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Mike Grimala

Sports Reporter

Mike covered high school and college sports for The Boston Globe and ESPN.com before moving to Las Vegas in 2012 to cover UNLV athletics for RunRebs.com. Mike is a Massachusetts native, a graduate of Northeastern University and a fan of all Boston sports teams (though he’s not as obnoxious about it as you’d imagine).

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    Tuesday, June 6, 2023

    UNLV had its first official summer practice on Monday, tipping off an eight-week window in which college coaches get to work with their players on the court and in the weight room as they prepare for the upcoming 2023-24 season ...

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    Monday, June 5, 2023

    As one of three high-profile veteran transfers who committed to UNLV on April 19, Keylan Boone is going to be counted on to help bring an end to the Scarlet and Gray’s decade-long NCAA Tournament drought ...

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    Tuesday, May 30, 2023

    D.J. Thomas has an unbeatable résumé. The Liberty point guard is a 4-star recruit in the Class of 2024, and he’s rated the No. 22 prospect in the nation by 247 Sports. After averaging 22.8 points and 5.1 assists as a junior this ...

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    Thursday, May 25, 2023

    As a freshman a year ago, Brynn Kort lost out on the individual state title by a single stroke to perhaps the best female prep golfer in state history, then-teammate Yana Wilson.

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    Thursday, May 25, 2023

    Maintaining poise in the toughest moments is a concept almost all coaches preach, but few ever get a chance to demonstrate it as flawlessly as LaShondra Rayford did earlier this year.

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    Thursday, May 25, 2023

    During more than three decades at the Spring Mountain Youth Camp, Ed Cheltenham won 13 state championships in track and field and another two titles in basketball.

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    Thursday, May 25, 2023

    Christian Thatcher, a 6-foot-2, 192-pound sophomore linebacker, picked up scholarship offers from Oklahoma, Colorado and West Virginia all on the same day earlier this May.

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    Thursday, May 25, 2023

    Rachel Levy had prepared for a severe incident of this nature countless times. So when she heard frantic screams calling her name from observers at Desert Oasis High School after a flag football player collapsed and was unconscious, reacting was like second nature.

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    Thursday, May 25, 2023

    Community service initiatives began drawing in Leslie Maldonado Carrasco when she was in middle school.

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    Thursday, May 25, 2023

    The flag football state championship game had just concluded, and the Desert Oasis players had begun gathering to celebrate their win over Legacy. Amid the chaos, coach Todd Thomson began frantically searching for the game ball.