About 10 minutes into UNLV’s home game against Incarnate Word on Dec. 14, two fans moved from their seats in the upper bowl to a pair of aisle seats in the lower level. They stretched out, put their feet up and made themselves comfortable in a sea of empty chairs.

Throughout January, Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood hotel-casino will collect donations for Las Vegas Business Academy in honor of National Mentoring Month.

UNLV professor Michael Pravica explains how physics relate to modern day driving, seat belts, teen car stunts, traffic crashes, and more.

Greg Griffin said it’s happened “a million times.” He’s probably exaggerating a tad, given he’s been driving a cab for only a few decades. “Well, it happens a lot,” he said.

UNLV is winning conference championships and making postseason appearances at a near historic rate, capturing four league titles last spring and sending three teams this past fall to the postseason.

The gifts have been opened, and now it’s time for the holiday cleanup.

When UNLV history Professor Gene Moehring packed his bags in 1976 and left New York for a new job in Las Vegas, he traded a highly developed urban and financial center for a place where history was very much a work in progress.

The word unique gets tossed around without much attention toward its meaning. It doesn’t mean merely rare or unusual. It means singular. In Nevada, Michael Frazier is unique.

When UNLV went looking for a men’s basketball coach in January, the Rebels eschewed a search firm and did it themselves, and the following four months were a messy, embarrassing process that tarnished the program and university.