Some nights Oscar Bellfield plays like Oscar Robertson, making smart decisions and making his teammates look good.
The UNLV women’s basketball team shot 25.9 percent from the floor, and Colorado State made two second-half runs to coast to an 85-55 victory Saturday in a Mountain West Conference game in Fort Collins, Colo.
In the reserve role he has learned to like and play well, senior guard Mareceo Rutledge provided the jump-start UNLV needed Saturday night.
The list was impeccably prepared, because it seems as if Brad Stirling doesn’t do anything in a lackluster manner when it comes to UNLV basketball. The names were neatly written down the side of one page, all those Rebels players from the 1960s.
For the second consecutive year and fourth time overall, Steve Carp of the Review-Journal has been selected as Nevada Sportswriter of the Year for 2008 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
Wayne McCullough’s return from retirement didn’t go the way he had planned. But that doesn’t mean the former world bantamweight champion is giving up.
Two 12-time PBA Tour champions will try to deny two higher seeds their first titles today in the finals of the U.S. Bowling Congress Masters at Cashman Center.
WINNEMUCCA — After having an off day by its standards, Cimarron-Memorial bounced back Saturday to win the school’s fifth Class 4A state wrestling championship in seven years.
It is nothing new for pawnbroker Rick Harrison to see a customer whose shivering has more to do with too much Jim Beam and just plain bad luck at the casino tables than it does with a cold snap.
Dennis Griffin admits he’s no Shakespeare, just a retired New York health care fraud investigator who had a story to tell and caught the writing bug when he retired in 1994.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — He’s the most notorious inmate at the Mohave County Jail, segregated for the crimes he is accused of and the name he has built for himself. Most of his fellow prisoners know him from the news, though they’ve never seen him in person.
RENO — Skiers and farmers rejoiced after another storm dropped more than 2 feet of snow in portions of the Sierra Nevada, but the range’s snowpack still is below average so far this winter.
RENO — A panel of local officials has approved a $7.2 million river restoration project at the former site of the infamous Mustang Ranch brothel east of Reno.
WASHINGTON — Heeding a call from President Barack Obama, Congress last week sent to the White House a $787 billion bill combining a broad range of tax breaks and fresh federal spending to create jobs and respond to the nation’s economic crisis.
Call it a unique kind of most wanted list or simply an attempt to clamp down on the area’s worst-kept secret.
In our society, there may be no greater example of government intrusion into the lives of citizens than transportation.
Yoshi Cooper said he was 11 when his mom handcuffed him inside a closet for three months, freeing him only to go to the bathroom.
Chef Paul Bartolotta‘s former restaurant is in the news a lot these days.