Nate Holloway didn’t waste time changing the outgoing message on his cell phone, switching it Saturday to declare himself a UNLV player.
In the aftermath of Manny Pacquiao’s decisive eighth-round technical knockout victory over Oscar De La Hoya on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden, the careers of two of boxing’s biggest names became clearly defined.
For the Las Vegas Bowl, Sunday was like Christmas morning for a child who’d already peeked at his presents.
In a city where poker players decide daily to go all-in or fold their hands, it’s fitting that Major League Baseball’s movers and shakers will engage in a high-stakes game of their own this week in Las Vegas as the city hosts baseball’s annual winter meetings for the first time.
Bull rider Kanin Asay’s encounter with a rodeo bull five months ago left him with a ruptured spleen, torn right ear and a broken rib.
The Seattle Mariners have a new-look brain trust. Jack Zduriencik was named general manager in October, and in November he hired Don Wakamatsu as manager.
It’s final exams week at UNLV, and freshman Oscar Bellfield should be at ease because he already has passed every test of his college career.
When the Washington Post and “60 Minutes” teamed up for news stories portraying online poker players as consumers who need protection from cheats, the impact seemed obvious. The odds of passage of U.S. Rep. Barney Frank’s bill legalizing and regulating online gambling became stronger.
Many of those who lined up Thursday morning for a little holiday help had never needed it before.
When the world changes, those who teach about the world must change, too.
Ramona Sanchez ran the half-marathon event in last year’s Las Vegas Marathon, finishing a respectable third in the women’s field.
Oscar Fever spiked up so high last week that boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya — all good looks and “Golden Boy” mystique — had nowhere to go but down during Saturday’s fight of the year, succumbing to a humiliation on the level of when Brad Pitt dumped Jennifer Aniston on a thousand tabloid covers.
How bad have things gotten for Republicans in Nevada? Pretty soon, they won’t have a home in Las Vegas.
WASHINGTON — After Roger Suarez’s eldest son died in Iraq two years ago, the grieving father buried him in his homeland of Nicaragua and tried to move on.
The nastiest Las Vegas breakup in years has the city buzzing with speculation.
Remember all the campaign fuss surrounding the expression “lipstick on a pig”? President-elect Barack Obama is prepared to apply the red stuff to the kisser of a familiar oinker and call it an “economic stimulus.”
There’s a little-known fact about Barack Obama that, if exposed, would bring untold shame to the president-elect.
