Jeg Coughlin Jr. won’t have to rely on slipping into a bobsled to satiate his need for speed this weekend.
If veteran quarterback Kurt Warner and the Arizona Cardinals are just misfits stumbling into a Super Bowl and waiting to get exposed, the betting public is not seeing it. The Pittsburgh Steelers are favored by 61/2 to 7 points over the Cardinals in Sunday’s game at Tampa, Fla., and most of the early wagering at Las Vegas sports books has been on the underdog.
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UNLV’s basketball players get to experience twice a season what their football counterparts go through — a week to prepare for an opponent.
TrackNet’s blackout in Nevada could last a week, a month or a year — it’s anybody’s guess. But there’s one thing I would tell TrackNet: You need Nevada a lot more than Nevada needs you.
Glen Gulutzan has four little ones at home. He knows all about the emotional roller coaster kids can ride on a daily basis.
In 1973, Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in a tennis match billed as the “Battle of the Sexes.”
The path to fame and fortune for young Canadian athletes usually begins the first time they lace up a pair of ice skates.
Many high school basketball teams would panic with their leading scorer in foul trouble.
The Clark County School District, Medicaid, state government, food stamp aid and transportation programs would benefit under the economic stimulus bill passed by the House of Representatives this week.
Be honest. You watch the Super Bowl for the commercials, right?
Tuition at Nevada’s colleges and universities will probably go up next year. There’s wide agreement on that.
But will it rise 8 percent? Ten percent? Twenty five percent?
Could it possibly go up 225 percent?
“Oh no,” said Jim Rogers, the higher education system’s chancellor. “We wouldn’t have any students left.”
North Las Vegas police on Thursday released a sketch of a person of interest in last week’s slaying of a Pizza Hut deliveryman, an act that Chief Joseph Forti described as “tragic” and “senseless.”
So far, the biggest Super Bowl bet someone has placed at an MGM Mirage casino is nearly a half-million bucks, says Jay Rood, MGM’s race and sports director.
ELKO — A mining reform bill similar to one that passed the U.S. House last year but failed to get out of the Senate has been reintroduced in the House.
Las Vegas police earlier this month recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars in jewelry belonging to Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a former U.S. senator from Colorado.
Petitions challenging the city of Las Vegas’ redevelopment plan and a proposed new city hall have enough signatures to proceed, the Clark County Election Department said Thursday.
There are rumblings that a villa being renovated at Wynn Las Vegas is the future home of Steve Wynn and his British girlfriend.
Term limits will keep Henderson City Councilman Jack Clark from defending the Ward 3 seat he has held since 1993. Now the race is on to replace him.
An ailing real estate market could cause property tax revenue to stay flat or even dip in Clark County, a prospect that longtime officials say is unheard of and troubling.
• A story in Thursday’s Review-Journal on the Yucca Mountain Project misstated the expiration date for a stopgap bill funding the project. The bill expires on March 6.
A legislative subcommittee will support having business court judges publish decisions instead of pushing to establish a Chancery or business court, a report issued Wednesday by the Legislative Counsel Bureau shows.
There was no escaping the harsh realities of the nation’s deepest recession since the 1980s at Preview 2009, the annual economic outlook presented Thursday by the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.
When Frederick and Mary Vonseydewitz were arrested earlier this week on multiple charges of sexual abuse of minors, it wasn’t the couple’s first encounter with police regarding those kinds of accusations.
WASHINGTON — Nevada’s senators staked out opposing sides Thursday as the Senate began positioning for the big debate next week over President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan.