Steven Luevano, reigning WBO featherweight champion, hasn’t fought since October and he’s eager to get back in the ring.
If you’ve ever wondered what it is about horse racing that keeps us coming back for more, just look to the Iraqi people. A fascinating Los Angeles Times story on the Baghdad Equestrian Club depicts how horse racing in Iraq has rebounded from near extinction and is thriving.
Bishop Gorman High School’s American Legion baseball team presses on despite losing first baseman/pitcher Jeff Malm.
The Faith Lutheran football team is ready to take its biggest leap yet this season to Class 4A. It also will join a Northwest League packed with perennial football powers such as Palo Verde, Cheyenne and Cimarron-Memorial.
It’s crunch time in NASCAR, and that’s not a reference to the hellacious crash during Monday’s Sprint Cup race.
Former Bishop Gorman High School first baseman/pitcher Jeff Malm agreed Thursday in principle on a contract with the Tampa Bay Rays, who selected him in the fifth round of June’s draft.
Seven months and two weeks ago, Rick Pitino stormed off the Freedom Hall floor without shaking UNLV coach Lon Kruger‘s hand after the Rebels’ upset of Louisville. Kruger said the snub was no big deal, and he was right about that.
Little League Baseball has suspended Legacy Little League manager Todd Slusher indefinitely for intentionally allowing a run to score in his team’s 12-9 comeback win over Glendale, Ariz., on Wednesday in the Western Regional Tournament in San Bernardino, Calif.
ELY — UNLV badly needs a stronger pass rush, a major reason why the Rebels signed junior defensive end B.J. Bell.
Clark County and legislative lawyers are wrangling over how strict a spending cap is for social services as the economic slump ratchets up the demand for aid.
An air quality advisory has been issued in Clark County because of smoke from wildfires in California.
Jeremy Piven took a long pull on a fat cigar, tilted his head back and blew a slow celebratory cloud of smoke into the air.
Like a lot of Las Vegas visitors, writer Joel Stein suffered from a bad case of bitter beer face after enduring the high cost of vacationing on the Strip in recent years. And who could blame him?
CARSON CITY — The Gibbons administration and legislators continued to take swipes at each other Thursday in a partisan dispute over who should control the state’s yet-to-be-named “czar” over federal stimulus funds.
CARSON CITY — Wildlife conservation and advisory board groups are crying foul over Nevada Wildlife Commission Chairman Gerald Lent and a move they contend is geared to stifle public comment before the board elects new officers today.
A new report on the growing racial isolation at public schools in West Las Vegas was “deja vu all over again” for a community tired of hearing about the problem and impatient for solutions.
Three men on Thursday pleaded not guilty to executing and robbing two alleged drug dealers in June.
Fear is being replaced by hope for the recovery of sophomore Rebel linebacker Bryce Saldi following a skateboarding accident.
Mayor Oscar Goodman once gave a key to the city to Ron Jeremy, who proudly keeps it on display in his house. But the key is only 6 inches, Jeremy tells me and laughs.
The city of Henderson has approved a $700,000 settlement in a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of the husband of an ice cream truck driver who was shot and killed last year by a city police officer.
A tour helicopter made an emergency landing Thursday at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, the National Park Service said.
A 23-year-old man was arrested earlier this week and charged with sexually assaulting an intoxicated 18-year-old woman Sunday in a Mandalay Bay parking garage.
A potential water war between Nevada and Utah might end in a truce before a single shot is fired.
A Las Vegas man accused of swindling elderly residents in a real estate investment scheme handed over a $200,000 check and was given back his passport Thursday.