Of all the post-Triple Crown wrapup stories, the one I like best is seeing where the three classic race winners came from. Each spring, one typically looks to 3-year-olds who were stabled in California, New York and Florida, and from the big-name trainers.
It’s tempting to use this space to boast of a good prediction made before the season that Tony Stewart would win a race and make the Sprint Cup Chase for the championship.
The United Football League will announce logos and colors and nicknames and sponsorship deals for its four franchises in the coming weeks, another step in the process of selling the new venture to whatever fan base is created by more football in the fall.
As a senior center fielder, J.J. Sferra batted leadoff for UNLV. On the third day of the major league draft, he filled the same role.
Jason Lane hit two home runs, knocked in six runs and went 5-for-5 to carry the 51s to a 14-4 victory over the Colorado Springs Sky Sox on Thursday in a Pacific Coast League game at Colorado Springs.
It’s a good bet that Tim Donaghy has more than a few regrets. All he had to do was meet the low standards that the NBA sets for its officials and he could have had an easy life.
A Henderson physician who says he treated Danny Gans for pain told the Review-Journal on Thursday that the first and last time he wrote Gans a prescription for hydromorphone — the potent drug determined by the coroner to be the cause of the popular entertainer’s accidental death — was about five years ago.
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Las Vegas police investigating the death of a toddler found Wednesday in a trash bin near the Las Vegas Convention Center are seeking two “persons of interest.”
Former Congresswoman Linda Smith is out to make sure what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in the shadows.
The 20-year-old man who bound and gagged two toddlers in a south valley apartment garage Tuesday said he didn’t want the boys to hurt themselves while he left to watch a basketball game with a friend, according to a Las Vegas police report.
The Nevada Cancer Institute’s Board of Directors has elected Stephen J. Cloobeck to replace Heather Murren as chairman of the board effective July 1, a media release said Wednesday.
RENO — The number of foreclosures in Washoe County jumped in May after moratoriums on foreclosures imposed last fall expired.
The mortgage crisis gripping the Las Vegas Valley has left many homeowners disenfranchised and looking for ways to escape the quagmire.
It already ranked as the closest and most expensive municipal campaign in Henderson history, and it isn’t over yet.
Higher education Chancellor Jim Rogers officially told UNLV’s president Thursday that he wasn’t satisfied with his job performance and was going to tell the system’s governing board as much.
California tourists Angel Nieva and Lydia Nieva came to Las Vegas in May 2007 on a trip that ended in tragedy.
KISS frontman Gene Simmons has no love for Carlos Santana, the new headliner at the Hard Rock Hotel.
Today is Day 3 of CineVegas, Las Vegas’ annual film fest, and here’s the scoop so far: better movies than last year, but fewer celebrities pitching their films.
Nine-year-old Lily Closson said there are benefits to going to a school deserted by more than half of its students.
Glenn Trowbridge, who last week lost his bid to become Las Vegas’ next City Council member by a mere 10 votes, officially requested a recount on Thursday, saying voters deserve one.
With the Obama adminstration’s stance that Yucca Mountain is not an option for disposing the nation’s highly radioactive waste, Congress will revisit the process for choosing another repository site, one that probably will draw opposition similar to Nevada’s wherever it is.
