Henderson International’s first play from scrimmage Friday was a 63-yard touchdown run.
Sandy Valley’s resulted in a lost fumble.
That about summed up the Wolverines’ 52-0 romp over the undermanned Sidewinders in a Class 1A game at Henderson International.
The plan for Oscar De La Hoya was to have three fights in 2008 to wrap up his Hall of Fame career, the final one coming in December.
Los Angeles Dodgers relief pitcher Scott Proctor has been the definition of durable the past two seasons, appearing in 166 games, the second most in baseball behind Washington’s Jon Rauch (173).
The motor sports world should focus on Clermont, Ind., this weekend instead of Fontana, Calif.
The differences between the UNLV and Utah State football teams seem minuscule compared to the striking similarities.
The biggest upgrade I’ve seen at Del Mar this year, and something that has not received any notoriety, is the much-improved jockey colony.
Justin Johnson came close to winning NASCAR Super Late Models championships the past two years at Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s Bullring.
Marcus Sullivan touched the football only 10 times in Cheyenne’s season opener Thursday.
School started more than a week ago for most of the players on Bishop Gorman’s American Legion baseball team.
Olympic sensation Michael Phelps is home, and his media tour began Thursday morning with an appearance in New York City on NBC’s “The Today Show.”
CARSON CITY — A federal judge has upheld the ban on typewriters by Nevada prison inmates, the state attorney general’s office announced Thursday.
Sex educators got a homework assignment Thursday from the Clark County School Board — craft a new teachers’ guide for discussing statutory rape with students to replace an already purchased guide that was rejected in a vote of 4-1.
Jerry Lewis is setting up another MDA Telethon at South Point. If you want to sit in the audience, seats are free from 9 p.m. Sunday to 2 p.m. Monday.
DENVER — James Carville, architect of many Democratic victories, wasn’t in Denver on Thursday for Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the finale of the Democratic National Convention.
CARSON CITY — A request from O.J. Simpson’s last remaining co-defendant to delay the Sept. 8 start of the pair’s armed robbery and kidnapping trial was rejected Thursday by a divided Nevada Supreme Court panel.
Tony McCormick Jr. was remembered this week as a civil rights activist eager to help those in need.
CARSON CITY — A black bear that has been captured and removed from urban areas at least four times over the past few years was destroyed by wildlife biologists after it was found roaming a Carson City neighborhood.
DENVER — Xiomara Rodriguez, the Nevada woman whose scheduled address to the Democratic convention got bumped from the schedule Wednesday night, wasn’t too upset about it on Thursday.
RENO — Burning Man organizers have contracted with the Highway Patrol to provide a dozen or more troopers a day through the weekend to assist motorists and help keep a remote 74-mile stretch of state highway safe between Interstate 80 and the counterculture festival.
There was little sign of the economic slowdown in gaming Thursday night at the opening of the $250 million Eastside Cannery.
Officials in White Pine County have signed off on an agreement that will compensate the rural county for the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s tax-exempt ranching operations there.
RENO — A 32-foot cabin cruiser was quarantined at Lake Tahoe after a harbor master spotted invasive mussels encrusted on its stern as it was about to be hoisted into the water.
RENO — Fire managers say a blaze burning the Nevada-Idaho line is 10 percent contained. They estimate full containment of the East Slide Rock Ridge fire by Sept. 5.
