, 2013
It was hard not to be taken aback by the suddenness with which Majestic Realty was jettisoned from the UNLVNow project so that the university could work more closely with the major Strip hotel-casino operators. Read more »
UNLVNow: A Proposal for Modesty
March 27th, 2013
Whenever someone asks, “What’s the one part of life you’d love to do over again?” my answer is always the same: college years, hands down. Which is why 18-year-old me would look at the UNLVNow proposal—with its 60,000-seat mega-events center serving as the centerpiece of a new, vibrant campus community that presently doesn’t exist—and thrust two thumbs up. Read more »
Feature
The Meaning of Anthony Bennett
Sometime in the next three weeks, the superstar big man’s first (and probably only) season at UNLV will end. But he’ll be influencing the Rebels for years to come.
March 13th, 2013
What is Anthony Bennett worth to the UNLV basketball program? Not in a monetary sense, of course–according to the NCAA, college athletes don’t generate any revenue for their schools. But in terms of everything else, how do you quantify Bennett’s value? Read more »
Sports
The Point of it All
February 28th, 2013
There was a time when UNLV could have been called Point Guard U. From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the men’s basketball team was consistently blessed with great floor generals, from Robert Smith to Greg Anthony. The team’s style attracted expert distributors who loved pace, ran the fast break expertly and were at ease in half-court sets. Read more »
About Town
The Marlboro Fan
OK, it’s Winston, but this guy’s one rugged Rebel
February 14th, 2013
Ken Johann’s Hemingway-like visage nearly disappears in a tobacco cloud. Decades of Winstons have produced a deep, raspy voice. My throat and lungs nearly seize. When UNLV soccer coach Rich Ryerson calls to ask if Johann wants to accompany him to the Rebels’ basketball game that night, the octogenarian booms: Read more »
