The Boston Celtics-Chicago Bulls series that concludes today is more than simply entertaining. It might be the NBA’s greatest series ever.
Some experienced bettors try to downplay the Kentucky Derby as a crapshoot unworthy of a serious handicapper’s effort. Wynn Las Vegas sports book director John Avello disagrees.
Katie Moore just hoped to play her part this season as the lone freshman on Durango’s softball team.
Bishop Gorman baseball coach Chris Sheff called it “mind-boggling.” Ed Van Meetren was a proud father “just along for the ride.”
Floyd Mayweather Jr., the former unbeaten welterweight king who hasn’t fought since late 2007, will end his retirement to fight Juan Manuel Marquez on July 18 at the MGM Grand Garden, a source close to the fighter said Friday.
The trainers have waged a war of words for weeks. Now it’s finally time for the fighters to back up all that boasting.
• WHAT: 12 rounds, for Hatton’s IBO and Ring Magazine junior welterweight titles
• WHEN: 6 p.m. today
• WHERE: MGM Grand Garden
• ODDS: Pacquiao minus-255, Hatton plus-215
• TV: HBO Pay Per View (Cable 501/701); $49.95, $59.95 (HD)
Check back here for round-by-round coverage!
The Joint is new, but Urbano Antillon is the same devastating force he was in the Hard Rock hotel’s former venue.
Since setting franchise rookie records for the Los Angeles Angels in batting average (.293) and on-base percentage (.391) in 2007, when he was a Rookie of the Year candidate, outfielder Reggie Willits has dealt with his share of setbacks.
Unleashing punches at a machine-gun pace has made Manny Pacquiao a bona fide boxing star. No longer is he perceived as an undersized underdog.
The son of Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols pleaded guilty this week to one count of grand larceny auto. He was scheduled to go to trial next week.
CARSON CITY — State officials will have to make steeper budget cuts or increase taxes far more than anticipated since Nevada’s economy will continue to tank heading into 2010, according to tax revenue forecasts made Friday by the Economic Forum.
CARSON CITY — A Senate panel was told Friday that a bill stepping up state record-keeping to help keep guns away from the mentally ill has been revised to deal with earlier criticism that it didn’t protect Nevadans’ constitutional due-process rights.
Usually on show nights, Danny Gans joined his band and crew for a short prayer. But on Friday night, for the first time in years, they prayed without him.
Their numbers were smaller than in previous years, but their passion for a cause was as strong as ever.
Gov. Jim Gibbons continued to beat the no-new-taxes drum Friday, and was joined by a Henderson boat retailer who said that with sales and prices down along with the economy, the government sees more money from his business than he does.
Las Vegas is not challenging a recent Fremont Street Experience free speech ruling that went against the city and will instead draft new ordinances to regulate activities such as handing out fliers or promoting a cause at the downtown pedestrian mall.
Staring out my window at home, trying to write, I saw something I’d never seen before. A pretty woman, her hair pulled away from her face, was hurling my trash bag into a Republic Services trash truck.
Master impressionist onstage, Danny Gans left lasting impressions offstage as well inside the Las Vegas entertainment community. Gans was fondly remembered by fellow performers left shocked and saddened by the headliner’s sudden death Friday at age 52.
ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah — The Narrows area at Zion National Park is reopening.
Sheriff Doug Gillespie withdrew his opposition to keeping the new low-level offender jail closed for a year, ending a tense tug-of-war with some Clark County leaders.
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — At least one person has drowned in the Colorado River after three Arizona hikers jumped in during a visit to the Grand Canyon.
Danny Gans had just finished his show Wednesday when his manager Chip Lightman sent a text message.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Friday presented former Justice Robert Rose the first Legacy of Justice Award in Las Vegas.
An argument in an east valley apartment resulted in the fatal stabbing of a man Friday night.