Shaquille O’Neal, in a shocking development, has admitted on radio that he has taken a performance-enhancing substance.
Palo Verde swimming coach Robert Nicholson said his teams have a motto this season: “The mission is clear, a clean sweep this year.”
WIMBLEDON, England — Having once refused to play at Wimbledon because of its stodgy traditions, Andre Agassi will get a unique look at perhaps the biggest change ever to come to the All England Club.
Jesus Magdaleno was doing fine fighting the way he was — trading power punches with opponents. But he decided his style needed a makeover.
Bishop Gorman’s baseball team was lucky to have a second chance at making it into the Class 4A state tournament.
This time of year arrives and Buddy Gouldsmith takes a stroll across hot coals, a tradition becoming more and more hazardous with UNLV’s latest losing baseball season.
Faith Lutheran’s Maya Barnes crouched at her position at shortstop, staring in disbelief at the outfield Saturday.
Lindsay Gulin pitched six strong innings, and Angel Salome drove in two runs Saturday to lead the Nashville Sounds to a 5-1 Pacific Coast League victory over the 51s at Herschel Greer Stadium in Nashville, Tenn.
Dominic Jones set two league meet records and won two other events to carry Spring Mountain’s boys to the Class 1A Southern League track and field championship Saturday at Overton.
Boulder City’s boys swim team captured the Sunrise Region title five years ago and has been trying to return to prominence since.
Faith Lutheran’s baseball team won the Class 3A state title two years ago, but a disappointing finish last season made the memory seem distant.
One afternoon earlier this month, Royal Wilcox sat in the machine shop at the Southern Desert Correctional Center and pondered his predicament.
On Easter Sunday, Nevada’s Episcopal bishop came to the struggling Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation in Northern Nevada with a message of hope. His visit brought hundreds from their homes and expressed the sacred and divine through the customs of two cultures.
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YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS AD WHILE PERUSING THE CLASSIFIEDS. It’s the casting call for last week’s bikini parade on The Strip marking the start of summer: “We are looking for models 21 and over for a historic event in Las Vegas NV. Must be able to walk from the Fashion Show mall down to the Wynn Hotel and Casino in a bikini then walk back to the mall and pose for a picture. This event will be in the Guinness Book of World Records. So that means you must be bikini ready.”
Legislators agreed to cut the higher education system’s state support by 12.5 percent over a previously approved budget, lower than the 36 percent cut in Gov. Jim Gibbons’ budget.
The main hurdle “The Lion King” will have to leap will be the test of time: 21/2 hours of it, to be precise.
Clark County voters would overwhelmingly support raising the sales tax another quarter cent to hire more police officers, according to a Las Vegas Review-Journal poll.
CARSON CITY — In a sign that Nevadans may see their own financial futures tied to those of their employers, residents decisively oppose raising the business payroll tax, cornerstone of the nearly $800 million tax package that has emerged in the Legislature, according to a poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
CARSON CITY — Despite concern it will fan feuds between neighbors, Assembly members voted 32-8 Saturday for a bill to limit how long one can chain a dog.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers open their next-to-last full week of the 2009 session on Monday with an outline of a nearly $800 million tax increase plan that they hope to finalize and send by the week’s end to the governor, who will veto it.
On the morning Essie Oten Reed was shot, she rose before dawn as usual and dressed for work as a housekeeper at Circus Circus. She had held the job 14 years and supported her family through good times and bad on a maid’s wages. That was October 2000.