LARAMIE, Wyo. — The UNLV women’s basketball team squandered an 11-point second-half lead, then rallied in the final minutes to beat Wyoming 71-64 on Saturday.
UNLV entered Saturday’s game with its coach fuming about recent defensive efforts and knowing it had to face a player who doesn’t have bad nights against the Rebels.
Being the hero once wasn’t enough for Henderson International’s Danny Moerman on Saturday night.
Anger was motivating UNLV senior Wink Adams. For two weeks, he did a lot of head shaking and scowling, wondering why everything was going wrong.
Adams took out his frustrations on Saturday night, helping the Rebels make a turn in the right direction.
If the loss at Texas Christian and the debacle at Colorado State proved anything, it’s that the separation from upper to lower tier in Mountain West Conference basketball isn’t as obvious this season.
RENO — Freshman Luke Babbitt scored 22 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to lead UNR to a 65-60 victory over Fresno State on Saturday.
Missing in action for part of the season, running back Willie Parker is emerging as a major factor for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the postseason.
In many cities, the word redevelopment is reserved for decaying downtowns and old neighborhoods lost to crime and neglect.
It lacked the applause of a campaign kickoff — I’ve heard louder applause at funerals — but I’m betting Gov. Jim Gibbons used Thursday’s State of the State speech as the unofficial start of his re-election bid.
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted last week to release $350 billion in federal bailout funds to the incoming Barack Obama administration, the second half of an initiative that so far has failed to brake the country’s economic slide.
WASHINGTON — As if Saturday wasn’t remarkable enough — getting to ride in a rail car on a historic whistle-stop tour through grand old cities and chatting with political celebrities and journalists from around the world — Rosa Mendoza fell numb when she heard her name called out in a speech before thousands of people.
The state of the state? Grim, judging from the drastic cuts proposed Thursday by Gov. Jim Gibbons.
One day before the country marks Barack Obama’s inauguration, Las Vegas will honor another famous black American during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade.
I’m sometimes asked what’s the worst traffic situation in the Las Vegas Valley outside of Las Vegas Boulevard.
The fist driven into the right side of nurse Marilou Tan’s jaw made her feel as though her head might be ripped from her neck.
The 52 Miss America contestants went down the wrong road on their first Saturday night in Sin City.
Las Vegas treats relics of communism and the Cold War like so many curiosities.
RENO — A teenager was arrested Saturday on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter after a collision during a chase in Reno killed two passengers in the bed of his pickup and critically injured another, police said.
A company with a multimillion-dollar contract to install fire systems at the Strip’s massive CityCenter complex is under investigation by the state fire marshal for questionable maintenance at Southern Nevada locations including a Las Vegas seniors home and three hotel-casinos.
WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH’S WAX LIKENESS was replaced Thursday by one of Barack Obama at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, studio artists D.P. Shapiro and Andrea Pavles reminisced.