Nobody on Team USA is going to tell Jason Kidd to act his age. Especially when he’s having so much fun playing basketball — and playing at such a high level.
The smell always gets you. That clear, disinfectant odor of drugs mixed with fear. You can’t avoid it. There is no special corridor, no secret passageway, no singular escape by which to circumvent the scent.
With their WBA welterweight showdown just four days away, Antonio Margarito was talking tough about Miguel Cotto.
Put these names somewhere in your memory bank: Kenny Boynton, John Henson, Renardo Sidney and John Wall.
The first time I saw Michelle Wie play, she was a 13-year-old with her dad on the bag and her mom just outside the ropes. She was already a 6-footer blasting her drives 300 yards, but like any young teenager, she was self-conscious about her braces and ill at ease when it came to talking to adults.
UNLV softball coach Lonni Alameda has left the Rebels after five seasons to replace a coaching legend in the sport at Florida State.
Wasting company money usually turns an employee into an ex-employee. So Ned Colletti, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ general mismanager of funds, is in trouble with his boss.
Wade Collie hit a long jumper with four seconds remaining Tuesday to lift the Triple Double Elite East of Las Vegas over the Arkansas Hawks 17s 66-64 in the Reebok Summer Championships at Green Valley.
Mike Koplove was in a state of disbelief.
Could the Mountain West Conference’s next step be adding Boise State?
RENO — A tornado, hail and heavy rain pummeled rural Nevada but caused no injuries or major damage.
A 51-year-old man died after crashing a scooter near Jones Boulevard and Washington Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
This week readers want to know when the construction at Fort Apache Road and Sahara Avenue is going to wrap up and when the Warm Springs Road overpass at Interstate 15 is going to be redone. Also, the Road Warrior passes on some advice for commuters displaced by the I-15 North project and settles a bet worth a free car wash.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Rising gasoline prices appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will introduce the “Victims of Polygamy Assistance Act of 2008” on Wednesday, which would establish a federal task force to combat polygamy-related crimes and offer grants to social service agencies that help former members of polygamous sects. The act seeks to curtail abuse, extortion, witness tampering, embezzlement and other illegal activities law enforcement agencies suspect are associated with polygamous groups, according to Reid’s office. “The federal government has a duty to help fight the serious state and federal crimes committed by these groups,” said Reid, who is one of 16 Mormons serving in Congress.
The 12-year-old California girl whose heart stopped while riding a local roller coaster died Tuesday, an employee with University Medical Center confirmed.
CARSON CITY — A racing team funded by missing and presumed dead pilot Steve Fossett won’t be trying to set a world land speed record this summer near Eureka, or anywhere else.
The truck referenced in a sports story in Tuesday’s Review-Journal as being driven by mixed martial artist Quinton “Rampage” Jackson was not a gift from Toyo Tires as reported, but the athlete is a paid endorser of the company and the vehicle prominently displays the Toyo Tires logo in several places.
Prosecutors may be planning to convene a grand jury to consider evidence against a suspended Nevada Highway Patrol sergeant who is accused of driving under the influence of marijuana while involved in a fatal crash June 11.
The FBI has had a long fascination with Las Vegas.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid appears headed for a new showdown with Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican and Senate maverick who has blocked dozens of bills he believes are flawed or should be fully debated before they are passed.
Taking the stage Tuesday at the ceremonial groundbreaking for an industrial park outside Las Vegas, Gov. Jim Gibbons began, “Let me make full disclosure, since the press is here. One, I do not have a financial interest in this project. Two, I did not use my power as governor to get to speak up here.”
CARSON CITY — An initiative petition pushed by state Senate candidate Sharron Angle to cap property taxes has enough raw signatures to move the qualification process for the November election to the next phase, the secretary of state’s office reported Tuesday.