Boxing again provided a financial bonanza for Nevada in 2008, starting with three big bouts in the first four months and ending with the highly anticipated Oscar De La Hoya-Manny Pacquiao megafight.
RENO — Mac Hopson and Luciano de Souza each scored 16 points as Idaho turned back UNR 78-73 Saturday night in the Western Athletic Conference opener for both teams.
Wink Adams had plenty of tough shooting nights this season before he strained his lower abdominal muscle. So the UNLV senior guard couldn’t use his injury as an excuse.
Photos of an evidently out-of-shape David Beckham appear on the Daily Mail Web site, along with the headline: “Mind how you go old man … David Beckham left gasping for breath after rigorous training session with AC Milan.”
After allowing two goals in the first 3:36, Wranglers goaltender Kevin Lalande held Utah scoreless for the remainder of regulation and overtime, stopping 27 of 29 shots.
You place an X on the positive side of the ledger and move on. Watch the tape, break down all the mistakes, try to learn from them, take another deep breath and begin preparing for the next game. There’s not much else to do after such an escape.
After another dramatic finish at the buzzer, UNLV sophomore guard Tre’Von Willis was not in a celebratory mood.
Atmospheric pressure had a whole new meaning for KLAS-TV, Channel 8 weatherman Tedd Florendo during the New Year’s Eve broadcast.
RENO — Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki defended himself Saturday in the latest round of a public feud he is having with Gov. Jim Gibbons, a fellow Republican who had charged Krolicki went on a state-sanctioned trip to China for fun instead of promoting tourism.
I’ve tried to start this column 100 times. Each time I attempt to write about the death of brave 10-year-old cancer fighter Brandon Rayner, I always return to thoughts of my Amelia and her cancer struggle.
With 188 people under his command, Air Force Air Reserve Lt. Col. Kenneth C. Evans oversaw $38 million in construction at the Kirkuk Regional Air Base in northern Iraq.
The driver of a van was killed Saturday morning after driving the vehicle into the back of a tractor-trailer parked beside Interstate 15.
When Bill Runyon and Cashious O’Brien got married in early July, the two men shed tears of joy. At least in California, their devotion to each other was legally recognized.
He’s the Bedazzler in human form, a walking, talking rhinestone, his voice a husky summation of all that glitters.
STATELINE — Norma Thayer found paradise on the shores of Lake Tahoe three decades ago. Years later, a developer did the same thing.
Gregory Kamm of Las Vegas did close combat on the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. He didn’t think he’d have to fight just as hard to find a job in Las Vegas in 2008, after completing earlier this year his third deployment.
A BLOOD DRIVE WAS HELD AT THE HARD ROCK HOTEL on New Year’s Day. Officials said they weren’t worried about donors showing up with too much alcohol in their system after a night of New Year’s Eve revelry.
Art Goldstrom remembers the night in June 1980 when he and his wife, along with two other couples, were the first guests at Andre’s in downtown Las Vegas, named for chef and proprietor Andre Rochat.
CHICAGO — Illinois’ embattled governor complained through his spokesman Saturday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is guilty of a conflict of interest in that Reid telephoned him in early December to discuss the seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
There was a big ole party Wednesday in Las Vegas. Official estimates say 291,000 people showed up for New Year’s Eve festivities, halfway between last year’s number and the year before. A record 30,000 were at downtown’s Fremont Street Experience.
More than a few people are worried about a lawsuit filed two weeks ago to stop the ongoing Interstate 15 north widening project.
