RENO — Freshman Luke Babbitt scored 20 points to lead UNR over Oregon State 79-71 on Saturday.
RENO — Trailing by seven points with 28 seconds remaining, UNR was on the verge of forcing another overtime thriller against Boise State.
SAN DIEGO — A team that loses to San Diego State probably doesn’t deserve to go to a bowl anyway.
Pat Kenny has attended The Meadows school since kindergarten and remembers its run of five straight state football championships from 1997 to 2001.
The singing started long before Ricky Hatton entered the MGM Grand Garden ring Saturday and continued long after he stopped Paulie Malignaggi with an 11th-round technical-knockout in their junior welterweight bout.
Brady Whipple and Taylor Poulsen have been best friends since preschool and playing football together since the second grade.
Several NFL teams with weak resumes still have an opportunity to chart a path to the playoffs and make some noise.
The NFL season is full of ebbs and flows. Teams get hot, teams get cold, and it’s up to handicappers to figure out when to ride the winning or losing streaks and when to anticipate the trends will reverse.
Moapa Valley football coach Brent Lewis thought he could dodge an icy Gatorade shower by dumping the bucket in the final minutes Saturday night.
Today at Ford Field, the Detroit Lions will continue their quest for the NFL’s first 0-16 season against the franchise that gave the NFL its only 0-14 season, Tampa Bay.
Drifting around the perimeter, UNLV senior Joe Darger waited for the defense to lose sight of him. When he found an opening, Darger was looking to shoot at every opportunity.
With the economy continuing to nose dive, boxing in Nevada might be looking at major changes in 2009.
The word of the week was cuts, as state and local officials continued to wrestle with budgets decimated by the widening economic crisis.
WASHINGTON — The Senate last week finalized a bill that extends unemployment benefits by seven weeks, and by 13 weeks in states where jobless rates are higher than 6 percent.
AFTER HIS 16-YEAR-OLD SON WAS IMPLICATED in a street race that resulted in a fatal crash in Henderson, District Judge Donald Mosley issued a statement through local public relations firm Fierro Communications in which he states, “My heart goes out to the William’s family.”
One of the new restaurants at Steve Wynn‘s Encore hotel will pay homage to Frank Sinatra and another will feature walls that lift up and down, transforming the room throughout the evening.
Sandee Malina worked out a plan with her two young children: Whenever they heard the doorbell ring or a knock on the door, they were to run into a room with a phone and lock the door.
•The United Feature Syndicate crossword puzzle on the Variety page in Saturday’s Review-Journal was repeated from Friday. The correct crossword puzzle can be found on page 2A of today’s Review-Journal.
The children mill around tentatively at first as the afternoon’s long shadows soften the light in Child Haven’s inner yard.
How much money do you expect will be spent on transportation projects in Southern Nevada over the next 20 years? $500 million? $1 billion? $5 billion?
Generally, incumbent officeholders have the advantage in elections.
A multimillion-dollar real estate scam orchestrated by a pair of Las Vegans worked this way, federal authorities say:
Casino companies were caught spending money “like drunken sailors” when the economic downturn hit, Harrah’s Entertainment Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gary Loveman told attendees at the Global Gaming Expo here Wednesday. And many of the regional and destination resorts those companies were building with cheap credit were bringing in very low investment returns, Mr. Loveman told those attending the convention’s “State of the Industry” roundtable.