With one rocket shot from the top of the right circle, rookie left wing Mick Lawrence resurrected the Wranglers’ playoff hopes on Saturday in Stockton, Calif.
Bernard Hopkins insists he is not ducking Chad Dawson. But the 44-year-old veteran said if he’s going to continue fighting at his advanced age, his bank account better receive a substantial boost.
If the NBA playoffs were a popularity contest, the Lakers would be lining up today to raise another championship banner at Staples Center.
Freddie Roach on Saturday night did the predictable and the impossible.
James Stewart didn’t show up for a news conference Friday morning, but he was at Sam Boyd Stadium when it counted most.
Sounding more like a politician who had reclaimed his seat in government than a boxer who was coming out of retirement, Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced Saturday that he will pick up where he left off.
Trainer Freddie Roach predicted Manny Pacquiao would knock out Ricky Hatton in three rounds.
Unable to compete for the postseason until next year, the young Henderson International softball team expected to spend the season learning how good the competition is.
If his career path continues to ascend as expected, catcher J.P. Arencibia should be on his way to the Toronto Blue Jays in the not too distant future.
RICHMOND, Va. — Kyle Busch planned to open the bulk of his birthday presents when he returned home from Richmond International Raceway.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar launched a plan Saturday to spend $305 million for creating jobs on what he called the public lands’ “renewable energy frontier” to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil while at the same time restoring landscapes and wildlife habitat.
The state Legislature has been meeting for 90 days, but the real work is just beginning.
To the untrained eye the wind-blown Community Little League diamond tucked into a corner of Doolittle Park looks like an ordinary ballfield. But Ricky Towers calls it his field of dreams.
A bicyclist was killed after he darted into traffic and into the path of a car near downtown Saturday afternoon.
The deaths of two local icons, both in their early 50s, bracketed a sorrowful week for Las Vegas.
In another eerie twist, one of entertainer Danny Gans’ final acts was the completion of his autobiography on Wednesday, the day of his last show and two days before he died.
As the swine flu outbreak spreads throughout the nation, the man who was Clark County’s chief health officer for 36 years remembers a 4-year-old Southern Nevada girl who died of the virus in 1982.
CARSON CITY — With a vital revenue report in hand, Nevada legislators start the 14th week of the 2009 session on Monday with a joint meeting of Senate and Assembly budget panels trying to resolve their differences in proposed spending for the next two fiscal years.
The welcome mat is out, the paint is dry and the staff is ready.