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BASEBALL

Academy plays ‘Take It’ like sketch comedy

If you’ve never seen Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s 1936 “You Can’t Take It With You,” then my guess is there are plenty of belly-laughs in store for you in the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Visual and Performing Arts’ production.

51s fall short to River Cats

The 51s allowed two runs in the sixth inning and four more in the seventh, losing to the Sacramento River Cats 7-4 Monday night in a Pacific Coast League game in Sacramento, Calif.

Trainers set contentious tone for Pacquiao-Hatton

Maybe Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton are simply too nice to trash-talk each other. Or maybe the fighters can’t get a word in edgewise amid their trainers’ verbal feud.

IN BRIEF

MOTOR SPORTS

Wranglers roll over Thunder

During the regular season, the Wranglers had one of the worst power plays in the league, converting a paltry 12.4 percent (44-for-356) of their chances.

With all his heart, ‘Gondo’ was UNLV

Here comes the call from death again, being its ironic self. A fight had just broken out during the Wranglers playoff game Monday evening at the Orleans Arena when the news of Glen Gondrezick’s passing arrived.

Forward Mitchell departs

A late bloomer in high school, DeShawn Mitchell was viewed as a potential recruiting steal when he signed with UNLV.

Training gets team ready for ricin

When a biochemist intent on suicide injected himself with the deadly poison ricin in 2003, Las Vegas authorities were unprepared and ill-equipped to handle it.

Strong quake adds to fears in Mexico

MEXICO CITY — A strong earthquake struck central Mexico on Monday, swaying tall buildings in the capital and rattling nerves in a city already tense from a swine flu outbreak suspected of killing as many as 152 people nationwide

Hardesty touts plan for mandatory mediation

CARSON CITY — About 340 lawyers have volunteered to serve as mediators to work with lenders to keep Nevadans from losing their homes to foreclosure, Nevada Chief Justice Jim Hardesty said Monday.

CORRECTIONS

In his Sunday column, editor Thomas Mitchell mistakenly stated that the 14th Amendment granted suffrage to free slaves. The 14th granted civil rights, while the 15th granted the right to vote.

Fish restoration effort reaches ‘bright spot’

Efforts to restore populations of endangered humpback chub in the Colorado River Basin appear to be working at one location in the Grand Canyon, a federal biologist said Monday.

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