Freshman Jamie Smith had 17 points and 14 rebounds for her third straight double-double, leading the UNLV women’s basketball team to a 71-61 victory over UC Riverside on Sunday at Cox Pavilion.
The Wranglers gained some incentive before playing their third game in three days.
Some golf-related quotes of the year, as compiled by Bob Frisk of the Chicago Daily Herald:
SAN DIEGO — The mild, mild AFC West belongs to LaDainian Tomlinson, Philip Rivers and the rest of the San Diego Chargers.
Because of all the Super Bowl hype that surrounded the Dallas Cowboys and quarterback Tony Romo in early September, no team in the NFL qualifies as a bigger bust in late December.
Like so many gifts done up in ribbons and bows, scholarships are there for the taking.
The worst economic crisis in decades has record numbers of strippers showing up in Las Vegas.
RENO — A freight train derailment in Nevada will not disrupt rail service on one of the country’s main east-west lines as initially feared, Union Pacific officials said Sunday.
CARSON CITY — Veteran Nevada state Archivist Guy Rocha plans to retire before the state’s budget crunch forces him to preside over cuts that might gut the agency he has been dedicated to for 28 years.
A controversy over local control has split the ranks of the Nevada chapter of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, with a contingent of 10 board members resigning in protest last week over the ouster of the chairman.
WASHINGTON — Fewer law enforcement officers died in the line of duty in 2008 compared with last year, reflecting better training and tactics, two law enforcement support groups reported Sunday.
Motive? The prosecutors who indicted Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki don’t need to prove no stinkin’ motive.
In November, a last-ditch effort to slide “cost-of-living” salary increases for federal judges into the auto bailout legislation failed in Congress. That means judges are the only federal workers who won’t get some sort of pay raise in 2009.
It appears that the sorry situation in Zimbabwe is becoming too much for even the country’s African apologists to tolerate.
BILOXI, Miss. — When it comes to developing a new tourist destination on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, most respondents in a recent study said they would prefer a smoke-free casino.
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — An unusually weak Dungeness crab harvest is compounding the financial woes of West Coast fishermen who were struggling with depressed consumer demand and the unprecedented collapse of the Pacific chinook salmon fishery.