Way off on his first four shots, UNLV senior Wink Adams began to wonder if Saturday was going to be similar to so many other of his bad shooting days.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Referees overturned a basket by Brigham Young’s Charles Abouo at the buzzer, preserving No. 20 Arizona State’s 76-75 victory over the previously unbeaten Cougars on Saturday.
The Bishop Gorman boys basketball team missed out on the chance to win its own tournament last season. Consider the second time the charm for the Gaels.
As Arizona went into the victory formation with 1:17 left, fans in the west-side stands chanted “U of A,” and they later stormed the Sam Boyd Stadium field as the clock ticked all the way down.
Brigham Young long has been known as Quarterback U, having produced a seemingly endless string of successful signal callers.
As Shaquille O’Neal closes in on a rarefied career milestone — 5,000 missed free throws — John Hollinger of ESPN.com tried to put that feat in its proper historical context.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Maybe a defensive coordinator will work in basketball. But it sure helps when you’ve got a guy hitting almost every shot at the other end.
The UNLV women’s basketball team led No. 22 Oklahoma State by 10 points in the first half and trailed by one point at halftime.
You will hear more about the 3-pointers today, about Wink Adams busting his slump against Arizona’s basketball team, about the lead growing to as many as 22 points in the second half, about the Rebels earning what NCAA Tournament selection committee members would consider a quality win come March.
In a realistic sense, the Super Bowl participants — or at least one of them — will be determined today in a pair of games. Home-field advantage throughout the playoffs is on the line at the Meadowlands and in Nashville, Tenn.
A Britney Spears impersonator found out Friday that the competition between local gay nightclubs is getting toxic.
His tour in Afghanistan cut short by bullet wounds, Derek Bilodeau became a danger to himself and others when he came back to Las Vegas in fall 2007, his family said.
SAN DIEGO — A small plane crash Saturday killed two people in a rural, hilly part of northern San Diego County, authorities said.
CARSON CITY — The Department of Motor Vehicles’ new facial recognition system has led to the arrest of a second person on suspicion of using a false identity.
As the nation’s leadership transitions to a new administration, some people may fret about what the future holds.
Jesse Rivera loves his children. He and wife Amanda have three.
The group of Republicans gathered atop the velvety ridges of Yucca Mountain. It was a clear day, with perhaps 120 miles of visibility in every direction, from Telescope Peak to Skull Mountain, Jackass Flats to the Paiute Mesa.
Joseph Perez, who suffered head, neck and leg injuries during a 2003 uprising at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, felt overwhelmed after his discharge from the Nevada National Guard’s 72nd Military Police Company.
Federal authorities plan to seek the death penalty against the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that infiltrated the Nevada prison system, but all parties involved in the case have agreed to hold off until the nation’s new administration is in place.
Two boys, ages 12 and 13, sit side by side at a conference table as professor Rebecca Nathanson begins their first session of Kids’ Court School.
Clark County court officials are looking to start a specialty court to help some veterans who get in trouble with the law.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — Las Vegas developer Jim Rhodes’ effort to build a master planned community in northwest Arizona cleared a significant hurdle late Friday night.
SOME REVIEW-JOURNAL READERS believe everyone deserves a piece of the multibillion-dollar federal bailout, even low-level traffic offenders who don’t pay their tickets.
Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan routinely overcome horrid wounds and loss of limb, but equally formidable foes are the mental effects of head injuries, constant or repeated exposure to danger and making decisions of awesome consequence.
