Everyone loves a parade, especially the people of Philadelphia who haven’t had anything to cheer about in, oh, about a quarter century or so.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Kyle Busch overpowered the field Saturday in the NASCAR Nationwide race at Texas Motor Speedway, winning in the second-tier series for a record-tying 10th time this season.
One thing Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler likes to do is brag about the power of his right arm. Another thing he does often is show it off.
In an effort to light a fire under his fading team, Jacksonville Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio ripped his players last week for sloppy play.
Preseason rankings are mostly meaningless, and UNLV senior guard Wink Adams readily acknowledges that. He also admits he watches the polls closely.
Fans who plan to purchase the pay-per-view telecast of the Dec. 6 showdown between Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao might be able to watch the fight for virtually nothing.
First came the curse of the Billy Goat, then the curse of the black cat, then Steve Bartman. Newest entry into the Chicago Cubs’ Hall of Hexes is the tattoo that Cubs fan Jimmy Burroughs received in a Tennessee tattoo parlor in July.
Thrilled to see him at the starting line a year ago at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, John Force’s legion of fans jumped to their feet and cheered as he was helped out of a truck.
They begin to occur in a college football coaching’s staff third season and increase in the fourth. Measuring games. Those weeks when it is determined where your program stands in relation to the best in its conference. Those weeks when you discover how far you have come and how far you must travel to be considered valid.
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Matt Vanda picked up where they left off in July, and the result was virtually the same as in their first match — minus the controversy.
Tony Schumacher clinched his fifth consecutive and sixth overall NHRA Top Fuel championship Saturday, and he didn’t coast to get there.
A game that had the NFL schedule makers drooling several months ago is not so attractive in November. The New England Patriots are visiting the Indianapolis Colts — and, oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Even with no margin for error, UNLV figured it had a reasonable chance to win its final three games against a soft schedule and become bowl eligible.
Getting injured turned out to be one of the best things to happen to bull rider J.B. Mauney, who suffered broken ribs, a lacerated liver and a bruised kidney and spleen in June 2005.
If ever a state had reason to blush like a schoolgirl, it’s Nevada.
If you haven’t heard — or are really good at using your remote control to flip off those TV political ads — the country will elect a new president Tuesday.
In a last-minute blitz to win the Silver State, a flurry of presidential candidates, their running mates and their supporters descended on the valley or announced plans to come here before Tuesday.
State Sen. Bob Beers, R-Las Vegas, has filed and cease-and-desist order over a television advertising spot that he claims uses a subliminal image of a gun pointed at the candidate’s head.
With three days left in a heated presidential race, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani spoke Saturday to campaign workers in Henderson to motivate a final push for more Republican votes.
Two days after state Supreme Court candidate Deborah Schumacher returned a controversial contribution from a Las Vegas attorney entangled in an investigation, a political action committee bearing her name accepted another donation from the attorney.
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. — The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is beginning tests to see if a common bacteria can kill an invasive mussel threatening to spread across the West’s waterways and damage systems that deliver water to millions of people in the region.
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has come a long way since he first campaigned in Nevada nearly two years ago.
