It will come Saturday evening at San Diego State, the most significant football game UNLV will have played in eight years. But regardless if the Rebels win or lose against the lowly Aztecs, whether they become bowl eligible or finish two games under .500, Mike Sanford’s future as head coach should be even more solidified come Sunday morning.
BOULDER CITY — When Josh Vornsand woke up Sunday and drove to Boulder Creek Golf Club, winning the Clark County Amateur wasn’t foremost on his mind.
On an off day for his players, UNLV basketball coach Lon Kruger reported to work as usual Sunday. He was not exhausted after a sleepless night spent worrying about his team.
Bill Lunde had given up on his dream of playing on the PGA Tour and had resigned himself to being a working stiff.
After further review, NFL officials had some explaining to do about a mysterious ruling on an apparent touchdown scored by Troy Polamalu of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
GARDNERVILLE — The burly man in old-time Western clothes tells the crowd about the time he owned an eastern Nevada cattle ranch larger than four Eastern states.
A 42-year-old Las Vegas man rampaged across the western Las Vegas Valley on Sunday afternoon in a 105-minute crime spree that ended with his suicide, Las Vegas police said.
I wanted to see the Las Vegas nightclub scene through the eyes of a tourist, and Dan was the perfect guinea pig. He’s a friend from Chicago, a 31-year-old editor of a marketing trade magazine. He was in Vegas once again for a trade show, so I whisked him around, and here’s what he saw this weekend:
Feel strongly about preserving arts and music education in the schools? Think student athletes should not have to pay to play sports? Want to keep innovative programs such as block scheduling and empowerment schools in place?
A furrowed mountain blocks all but a sliver of morning sun, casting a shadow across a Western-themed park and a cluster of neighborhoods.
WINNEMUCCA — Management has been faulted for an April accident at an underground gold mine east of Winnemucca that killed a miner.
The election is over, the holiday season is nigh and you’d think the feds wouldn’t be in the mood to indict. But the scuttlebutt is that Dr. Mark Kabins may be indicted before 2008 ends.
Tim Hyten bought his 16-year-old daughter a car in Detroit and drove it across the country with her to Southern Nevada two years ago. It was a bonding experience he’ll always cherish. He planned to relive the experience with his younger daughter when she turned 16. Those plans ended Friday night when 15-year-old Olivia Hyten was killed in a rollover accident in Henderson, which a witness said happened during a race between two groups of teenagers in pickup trucks.
Efforts to bring “Joe the Plumber” to the Global Gaming Expo have gone down the drain.
A 49-year-old motorist died early Sunday after crashing a sport utility vehicle into a block wall and a light pole in the northwest valley, Las Vegas police said.
An attorney for two North Dakota farmers argues they should be able to grow industrial hemp under state regulations without fear of federal criminal prosecution.
While Democrats and their global-warming groupies were campaigning for an alternative energy revolution — never mind the economic consequences of such an abrupt, expensive transition — federal scientists were confirming a discovery that could deliver enough affordable energy supplies to last a generation.
The gaming industry’s leading trade show, where the newest slot machines, management systems and other gambling-related products are unveiled to casino operators, opens this week at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Albertsons is closing two grocery stores in the Las Vegas Valley and will place about 120 employees from the stores at other locations, a union executive said Friday.
