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Sweet sunlight from The Bridges

Griffin puts clamps on ‘Rampage’

In a memorable outburst during Season 7 of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality show on which both were coaches, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson screamed at Forrest Griffin that they wouldn’t need judges when they met in the octagon.

‘NAME THAT TUNE’ NOT THEIR GAME

In the new EA Sports soccer video game Euro 2008, players can choose their country and try to captain their team to the title. Should they win, they get a medal ceremony, complete with their national anthem.

THE HOT CORNER

[MAL VAN VALKENBURG Review-Journal, 38-31-2 (overall record)]

Mayweather Sr. training son of former Olympian

Floyd Mayweather Sr. isn’t worried about his son’s recent decision to retire, and he has time on his side to help Oscar De La Hoya wrap up his Hall of Fame career in December.

Patient Busch prevails

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Kyle Busch fell a lap down at Talladega and came back to win. So when a steering problem dropped him to the back of the field in the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway, he didn’t panic.

Sky Sox rally in eighth inning to sink 51s

Doug Bernier’s single drove in the decisive run in a four-run eighth inning that carried Colorado Springs to a 10-6 Pacific Coast League victory over the 51s on Saturday night in Colorado Springs, Colo.

COLUMNIST LOOKING FOR COMPANY IN BEIJING

Are you traveling to Beijing next month for the Olympics, either as a participant, official, support staff member or tourist?

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT HOLLYWOOD PARK

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

Scuba diving caps great trip

Editor’s note: UNLV basketball player Kendall Wallace provided occasional postcards during the team’s six-game “Down Under” tour of Australia. The team returned to Las Vegas on Saturday, and Wallace filed his final thoughts:

Reno man files lawsuit over arrest at concert

RENO — A Reno man has sued several law enforcement officers, alleging they used excessive force against him at a Neal McCoy concert in Yerington in July 2006.

Youth’s mother defies court

An Illinois woman defied the order of a Clark County Family Court judge last month when she refused to send her 8-year-old son for 10 days of unsupervised visitation with his father.

Larson a no-show at Audigier event

It’s never a big surprise when Michael Jackson, with his history of unpredictability, doesn’t show up. But Sarah Larson‘s absence was another story.

Ron Paul stirs up Nevadans

Before he heard about Ron Paul, Wayne Terhune wasn’t much into politics.

DR. DESAI’S RISE AND FALL

A dozen palm trees sway gently in the breeze behind the Red Rock Country Club home of Dr. Dipak Desai. Tiny ripples move across the pond that sparkles even as the June sun begins to drop behind the mountains.

Spotting Skin Cancer

Before Dr. Johnnie Woodson began to remove tiny moles from Rosa Stone’s face, the dermatologist reminded his patient that individuals with dark skin are not immune from sun-inducing skin cancer.

IN BRIEF

las vegas death

Former LV doctor details complaints concerning Desai

Almost immediately after Dr. Charles Cohan opened his Las Vegas practice in 1994, the gastroenterologist became suspicious of another practitioner in the speciality, Dr. Dipak Desai.

reporters’ notebook

THOUGH THE OWNER OF THE NOW-DEFUNCT SUNFLOWER MASSAGE didn’t show up for a hearing on his business license last week, his attorney, James Buchanan, gamely went through his lawyerly paces to defend his client against allegations of prostitution from a hostile Las Vegas City Council.

Top News

A judge issued an order Monday that stopped Nevada’s sex offender law from taking effect until challenges are resolved.

Give me cell or give me death

When it comes to “shame on you” legislation, nobody outperforms the social engineers in Sacramento. The year-round lawmakers in the great state of California are the undisputed kings of “Tsk-Tsk” laws, and their latest came last week when they outlawed the use of hand-held cell phones while driving.

You just can’t please everybody

“I was the unlucky man who won the prize, the luck of the draw. That’s why I’m now here, not of my own free will or by your choice. I know that — for no one likes a messenger who comes bearing unwelcome news with him.”

YouTube sensation

Nevada’s own Harry Reid has become a YouTube sensation for continually combining his gloomy disposition with rhetoric that makes even his most partisan supporters cringe.

Nevada’s governor really has no political future

When in the course of day-to-day events, it becomes necessary for the state of Nevada to have a leader; the people should declare themselves willing to secure this right.

Luck be a lady?

At the northern edge of downtown’s Glitter Gulch, just south of the old post office along Third Street, Las Vegas redevelopment efforts have a toehold of notable success in the Hogs and Heifers tavern and the highly rated Triple George restaurant.

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