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NEON THIS WEEK

Supersuckers at Beauty Bar

Campus Tour

On their honeymoon in 1984, Steve and Caroline Lake did something that lots of tourists do in Boston — they stopped to visit some of the area’s well-known colleges.

Air Force exposes UNLV’s defensive holes

If Mike Sanford is retained as UNLV’s football coach after this season, he might want to consider recruiting some defensive players.

IN BRIEF

BASKETBALL

BETWEEN THE LINES

BY MAL VAN VALKENBURG
REVIEW-JOURNAL

How do Chinese say ‘goon’?

Charles Wang, the Shanghai-born owner of the New York Islanders, has hired announcers to call games in Mandarin.

Stop-gap quarterbacks more prevalent than ever

It’s obvious the NFL has made a concerted effort in recent years to protect the most valuable player on the field. But it has been a fruitless exercise because quarterbacks again are dropping like flies.

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

Bucs too good for Seattle

As three-time Pro Bowl quarterback Matt Hasselbeck stays home to nurse his injuries, the Seattle Seahawks go on the road today for what could be another beating.

All signs point to Steelers

In his NFL career, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is 10-0 in Ohio. Barring a major surprise, he will add to that mark today.

HORSE RACING

OAK TREE AT SANTA ANITA

Timberlake, friends excite fans

The ladies clambered for the free roses the way drunk dudes dive for foul balls at Wrigley Field.

CONVEYING A MESSAGE

This past Friday morning, UNLV’s campus, homecoming week. A pile of plywood awaited its destiny behind the architecture building.

A Mother’s Struggle

The 4-year-old girl pleaded with her mother as they headed to her father’s home, even saying she wanted to hit him with a baseball bat.

Reporters’ Notebook

REPORTER COREY LEVITAN WAS SURPRISED WHEN DEBBIE LEE, the girl who beat him up in the sandbox outside fifth grade, found him via his new page on the computer networking site Facebook. (Actually, he reports being a little scared, too.) Levitan had just written about the beating in his September Fear and Loafing column.

TV stars appear for early voting

At first, the woman with the ghost in her front yard and tombstones all over the lawn didn’t recognize the Holllywood star standing on her front porch, asking if Josh was home.

Big day nears for Palin look-alikes

A Las Vegas strip club already has been asked the question: Can men enter Thursday’s Sarah Palin look-alike contest?

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