If Mark Spitz is any example, the media will still be enamored of Michael Phelps 36 years from now when the 2044 Games are held.
BEIJING — What the United States boxing program has lost in skill, it has replaced with a longtime political maneuver: These guys assign blame like nobody’s business.
Scott McClain and Brett Harper hit home runs, leading the Fresno Grizzlies to a 6-3 victory over the Las Vegas 51s in the Pacific Coast League on Sunday at Fresno, Calif.
The initial diagnosis was that Minnesota Vikings quarterback Tarvaris Jackson suffered a bruised right knee in Saturday’s preseason game at Baltimore, but further tests revealed a sprain to his medial collateral ligament, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
ELY — UNLV junior defensive tackle Perry Eppenger entered training camp in shape and supposedly with a new commitment to football.
Steven Manthei struck out 10 in eight innings, and Jeff Malm struck out the side in the ninth as Bishop Gorman’s American Legion baseball team edged Taylorsville (Utah) 5-4 to move into the championship round of the Western Regional tournament in Surprise, Ariz., on Sunday.
RENO — Sen. Barack Obama told a small crowd of supporters here Sunday that he offers real solutions to the nation’s economic woes while his opponent is pushing the same tired agenda of President Bush.
It was a Playboy party, and like all Playboy parties, women wore see-through lingerie. They tiptoed in high-heeled sandals, making their thighs and things jolt like pistons of flesh everywhere you looked.
Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani has introduced an ordinance that would allow caretakers to set up registered feral cat colonies through the animal control division.
Last week was one of those sweet-and-sour weeks for Mary Ellen Stephen.
CARSON CITY — Workers set steel rebar into place while perched on support columns high above Galena Creek on what will be part of a new bridge and freeway linking Reno to the capital.
PHOENIX — Days of heavy rain around the Grand Canyon created flooding that caused an earthen dam to fail Sunday, and helicopters plucked scores of residents and campers from the gorge. No injuries were immediately reported.
In a Week in Review item in Sunday’s Review-Journal, the year that Olympic boxer Rhoshii Wells won a bronze medal was incorrect. Wells, who was slain last week in Las Vegas, won the medal at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.
State Democrats have a healthy 27-15 edge in the Nevada Assembly. Republicans, meanwhile, have a tiny 11-10 majority in the state Senate.
The states and their people were concerned: The Constitution of 1789 appeared to give the new central government too much power. They seriously threatened not to ratify the thing unless they were promised a Bill of Rights to guarantee certain God-given liberties would remain inviolable — could never be subject to the whims of those in power.
This week’s National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas heralds a renewable-energy renaissance, some analysts say.
Gavin Isaacs has seen far more of the United States than his native Australia.
