Under normal circumstances, betting on rookie quarterbacks on the road is hazardous to your financial health. But there are exceptions to every rule, and Matt Ryan of the Atlanta Falcons is one.
Playing their first game in a week, the Wranglers looked like an entirely different team Friday night than they did in their first five games of the season — and, in many ways, they were.
Did you hear the one about the guy who makes snow for a living and who woke up one day to find himself a crew member for an NHRA team, handling everything from tires to rear suspension to repacking parachutes?
Senior fullback Collin Mooney is planning to make his final home game at Army a memorable one.
His name is sporting royalty in his native Mexico, and he aspires to do great things as his father did.
Any bull ride can leave a rider bruised, battered and bloodied. Even if he makes the eight-second buzzer, he still has to dismount safely, and bulls seem to get angrier when they unload their passenger.
In the first 11 years of Tim Wilkerson’s professional drag racing career, he won five NHRA national event titles — quite an accomplishment for a driver and team owner without major financial backing.
History was made Friday at the Sunrise Region cross country championship in Boulder City.
Between getting knocked unconscious and temporarily losing his vision, Omar Clayton took a beating at Brigham Young last Saturday.
More than 40 percent of Nevada’s voters had already cast their ballots before Friday, when some long lines at the polls marked the last day of early voting.
A five-day local and federal sweep of fugitive sex offenders has put 25 people in police custody and checked hundreds more for compliance with state sex offender regulations.
October’s stock market roller coaster ride for the gaming sector was not for the queasy.
CARSON CITY — Republican presidential candidate John McCain can forget about getting the youth vote — that is, the really youthful vote — in Nevada.
RENO — A cancer-stricken man with only a few months to live has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting a young relative in the 1980s.
Mayor Oscar Goodman spent Thursday morning with 400 children at the Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast and it was only 11:30 a.m., so I doubted he was impaired.
State Sen. Bob Beers is alleging in a lawsuit filed Thursday that his Democratic opponent and the Nevada Democratic Party libeled him in campaign fliers and TV spots this week.
Two seasoned politicians are locked in a tense matchup for a seat on the Clark County Commission.
With a program of works from Israel and the United States, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra brought solemnity and joy to its performance Thursday at Artemus Ham Hall.
CARSON CITY — The happiest person in Nevada on election night could be Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas.
Barack Obama, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Michelle Obama, Rudy Giuliani: They’re all here in Nevada in the final days of the presidential campaign.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Padda has been assigned to handle complaints related to voter rights abuses and election fraud for the state of Nevada on Tuesday. Padda will work in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice.
There might yet be hope for the shuttered Crazy Horse Too topless club.
