Don’t get cocky about the good old-fashioned Rebel beat down Saturday.

UNLV was overrated going into the game and deserved the Wolf Pack’s whooping.

Nevada kept the Fremont Cannon blue Saturday with its 49-27 victory against UNLV.

Read live coverage of the Battle for the Fremont Cannon from Emerson Marcus.

When the University of Nevada, Reno battles its Rebel rival Saturday, two brothers will play on opposite sides of the field.

In the early 1970s, black student athletes walked into then NSU President Don Baepler’s office and asked the school to change its mascot from a wolf, dressed in a United State’s Confederate uniform, to something more respectable. The supposed “rebel” president caved and changed the mascot the next season.

The Nevada tennis team competed with children in the community Friday in the Red, White and Blue tennis Pro-Am sponsored by Lakeridge Tennis Club.

“The guys and the girls team love giving back to the community,” Nevada men’s tennis Coach Chad Stoloff said.

Children 8 years and older were given the chance to play and be instructed by Nevada tennis players for a $10 fee.

Nevada students, this weekend when you travel to Las Vegas, try to avoid the glitz and ditz of a city fallen off the materialistic cliff. It won’t be easy to hold back your anger and not punch the guy spouting douche bag comments at you across the beer pong table after the game.

Nevada soccer player Patrice Godwin’s good luck charm this summer was a little girl named Anika.

Nevada cross country runner Natalia Jarkawa overheard one of her teammates jokingly tease her Polish accent at Friday’s practice.

The Pistol offense is very innovative and schools across the country are copying it, with good reason. But with today’s high-tech offenses, programs around the nation are using a little of everything: a little of the Pistol, a little of the spread, mixed with option-reads and a strong vertical game. That is what Missouri brought Saturday.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri’s offense was so successful Saturday against Nevada that it declined a 15-yard pass interference call in favor of an 11-yard completion.

The NCAA’s 10-month investigation into the University of Nevada, Reno’s athletic department has found no lack of institutional control or issues with gambling in the athletic department, Nevada Athletic Director Cary Groth said Sept. 9.

The Wolf Pack lacrosse club had its first practice Sunday and is actively seeking new players and sponsorships for the upcoming sports season, which will also include the first-ever Nevada women’s lacrosse team.

Nevada (1-2) will have a bye-week to regroup from suffering two major injuries in the offensive backfield. The Wolf Pack lost senior running back Luke Lippincott last week to a season-ending anterior crutiate ligament injury against Texas Tech.

Nevada students can’t get too spoiled, though, because before the Wolf Pack’s three-game winning streak Nevada had a four-game losing run. The Wolf Pack had a five-game winning streak before that, presenting a trend of consecutive wins in the rivalry.