Kirk Saarloos pitched seven strong innings Saturday night to lead the Sacramento River Cats to a 10-1 Pacific Coast League victory over the 51s in West Sacramento, Calif.
The stars appear to be aligned for what could be the biggest fight of 2008: a showdown between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito.
Anderson Silva admitted that some members of his camp were skeptical about his decision to move up to the light heavyweight division for one fight.
C.J. Watson thinks his play at the NBA Summer League was good enough to keep him employed in the league this fall. Whether the Golden State Warriors agree remains to be seen.
Anthony Lenk has been boxing since he was 7 years old — but only recently did he finally get paid to beat up someone.
True, Donte Greene was was a first-round draft pick, but not many people outside of Baltimore and central New York state knew who he was when the NBA Summer League began play last week.
Lyndon Johnson was president when Joe Paterno, nearly 40, became head football coach at Penn State. NASA hadn’t reached the moon yet. Most television sets were black and white.
Democrats submitted an ethics complaint against Gov. Jim Gibbons on Saturday, charging that the governor abused his position to get a discount on his property taxes for a piece of land in rural Nevada.
His name was Dionysus, but you’d be forgiven for thinking the gods had conspired against him.
We already know about the foreclosure crisis. And the credit crisis, the value-of-the-dollar crisis and, of course, the gasoline prices crisis.
WASHINGTON — As gasoline prices continued to rise last week, both the House and Senate talked about solutions but didn’t deliver any relief because of partisan bickering.
An off-duty Nevada Highway Patrol sergeant who caused a June 11 crash that killed a Las Vegas woman was arrested and charged with felony driving under the influence.
Baker Jaime Lopez loves his life in Las Vegas, where he has lived for more than two decades and has built a successful business.
Minutes into Friday’s memorial for mentalist Jason Scott on the deck at the Palms’ ghostbar, a shooting star blazed over the Strip.
It was July 19, 1966, and the national media were horse-laughing at Don Digilio, managing editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Quoting the famous “reliable source,” Digilio had reported on his front page that “Singer/actor Frank Sinatra and his youthful sweetheart, Mia Farrow, will be married at the Sands Hotel today at 5:30 p.m.”
A photo caption accompanying a Saturday Review-Journal story about the $7 billion school bond misidentified School Board member Sheila Moulton.
A RECENT STORY ABOUT 10-YEAR-OLD BRANDON RAYNER, who is trying to collect a record number of business cards while he battles leukemia, prompted a flood of support — and business cards — for the boy.
Fuel taxes are going the way of the stegosaurus, dodo bird and Jean Claude Van Damme’s film career.
“Laws for the liberal education of youth … are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.”
How many pin-headed lawyers can dance around an issue without ever reaching a logical point?
Ron Taylor, a Clark County middle school teacher, upset his bosses. He raised questions about how they were spending their money. He complained about the health care benefits they set up. Worst of all, he tried to recruit some of his fellow teachers to join a union — the Teamsters — and have it certified as their bargaining agent.