Packers’ victory boon for books

A lot of critics questioned whether Aaron Rodgers was the best quarterback for the Green Bay Packers this season. It was the NFL’s biggest and most controversial issue in August.

Management: Event on solid footing for next year

As play concluded Sunday at TPC Summerlin, it was all smiles from the management team of the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

ON TV/RADIO

FOOTBALL

Ex-UNLV contingent grateful for coach

The shadow is the size of Bermuda. Dwaine Knight is OK with that. He has made a career of producing fantastic results as UNLV’s golf coach while existing in the same athletic department with a program whose popularity dwarfs all others like John Daly does Nicole Richie.

Turnesa proves good to last shot

It was supposed to be a cavalry charge to the finish Sunday at TPC Summerlin. Instead, Marc Turnesa managed to stay in front of the pack, and he was the one standing with the Waterford crystal championship trophy in the end.

Luck of 49ers LB just stinks

You’ve heard that a black cat crossing your path is bad luck.

Democrats rally to polls

Democrats outnumbered Republicans at the polls in Clark County by a margin of nearly three to one on the first day of early voting, according to the county Election Department.

Fall into mine shaft kills man

YERINGTON — A California man died Saturday after he fell into a mine shaft in northern Nevada.

Lifestyles of the rich, famous include freebies

Sometimes, rich people don’t have to spend money, because people give them so much stuff for free. Witness last week. Celebrities came to Las Vegas to perform at two big charity events, and in return, they went home with giant gift bags full of goodies.

Duck to water: Phelps and poker

Olympic swimming royalty Michael Phelps continues to possess the Midas touch.

IN BRIEF

HOMEMADE AIRCRAFT

Discovery of microbes deep inside Earth excites scientists

Duane Moser went looking for life near the bottom of the world’s deepest gold mines and found it thriving in a world of its own: a place with no sunlight to support it and water that’s millions of years old.

Election inquiry widens

Nevada authorities’ raid on a cramped Las Vegas storefront on Sahara Avenue has ballooned into a major partisan controversy on the eve of the presidential election.

Jack the Plumber has a word for Joe

Here in Nevada, Jack the Plumber has a message for Joe the Plumber: What’s wrong with taxes?

Clinton sees Obama victory

Former President Clinton told a Las Vegas crowd on Sunday that Democrats will win the election as long as American voters are focused on what’s important.

Nevada proceeds to deport inmates

RENO — Nevada officials have stepped up efforts to deport state prison inmates who are illegal immigrants, and have offered deals to some in order to get them out of the country, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported Sunday.

Reunion leaves father relieved

What Robert Puffinburger called “the most scary time in my life” ended Saturday night with the recovery of his kidnapped son.

CORRECTIONS

Frank Rosenthal created the first sports book in a Las Vegas casino, not the first sports book in Las Vegas as stated in Jane Ann Morrison’s column Saturday.

For the Assembly

As a reflection of Nevada’s electorate, the Assembly resembles a fun house mirror. Over the past decade, the number of registered Republicans and Democrats has remained almost even in this state. But horribly gerrymandered districts have distorted the state’s representation, giving Democrats 27 of the Assembly’s 42 seats.

Overseeing an evolution

In Las Vegas there’s a notion that change for the sake of change isn’t just good, it’s how to keep a joint alive.

Local bankers plan to issue preferred stock

Chief executives of some of the nation’s largest banks don’t like the idea of issuing preferred stock to the Treasury Department, according to national media reports, but some Nevada bankers are ready to jump on the product like a dog on a bone.

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