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Mike Grimala
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Covering UNLV sports and the occult for the Las Vegas Sun.
I’m about to go on the air with Tyler and Ed to talk about UNLV’s new coach(es) and maybe some tax filing advice. Tune in now! 📻

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March 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Notes from UNLV football spring practice Day 1:

🙆🏻‍♀️ Mullen on return to coaching: ‘It’s so good to be back out here’

🌻 Spring focus all about player development

👯‍♂️ Quarterbacks split reps

⏩ Jai’den Thomas still fast

📑 OL Jack Hasz doesn’t participate, still awaiting waiver
March 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Expectations at all-time high as UNLV football takes field for spring practice

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March 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Pastner Plan: NIL has to be name of game for UNLV basketball under new coach

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March 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Notes from Josh Pastner UNLV press conference:

💵 NIL talk rules the day

🤝🏻 Will be hands-on with fundraising

🗒️ Says two years away have made him a better coach

🏡 Calls UNLV his ‘dream job,’ wants to stay 30 years

🔜 Believes 2026 NCAAs within reach: ‘I don’t want to wait’
March 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
UNLV set to hire Josh Pastner as next basketball coach

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March 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
UNLV women eliminated by buzzer-beater in WBIT

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March 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Final: Florida 86, UNLV 84.

Florida's Kenza Salgues hits a 3-pointer off a broken play as time expires to give the Gators the comeback win. UNLV's run is over in the second round of the WBIT.

Scarlet and Gray finish the season with a 26-8 record.
March 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Halftime: UNLV 50, Florida 39.

UNLV women shoot 54.5 percent in the half, with Amarachi Kimpson (11 points), Alyssa Brown (10) and Meadow Roland (10) all in double figures.

Erick Harper is here, sitting behind the UNLV bench. Anyone got a pen Lindy could borrow? ✍️
March 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The door may not be completely closed, depending on how fast things start moving.
Hopefully we can keep DJ 🤞
March 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Good afternoon from Cox Pavilion!

We are about 10 minutes away from tipoff for UNLV women’s basketball vs. Florida in the second round of the WBIT.

Winner advances to the quarterfinals, which UNLV could host depending on other results.
March 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
UNLV coaching search continues on eve of transfer portal opening

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March 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
March Madness done right
March 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Former assistant Carlin Hartman emerges as candidate for UNLV head coach

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March 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Next wave takes charge as UNLV women knock off Hawaii in WBIT

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March 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Final: UNLV 63, Hawaii 46.

Scarlet and Gray advance to the second round of the WBIT and will host Florida on Sunday.

Three players — all returners next year — finish in double figures for UNLV, led by freshman Meadow Roland's 16 points.
Good evening from Cox Pavilion!

We are 15 minutes away from tipoff for UNLV women’s basketball vs. Hawaii in the first round of the WBI tournament.

Lindy La Rocque’s Scarlet and Gray squad enters as the No. 2 seed.
March 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Good evening from Cox Pavilion!

We are 15 minutes away from tipoff for UNLV women’s basketball vs. Hawaii in the first round of the WBI tournament.

Lindy La Rocque’s Scarlet and Gray squad enters as the No. 2 seed.
March 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
UNLV has contacted Florida assistant Carlin Hartman about its head coaching position, according to a source.

He is not the only candidate at this point but the interest is mutual.

Hartman, 52, was an assistant at UNLV under Kevin Kruger in 2021-22.
March 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Winning is the No. 1 item on the blueprint, but UNLV’s next basketball coach must also:

🤝🏻 Work with boosters to build NIL funds

🎒 Retain local recruiting footprint

🦈 Embrace past eras

💺 Pack the Mack again

🆚 Schedule with at-large résumé in mind

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March 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Program-building priorities for next UNLV basketball coach

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March 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
UNLV top scorer D.J. Thomas enters transfer portal

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March 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
We are about 15 minutes away from the women’s NCAA bracket reveal on ESPN.

UNLV is 25-7 and currently right on the bubble, projected to be one of the first four teams out. Regular-season finale loss at Wyoming (No. 80 NET ranking) is looming large.
March 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Some potential names to consider as UNLV searches for its fourth head coach in 10 years, including:

🌲 A former UNLV assistant from a complicated coaching tree

🏆 A proven MWC winning machine

⛹🏻‍♀️ A glass-ceiling breaker

📋 A 2x NBA Coach of the Year

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March 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Nine potential candidates as UNLV searches for next basketball coach

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March 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Kevin Kruger fired after four years.

Higher winning percentage than his two predecessors, reeled in some impressive recruits and swept SDSU, but UNLV always seemed to add up to less than the sum of its parts.

Biggest issue: Never truly settled on an identity/style of play.
Kevin Kruger out as UNLV basketball coach after 4 seasons

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March 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM