Only eight teams advanced out the NCAA West Regional women’s golf tournament earlier this month in Tempe, Ariz.
The UNLV men’s golf team has set such a high standard of excellence in coach Dwaine Knight’s 22 years at the helm that anything short of reaching the NCAA Championships can be a tough pill to swallow.
Q. We have a problem at our weekly ladies play day and club tournaments with players who can’t seem to count the strokes they take on a hole. This is an ongoing concern since some of these women always get paired together and seem to win every week. Is there anything we can do about this? — S.P.
Most of the top players in the game understand that the way to permanently lower their scores is to improve their short game.
Back in 1989, Arnold Palmer helped create Angel Park Golf Club, a sprawling complex built around the desires — and limitations — of recreational golfers. Tough enough to challenge accomplished players, Angel Park’s two 18-hole courses were really conceived around the idea that most weekend warriors don’t have the length to play 7,000-yard tracks and will become frustrated hitting long irons on every par-4 approach. Two decades later, Angel Park continues to be among the valley’s most popular facilities, proving the strategy’s soundness.
Since getting drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the first round in 2006, outfielder Travis Snider had led a charmed baseball life.
As soon as the NBA playoffs begin, the game turns more ornery. Intensity increases. Emotions rise. Tempers flare. And the referees, charged with maintaining order on the court, use the one weapon in their arsenal that can keep the peace: the technical foul.
John Lindsey makes you a baseball fan again. He takes any indifferent emotions that might’ve developed over the years and returns them to those of a rooting interest.
Calling the trial of O.J. Simpson “fundamentally unfair,” lawyers for the fallen football star on Tuesday filed the long-promised appeal of his conviction on armed robbery and kidnapping charges.
A member of O.J. Simpson’s Las Vegas “dream team” is accused of causing a nightmare for another client who is behind bars on murder charges.
As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama prepared for a fundraiser Tuesday evening to help get Reid re-elected, about 100 protesters worked the Strip in hopes of preventing just that.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons on Tuesday vetoed a bill to require licensing for off-road vehicles and one requiring the state Health Division to prepare annual reports on the causes of major medical events.
In the aftermath of this week’s apparent nuclear weapons test by North Korea, President Barack Obama faces a daunting challenge to ensure rogue states don’t transfer a weapon or nuclear materials to a terrorist group.
President Barack Obama told a Las Vegas audience Tuesday night that if they like what he’s been doing in office, they have Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., partly to thank.
Construction for the Smith Center for the Performing Arts was kicked off Tuesday at a groundbreaking ceremony on the site at Bonneville Avenue and Grand Central Parkway.
CARSON CITY — Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford said Tuesday that he does not expect Gov. Jim Gibbons to veto his bill to require the city of Las Vegas and the Nevada Department of Transportation to commit as much as $70 million to reopen F Street under Interstate 15.
This week readers want to know whether there will be more work done on the Las Vegas Beltway near Aliante Parkway in the northern valley; and should motorists wait for the cones before merging at a lane closure.
The Las Vegas police officer who ran a red light on Saturday, injuring himself and a woman in another car, was identified as 40-year-old Robert Bradley.
CARSON CITY — Nevada officials have begun awarding contracts for “green jobs” training projects that will be funded by federal money, and one consulting contract for at least $48,000 has been awarded to a Clark County commissioner.
I think the answer to your question is Chic Hecht.
CARSON CITY — Lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to a proposed constitutional amendment that would let lawmakers call special sessions on their own, without having to get the governor to do so.
Everybody wants to talk hoops and make points with President Barack Obama.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers heard criticism Tuesday of a proposal from the secretary of state’s office that would increase penalties for offenses such as intimidating voters and interfering in the conduct of an election.
Las Vegas police are searching for a man who has stolen about $40,000 from several banks throughout the valley since early April.
Parents were horrified in September when news spread that a 6-year-old boy was kidnapped near Mackey Elementary School while he was walking home.