The NCAA Tournament selection committee long has claimed it considers key injuries while weighing a team’s credentials for the field of 65.
Joe Cortez installed a boxing ring in his home a few years ago to keep him sharp as a referee.
It’s hard to say how UNLV will play this week when it moves next door to the Thomas & Mack Center for the Mountain West Conference women’s basketball tournament.
If it’s time for the World Baseball Classic, you know a pep talk dripping in red, white and blue from Tom Lasorda cannot be far behind.
BOISE, Idaho — Brandon Fields scored 19 points and Luke Babbitt 14 to lead UNR to a 69-60 win over Boise State on Saturday night.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson won his second consecutive bout, defeating Keith Jardine by unanimous decision in front of a sold-out crowd Saturday.
SAN DIEGO — As the regular season ended in anguish and more disappointment for UNLV, Lorrenzo Wade had reason to celebrate.
WASHINGTON — The House last week passed a housing aid bill that would allow bankruptcy judges to adjust the mortgages of financially stressed homeowners.
CARSON CITY — Lawmakers start their sixth week of the 2009 session on Monday with a state Senate hearing on a tax increase of up to 3 percent on hotel rooms in the Las Vegas and Reno areas to help deal with Nevada’s budget crisis.
Today’s TV Week was printed before Jewel dropped out of the upcoming season of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.”
So what did we learn from ABC’s “20/20” special “Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Returns”? For starters, Roy Horn insists his miraculous recovery is far from over.
Americans are selfish, impatient motorists oblivious to their surroundings and to other drivers.
RENO — Prosecutors are investigating whether an off-duty Reno police officer found passed out in his car last month was drunk and why responding officers waited to get help from another police agency.
Henderson Constable Earl Mitchell pounds on the front door of a foreclosed home that three years ago sold for more than a half million dollars.
DURING CHILD MOLESTER CHESTER STILES’ TRIAL, defense attorney Stacey Roundtree grilled an FBI agent about the kind of investigations the agency does.
In late 2005, just before leaving town for the holidays, then-Undersheriff Doug Gillespie sat down to lunch with Clark County Sheriff Bill Young.
When Rodkesha Thomas received $50 cash last year from the Clark County district attorney’s office, the crack addict had one thing on her mind: getting high.
INCLINE VILLAGE — The American Civil Liberties Union is protesting a local governmental agency’s vote to rescind health care insurance benefits to domestic partners of employees.
The Plaza marquee shouts “The Rat Pack is Back!” but one foot inside the theater I can tell I’m joining “The Georgie Levine Show” already in progress.
Had Las Vegas police been left alone to investigate when an armed, off-duty officer is alleged to have threatened an umpire after a softball game, what might have happened?