It is in their hands now for the first time in what seems an eternity. Eight years, really. But what a long, painful, frustrating eight it must have been for those who follow UNLV football. Think of the world’s incessant wait for Tom Cruise to take up scientology full time and try ruling the universe in anonymity. That long.
The Las Vegas Motor Speedway dirt track roars to life tonight with the 11th annual Duel in the Desert, featuring more than 150 IMCA Modifieds competing for two nights on the half-mile oval.
Only an idiot would have picked someone other than Jimmie Johnson or Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon to win the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup championship.
The ball was sailing toward the end zone and the waiting hands of David Leonard, and it appeared Wyoming would rally to catch UNLV in the fourth quarter Thursday.
When The Meadows’ football team headed to Utah State this past summer for training camp, coach Frank DeSantis had designs on a run-heavy, single-back offense.
Any handicapper who says jockeys don’t make a difference hasn’t been watching Rafael Bejarano ride on a day-to-day basis. His dominance of the Southern California jockey colony in his first year out west is truly remarkable.
In England, a mistake by a soccer goalkeeper that leads to a goal is referred to as a “howler.”
After a slow offensive start, Bishop Gorman’s football team found its groove.
A fake punt at Brigham Young was a disaster and helped cost UNLV the game. On Thursday, a fake punt might have saved the Rebels’ season.
Two years ago, the Calgary Flames compiled one of the NHL’s best home records, only to finish with one of the league’s worst road records.
Odd news alert: Howie Mandel of “Deal or No Deal” owns some City Stop gas station-convenience stores in Las Vegas. If you fill up your tank or buy gum there, you’re contributing to the economy of Howie Mandel.
Las Vegas City Manager Doug Selby is leaving the post he’s had since 2002 because he’s “ready to do something different,” he said Thursday.
CARSON CITY — Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki said Thursday he’s considering a run against U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in 2010.
CARSON CITY — Clark County Democrats now chair eight of the state Senate’s nine committees, Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford of Las Vegas announced Thursday.
A juror in a recent Las Vegas murder case sent one defendant sexually explicit letters and visited him at the county jail.
A 19-year-old self-confessed gang member was sentenced Thursday to spend 10 to 25 years in prison for killing a father of two children during a street robbery in North Las Vegas.
WASHINGTON — Bob Herbert, a senior policy adviser to Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., is being considered to head the Federal Aviation Administration once President-elect Barack Obama takes office early next year.
A man might have used a hammer as a weapon during an early Thursday altercation that led to the death of a woman in the southwest valley, Las Vegas police said.
A story in Thursday’s Review-Journal on a possible strike by American Medical Response emergency medical services personnel incorrectly described the availability of paramedic transport units in the Las Vegas and Clark County fire departments. The Las Vegas Fire Department has 20 paramedic transport units, or teams, and nine reserve transport units. The Clark County Fire Department has 24 paramedic transport units and two paramedic fire engine units that can treat patients but not transport them.