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?

CORRECTION

Individuals cited in Jeff Wolf’s column Friday who were in a fight at the Daytona 500 in 1979 were misidentified. They were Cale Yarborough and brothers Donnie and Bobby Allison.

Doctors’ licensing irritating

He has four U.S. cancer vaccine patents, has published more than 320 articles in peer-reviewed science journals and foots a résumé that includes the University of Pittsburgh’s Cancer Institute.

IN BRIEF

alternative fuels initiative

Exaggerated voter scandals from ACORNs grow

The partisans at Mr. D’s Bar and Grill, official Dallas Cowboys country on Rainbow Boulevard, must have been momentarily elated to hear that members of their favorite football team had moved to Las Vegas.

Top News

Las Vegas police launched a nationwide search for 6-year-old Cole Puffinburger, who they say was kidnapped Wednesday from his northeast valley home as ransom for millions of dollars in drug money stolen by the boy’s maternal grandfather.

Local debates do little to illuminate

Recent television appearances by local candidates — sometimes passed off as debates — have hardly given voters much to think about.

Socialists among us

A week ago today, the putative editor of the Las Vegas Sun came out of the closet and declared himself a socialist.

‘Itching for a change, and they don’t care what it is’

In the Oct. 7 debate between half the presidential candidates who will be on your Nov. 4 ballot — no candidates who disagree with the “Big Banker Bailout” were allowed — John McCain said health care is “a responsibility.” Barack Obama said “health care is a right.”

Barack Obama on the line

A couple of weeks ago Mike Ross, a conservative Democratic congressman from conservatively Democratic southern Arkansas, picked up the phone in his Washington office. It was Barack Obama calling.

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