Basketball star Lisa Leslie might not be retiring just yet, not until after this upcoming Los Angeles Sparks season, but her announcement was time for those around her to reflect and make historical comparisons.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a dominant performance, New Mexico senior Tony Danridge took over the game.
UNLV’s women’s basketball team walked into Cox Pavilion on Saturday to face an opponent that won the teams’ prior meeting by 26 points and was ranked No. 23 two weeks ago.
Dantley Walker scored 45 points Saturday, but Lincoln County’s sophomore guard would trade them all for another try at the free-throw line.
When he transferred from Mojave to Las Vegas High before the school year, Trey McElhaney joined the Wildcats well aware of their eight straight Class 4A Sunrise Region wrestling titles.
As pleased as Roy Englebrecht was with the turnout for his boxing card last month at Primm Valley Resorts, he believes Saturday’s boxing-mixed martial arts tournament at the Star of the Desert Arena will trump the 4,000 who turned out to watch Yuriorkis Gamboa fight.
Boulder City had seven individual champions on Saturday to capture the team title at the Class 3A Southern League wrestling meet.
Computerized scorekeeping, high-definition plasma TVs and text-messaging are second nature to bowlers of Sean Rash’s generation.
Returning to the top of Nevada wrestling has been Cimarron-Memorial’s goal this season.
RENO — Jahmar Young scored 17 points and Wendell McKines hit a 3-pointer with 58 seconds to play, lifting New Mexico State to a 62-60 victory over UNR on Saturday.
WASHINGTON — Television viewers will have another four months to make sure their older TVs are converted to receive digital signals as the result of legislation the House finalized last week.
With longhairs throughout the lobby, The Joint closed with a very audible bang Saturday night at the Hard Rock. Opening with “Kickstart My Heart,” metal stalwarts Mötley Crüe shuttered the venue with lots of pyrotechnics and fists in the air.
RENO — Nevada should drop its opposition to a proposed nuclear waste repository and welcome the federal money as a way to help solve its budget crisis, business leaders were told at a conference Friday.
CARSON CITY — Why do some Las Vegans drive 80 miles every week to a gas station in Dolan Springs, Ariz., or 40 miles to a convenience store on the California side of Primm?
JOHN 3:16 COOK, WHO IS RUNNING FOR MAYOR of North Las Vegas, is making some unconventional campaign promises. Under “other information of interest to voters” on his candidate fact sheet, Cook, a colorful street preacher, advocate for the homeless and frequent political candidate, also known for his marriage to local witch Magickal Marissa, wrote: “I will marry, bury & baptize all!”
Yolande Walker, who lost her job as a commercial loan processor last March as the economy soured, stands on the third floor of the Henderson townhouse she purchased for $256,000 and talks about how she fights becoming homeless.
CARSON CITY — The head of Nevada’s Republican Party says four new Democratic legislators are being targeted in a “guerrilla” effort to head off any higher taxes by chipping away at the Democrats’ veto-proof 28-14 majority in the Assembly.
A team of students from Reed High School in Sparks will represent Nevada in a national competition based on their knowledge of American rights and responsibilities.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers start their second week of the 2009 session on Monday with a review of Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons’ plan to save money by abolishing the state’s Consumer Health Assistance Office.
The state’s budget mess took center stage in Carson City as the 75th session of the Nevada Legislature got under way Monday.
A tour bus driver had tried to fix a problem door and was blinded by the sun’s glare just before the bus crashed south of Hoover Dam last month, killing seven passengers, an investigator said Saturday.
Donny Osmond was on the telephone, hoping to clear up some confusion about the “Dancing With the Stars” story that caused him some grief.
The proposed transformation of a rocky, weed-strewn piece of dirt into a cemetery with a mausoleum and funeral chapel inspires both hope and dread.