Losman ticketed for UFL, Las Vegas

The Las Vegas franchise in the fledgling United Football League doesn’t have a nickname, nor has it sold a ticket. But it appears to have a starting quarterback.

NHL in Las Vegas still a dream

Gary Bettman has a job, so it’s not as if the NHL commissioner was running for some political office when speaking hypothetically this week.

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

Repeat MVP Ovechkin heats up award shindig

Reprising his “hot stick” celebration, Alex Ovechkin turned the NHL’s Hart Memorial Trophy into the “Hot Trophy” on Thursday at the NHL Awards show inside the Pearl Theater at the Palms.

IN BRIEF

FOOTBALL

Chuck Trickle eyes final go-round

Chuck Trickle expects to be around Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s Bullring for many more years, but Saturday is the last time he expects to be driving a race car at the track.

Filly foils the bridge jumpers

The one sure thing in horse racing is there are no sure things. This was proven again by Indian Blessing in the Desert Stormer Handicap at Hollywood Park on Sunday.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT HOLLYWOOD PARK

Yeah, fighters draw the ladies

Comedian Joe Rogan provides color commentary for the UFC, so he has befriended many fighters. He says the best fighters are the nicest guys. And they attract groupies as much as rock stars do.

Driver subject of earlier reports

The Clark County School District bus driver arrested this week after a 5-year-old girl said he sexually abused her in her home was the subject of previous complaints from several students who alleged that he touched them, according to a police report.

Herrera’s freedom moves up

Former Clark County Commissioner Dario Herrera was hammered with a 50-month prison sentence after a jury convicted him of charges related to accepting bribes from a Las Vegas strip club owner.

CORRECTIONS

A story about new Las Vegas Councilman Stavros Anthony in Thursday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal contained an incorrect council vote tally on a proposal to include in the minutes the fact that the state Taxation Department had approved the city’s plan to seek $276 million to build a new city hall. The vote was 5-1, with Anthony opposed.

Man awaits extradition in slaying

A 25-year-old reputed gang member was arrested in New Mexico on Tuesday and awaits extradition to Southern Nevada in connection with the slaying of a 21-year-old man beaten to death during a gang initiation known as “jumping in,” U.S. Marshals said.

New state laws target gang activity

CARSON CITY — During the 2009 legislative session, Nevada lawmakers cracked down on gang members trying to recruit minors and required school districts to establish policies barring criminal gang activity on school grounds.

Shooting range in planning

When hundreds of Nevada Army National Guard soldiers deploy to help fight the nation’s wars on terrorism, they are often sent for weeks at a time to Camp Roberts, Calif., to complete small arms training before they head overseas.

Mistress’s husband got employment assistance

Sen. John Ensign helped his mistress’s husband get two jobs during the time the Republican senator acknowledges carrying on an extramarital affair, an Ensign spokesman said Thursday.

Little opposition to UNLV hate crimes policy

There apparently was so little opposition Thursday to a once-controversial UNLV hate crimes policy that the leader of the committee that ordered the policy to be written in the first place practically had to beg for naysayers.

Proposal would keep pay raises for teachers

Teachers would get their pay raises — but not cost-of-living raises — for the next fiscal year in a tentative deal reached between the Clark County School District and the teachers union Thursday.

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