UNLV and San Diego State players and fans joined together for a touching tribute to the victims of last week's shooting in Las Vegas by releasing balloons during a moment of silence.

In the wake of a mass shooting that has shaken their city, Nevada-Las Vegas administrators announced that a series of tributes will take place at the school’s Saturday football game against San Diego State.

UNLV hockey assistant coach Nick Robone was shot in the chest during the Vegas massacre on Sunday night -- and while he's badly injured, he's fighting like crazy and expected to survive.

Assistant UNLV Hockey Coach Nick Robone, 28, was at the Route 91 Harvest Festival with his younger brother, Anthony, a paramedic with the Henderson Fire Department, and their friends and girlfriends Sunday evening when the shooting broke out.

The college basketball landscape is currently being rearranged by a pay-for-play scandal that has already touched (and toppled) some of the nation’s elite programs, but at UNLV’s first practice of the season on Saturday, head coach Marvin Menzies expressed confidence that his team won't be affected by the investigation.

A UNLV hockey assistant who was among the more than 500 people injured in a mass shooting during a concert in Las Vegas on Sunday night is out of surgery and is expected to make a full recovery, the UNLV hockey team's account tweeted out in a statement.

Assistant UNLV Hockey Coach Nick Robone, 28, was at the Route 91 Harvest Festival with his younger brother, Anthony, a paramedic with the Henderson Fire Department, and their friends and girlfriends Sunday evening when the shooting broke out.

UNLV will ask the Nevada Board of Regents to approve a plan that would allow the university to take out a loan to fund the majority of construction costs for the school’s new football practice facility.

She’s the one.

According to a recent college sports diversity report by Dr. Richard Lapchick, white men held 78.9 percent of the 128 athletics director positions at FBS schools, white women held 7.0 percent of the jobs and athletics directors of color 14.1 percent. What was missing in the report (titled Assessing Diversity among Campus and Conference Leaders for Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Schools in the 2016-17 Academic Year)?

New UNLV athletic director Desiree Reed-Francois made her first major hire Tuesday, announcing John Gladchuk will be the senior associate AD in charge of external affairs.

New UNLV athletic director Desiree Reed-Francois has to get reacclimated to a daily life involving quiet hours, resident assistants, and coin-operated laundry.

Desiree Reed-Francois received welcome financial news for the UNLV athletic department before even taking over as its director.