UNLV coach Mike Sanford was right, there is no such thing as a preseason game in college football.
As the NFL regular season approaches, let’s look at some big-picture opinions from the oddsmakers at Las Vegas Sports Consultants. It’s probably not surprising to see the focus on the New England Patriots.
The death of Ted Kennedy has left Massachusetts with a vacant Senate seat, and a prominent New England personality has expressed interest in it.
HAMPTON, Ga. — Tony Stewart can take it easy the next couple of weekends. Same for Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon.
I am not sure when Sacramento State coaches decided it was best not to throw much against UNLV on Saturday night. It might have been when Hornets quarterback Jason Smith’s second attempt was a one-hopper on an 8-yard out that James Loney would have struggled to field.
Justyn Anderson’s 12-yard touchdown run with a minute to play Saturday lifted Mountain View High School to a 32-28 win over Army/Navy Academy (Calif.) in Carlsbad, Calif.
Brett Dowdy broke a 3-3 tie in the eighth inning with a two-run homer off 51s reliever Davis Romero, and the Portland Beavers held on for a 5-4 victory over Las Vegas in the Pacific Coast League on Saturday at Portland, Ore.
HAMPTON, Ga. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. won a late gamble on gas, but that wasn’t enough to overcome Kevin Harvick’s dominance.
Tony Stewart expects one day to be trading paint with Danica Patrick.
He was part of the biggest pay-per-view buy in boxing history, but Floyd Mayweather Jr. still must prove he is a PPV star.
Channing Trotter knew this was his opportunity to show he was worthy of being UNLV’s starting tailback — and he took full advantage of it.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Jimmy Clausen must have felt as if he was still in paradise.
Four people remained hospitalized Saturday after a powerful thunderstorm roared through the northwestern Arizona community of Fort Mohave late Friday, flipping several recreational vehicles.
Firefighters responding to a blaze at a West Las Vegas home came under fire from an assailant who was later killed in a gunbattle with police.
The Internet is so full of pranksters that at first I thought it was a news spoof. You know, the kind you see at the checkout counter on the cover of the Weekly World News.
Danny Gans’ upcoming book has a chapter titled “The Glory and the Pain.” In it are details of Gans’ “incredible struggles to overcome pain,” according to the former minister who collaborated with Gans on the book, “The Voices in My Head.”
Demand for ammunition is outstripping supply in Nevada and across the country. The scarcity is part of a trend that began immediately after the presidential election, retailers say. Gun enthusiasts, concerned with perceptions that President Barack Obama and a Democrat-controlled Congress would increase gun control measures, began buying firearms and ammunition at an astounding rate. Because sales rose so quickly, manufacturers struggled to meet the new demands, said Ted Novin, director of public affairs for the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
RENO — Police are scouring records of unsolved cases in Northern Nevada to determine if any match the profile of the man charged in the abduction and assault of a California girl 18 years ago.
AT A RECENT MEETING, COUNTY COMMISSIONER STEVE SISOLAK grilled sewer officials about how they went about buying a machine that cleans sewer lines.
CARSON CITY — Parole officers in Nevada these days are taking more time to check out the backyards of the sex offenders they supervise.
RENO — A federal panel has rejected a request for a stay of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s plans to remove all wild horses from a large swath of eastern Nevada.
Like many Las Vegas commuters, I fly frequently and dream of the day when public transportation provides a simple, convenient and timely ride to McCarran International Airport.
A man shot and killed a woman in North Las Vegas before turning the gun on himself Saturday evening, police said.