Twenty-five years ago, Greg Maddux was a senior at Valley High School, and the sun was rising on a baseball career that would be marked by greatness.
Mild-mannered on the mound, where his cerebral approach and Clark Kent-like looks earned him the moniker “The Professor,” Greg Maddux was anything but serious and studious in the clubhouse during his 23-year major league baseball career.
After Mike Sanford’s best season in four years as UNLV’s football coach, he was given a vote of confidence that was more than lip service.
It’s fairly common to see a combatant injured at a mixed martial arts venue. But the UFC is turning its attention to the injuries of true heroes.
Sarah Dexter watched as her Coronado teammates tried and tried, and tried some more to hit outside shots Monday.
Brittany Pozzi-Pharr liked being honored at the South Point on Sunday for winning her first barrel racing go-round in a National Finals Rodeo.
After 33 years without winning a division title, the Arizona Cardinals weren’t sure how to act Sunday when they finally broke that streak with a 34-10 triumph over the St. Louis Rams.
CARSON CITY — There are only 14 Republicans in the Assembly, representing just one-third of its members. But a ceremonial vote in Monday’s special session revealed that even they are far from unified.
What, you expected a bawling episode the likes of Brett Favre? There was a better chance that sports agent Scott Boras would forfeit his commissions this winter. Greg Maddux retired from baseball and onto the nearest first tee Monday the same way he constructed the finest pitching resume of his generation — with the face of a guy holding pocket aces and you none the wiser.
The diamond-shaped sign that greets travelers rolling into the Strip’s south gateway became more photo-friendly on Monday. Clark County officials opened a 12-space parking lot and a paved walkway on the traffic median holding the sign.
A federal judge has denied attorneys fees to a Reno lawyer who argued that his lawsuit on behalf of downwinders caused a Defense Department agency to cancel plans for a non-nuclear bomb test at the Nevada Test Site.
Las Vegas police, the FBI and other agencies Monday conducted a sweep of possible white-collar criminals with Eastern European ties that netted at least 20 local arrests.
WASHINGTON — U.S. partners in Europe are “overjoyed” at the idea of working with incoming President Barack Obama, though it is unclear how he might handle some major issues affecting the alliance, Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., said Monday after returning from a conference in Miami.
The man who could be put to death for killing a Las Vegas businessman apologized to the jury and the victim’s family in court Monday, saying he was “so sorry.”
CARSON CITY — A quick fix passed quickly through a special session of the Legislature on Monday, as lawmakers wrapped up a patchwork of solutions to a $340 million revenue shortfall in under nine hours.
People who are in danger of defaulting on mortgages with Countrywide or Bank of America can reserve time at a upcoming foreclosure prevention forum organized by the cities of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas.
Now this is a good Vegas story. Singer John Corabi has been tossed out of Caesars Palace twice because of the way he and his women were dressed, even though he took over Vince Neil‘s spot in Mötley Crüe for a few years, then became the singer for Ratt.
ELKO — An Elko woman convicted of starving her baby to death has been granted a new trial by the Nevada Supreme Court.
Music star Ne-Yo gives presents to nearly 1,000 children of low-income families.
Jazz pianist David Benoit brought bright, upbeat holiday greetings to a small but appreciative Artemus Ham Hall audience on Saturday.
I wondered if time and fame had changed Greg Maddux, but I should have known better.
O.J. Simpson was transferred Monday to a Nevada state prison to begin serving nine to 33 years for his felony convictions in a gunpoint confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers, a state corrections official said.
President-elect Barack Obama is a Democrat. In modern times, the teacher unions have formed an important core constituency for the party — so much so that unionized teachers and other unionized government employees can often form the largest bloc at any Democratic gathering.
Gene Paslov — perhaps Nevada’s most prominent unreconstituted California liberal who, as Nevada’s government-schools superintendent for nine years, directed public education’s headlong slide down the razor blade of mediocrity — is now offering his expert advice to the GOP.
Greg Maddux didn’t come home to retire from professional baseball as the game’s winningest living pitcher — he never left.