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Six Nevada football games this fall will air on national networks, University of Nevada Athletics announced Wednesday. Three Wolf Pack home games will air on CBS Sports Network, beginning with the Sept. 16 game against Kansas. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. ...

Two big annual bowling events scheduled in Reno will be moved to a later date as the U.S. Bowling Congress shuffles its Women’s Championships schedule in different cities. The 2025 and 2030 USBC Women’s Championships in Reno will instead return to the city at a later year, according to an agreement between the organization and the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority. ...

The Nevada women's track and field team's 4x400 relay squad is surging at the end of the season. The quartet of Emily Costello, Carolyn Ross, Halyn Senegal and Annalies Kalma qualified for the NCAA Championships at last week's West Preliminaries by running a school-record time of 3 minutes, 33.85 seconds, two seconds better than the previous school record, which the team set at the MW Championship (by six seconds). The 4x400 team has set the school record in three straight meets and is one of 24 Division I 4x400 relay teams across the nation to qualify for next week's NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas.

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - Kick For A Cause began in 2021 to help support local children with special needs to acquire alternative treatments and therapies not covered by insurance. Often times these medical costs are lifelong expenses that the families just cannot endure. Alternative therapies change the lives of kids with disabilities forever.

The final air races at the Reno-Stead Airport will happen in September of 2023. The 59th National Championship Air Races will take place for the final time at the Reno-Stead Airport on September 13-17.

RENO, Nev. – — After taking over the top spot in Regular Team on Wednesday at the 2023United States Bowling Congress Open Championships, the members of Riding Kenny’s Coattails of Cincinnati were primed to make a run at Team All-Events in their return to the National Bowling Stadium on Thursday.

The Northern Nevada Baseball Coaches Association will hold its annual Underclassman All-Star Game this Sunday at 1 p.m. at Bishop Manogue High School. The nine-inning game will include non-seniors who made the all-conference team or were nominated by the league's coaches. In total, 43 Northern Nevada players from 5A schools were invited to the showcase game.

Nevada Sports Net’s Chris Murray details why Nevada athletics need to adapt to modern college athletics, and promptly, or else face the possibility of Nevada falling behind. Really, this article is relevant for nearly all G5 programs. Lobo-Aggie men’s basketball series is in jeopardy. It’s hard to imagine...

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - He calls himself the ‘Coordinator of All Things Good Times’. Since 2015, Reno Aces On-Field Emcee Chris Payne has been the most passionate, and recognizable personality at Greater Nevada Field. “My energy comes from understanding the audience,” he said. Payne’s day starts with...

LAWRENCE – The Big 12 Conference released a portion of the early television broadcast assignments and kickoff times for the 2023 college football season on Wednesday. Times and TV designations are now set for Kansas’ games vs. Missouri State on Aug. 31 and at Nevada on Sept. 16.

RENO, Nev. – — Three 300 games and a Standard Team record on the way to the lead have highlighted an exciting two-day stretch at the 2023United States Bowling Congress Open Championships. Craig Nidiffer of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, started his singles set Friday with 12 strikes, and Michael...

Editor’s Note: The following story appeared in the May 22 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 class. ———————– Eric Edelstein epitomized “baseball...

Dylan Menante, who was born in Reno and now competes for North Carolina, finished fourth in the individual NCAA men's golf championship Monday at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. A senior, Menante shot rounds of 68-70-67-70 to finish with a 5-under 275, two strokes behind Florida's Fred Biondi, who...

Nevada women’s track and field announced the signing of Nigerian native for the 2023-24 class, Oke Gift Ovejde, to the team for next fall. “We are so excited for Gift to be joining the program,” said associate head track and field coach Scott Williamson. “Throughout the recruiting process, she has shown a desire to be a great athlete and has high goals for herself. She will make an immediate impact in the hurdle events as well as our relays, and we can’t wait for her to be on campus this fall.

Former Reno High star Grayson Grinsell was named to the 11-player Pac-12 All-Tournament team after leading Oregon to the conference tournament championship and an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament last weekend. Grinsell appeared in two of Oregon's four games as the Ducks went 4-0 in the tournament, beating Arizona,...

SPARKS, Nev. (KOLO) - Event organizers label it as the oldest national qualifying senior softball tournament in America. And it’s here in Northern Nevada. “It’s all about still being able to play, being able to compete, and compete at a high level,” Senior Softball CEO Terry Hennessy described.

It's one thing to be the first softball team at your school to win a state title, but how about being the first team sport to win state in the school's history? The 2023 North Valleys Panthers softball team accomplished just that by winning the Northern and State 3A titles this month, winning the first state title since the school opened in 2001. The team, led by head coach Eric McCuskey and players Staci Davis and Karli Klein, joined NSN Daily this week to recap the historic season.

Attention all basketball fans! Get ready for an exciting event this Memorial Day weekend. The Annual Reno Memorial Day Tournament by Jam On it is back and it promises to be bigger and better than ever before.

Nevada's Stephanie Rempe is entering her first full summer as the Wolf Pack's athletic director after being hired last June (her first day on the job was July 18). With Nevada's athletic season winding down this week with the outdoor track and field NCAA West Preliminary, Rempe stopped by NSN's studios Friday to discuss a number of topics, including the school's "Nevada's College Town" initiative; Wolf Pack Fridays; name, imagine and likeness efforts; facility improvements coming this summer; football season-ticket sales; and game-day experience efforts. You can see the full interview below or read a portion of the conversation underneath that.

Over the last decade, Northern Nevada has not had much success against Southern Nevada in large-class state championships. Since 2010, the North has won just 18 large-class state titles in the following 16 sports — football, baseball, boys basketball, girls basketball, volleyball, girls tennis, boys tennis, boys track and field, girls track and field, boys swimming, girls swimming, boys soccer, girls soccer, girls golf, boys golf and wrestling. That's fewer than 10 percent of the total titles available.