UNLV has a men’s basketball team today preparing not for the NCAA Tournament but rather a first-round National Invitation Tournament matchup at Kentucky for one reason.
Before his team teed off Sunday in the final round of the Southern Highlands Collegiate Championship, UNLV men’s golf coach Dwaine Knight gave his players a history lesson.
NEW YORK — Passed over by the NCAA Tournament selection committee, Saint Mary’s didn’t even manage a top seed in the National Invitation Tournament.
Southern California overcame more than a 15-point halftime deficit Saturday to win the Pacific-10 Conference men’s basketball tournament. The Trojans also had to overcome being seated in the Los Angeles Clippers’ locker room at Staples Center.
When he took a shot at predicting UNLV’s immediate future, senior guard Wink Adams hit 50 percent.
With junior stars Chase Budinger and Jordan Hill leading the charge, Arizona figured to be a dangerous team in the postseason.
Contending O.J. Simpson was dealt an injustice, the brother of the football star’s former girlfriend is soliciting money to appeal Simpson’s conviction and prison sentence on kidnapping and armed robbery charges.
Felony charges against a former College of Southern Nevada professor were dismissed last year after he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor battery charge.
North Las Vegas Mayor Mike Montandon’s campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2010 is gearing up.
Isaac Escobedo has a prosthetic leg. But you wouldn’t know unless you lifted his right pant leg, revealing the red flame design on the artificial limb. The first-grader walks, jumps, squats and sits like your average 6-year-old. But where Isaac, a cancer survivor, differs from other amputees is his prosthesis doesn’t attach in the upper thigh area, which typically requires an uncomfortable belt around the waist and causes a noticeable limp. Isaac’s prosthesis stops where his knee once was located, the result of a rare procedure known as rotationplasty.
In 2005, the parcels of land where the World Market Center and the Allure condominium tower are located generated, together, a little under $171,000 in property taxes. In 2008, the combined tax bills, which include revenue going to schools and local and state governments, totaled $4.8 million.
The striking numbers are at the heart of the case the city of Las Vegas is making to defend its redevelopment program, which provides incentives to those who bring development into a defined area or make improvements to existing buildings.
College kids who turned out by the thousands in January to whine, protest and generally annoy the heck out of the state’s governor are going to do it all again. But with less whining this time.
Three North Las Vegas City Council members, a former planning commissioner and a street preacher each want to be the city’s next mayor.
A few minutes after the NCAA Tournament pairings were unveiled Sunday afternoon, Ken White started crunching numbers with his team of oddsmakers at Las Vegas Sports Consultants.
A 52-year-old Las Vegas man was arrested Saturday for driving under the influence, hitting a motorcyclist who later died and attempting to flee the collision scene, Las Vegas police said.