Dont Miss It

PETER FRAMPTON

Don’t Miss It

PETER FRAMPTON

Smart GMs constantly question, analyze

After the first week of seeing your fantasy football team in action, and being the fair and balanced general manager you are, ask yourself some questions about the performance of your entire roster.

Trigg returns to UFC in search of elusive title

Frank Trigg has been as close to winning an Ultimate Fighting Championship title as one can get without actually having the belt secured around his waist.

Champs get act together

The hook-and-ladder play Calvary Chapel pulled off for a touchdown in the final minute of the first half Thursday night was more than a major swing of momentum.

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

IN BRIEF

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Edwards sparks Longhorns

Legacy star running back Deshae Edwards was held to one yard on his first five carries in Thursday night’s home game against Arbor View.

Newcomer fits in with No. 1 Panthers

But Palo Verde junior Brandon Wright certainly made his presence felt Thursday night. The Centennial transfer scored three touchdowns to lead the top-ranked Panthers to a 20-7 home victory over No. 3 Cimarron-Memorial.

Hall, BYU on mission to crash BCS party

Who is Bronco Mendenhall? Pose that question on a game show and watch the average contestant scramble to phone a friend or poll the audience for help with the answer.

Wise leadership needed to restore Santa Anita

At some point in the near future, Santa Anita Park will have a new owner. Let’s pray that it isn’t old owner Frank Stronach. When Stronach formed Magna Entertainment and began buying up racetracks, and started XpressBet and HRTV, he looked like a winner.

Alexander takes aim at Rebels

It’s not as if UNLV’s secondary took the past two weekends off, but it didn’t face anything like Hawaii’s run-and-shoot, throw-almost-every-down offense.

Tipton, Skyhawks leg out win

Silverado High quarterback Trenten Tipton rarely puts the ball in the air, but that doesn’t mean he can’t hurt his opponents.

Maglev train plan takes a puzzling turn

The magnetic levitation train proposal appeared to glide ahead of its rival DesertXpress when the governor announced Wednesday that the Federal Railroad Administration released $45 million to Nevada transportation officials to begin the project.

Enrollment might be down

For the first time since President Ronald Reagan, big hair rock bands and Sally Ride in space, enrollment could drop in the Clark County schools.

IN BRIEF

BOARD OF REGENTS

Knapp decides to stay home: KLAS

After a spirited bidding war, investigative reporter George Knapp is staying at KLAS-TV, Channel 8.

LV police investigate dead man by road

A man’s body was found off the side of the road in the far east valley Thursday afternoon, the victim of an apparent homicide.

Proposed rules clarify what medical assistants can, can’t do

Medical assistants will be able to administer vaccinations and other critical prescription shots legally but will be prevented from injecting patients with Botox and other cosmetic drugs, according to a copy of emergency regulations obtained Thursday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Six accused in effort to defraud investors

Six people, including an attorney who once practiced in Las Vegas, are accused of defrauding investors out of more than $60 million by conspiring to issue and sell unregistered shares of stock in a company called CMKM Diamonds.

Furniture event signals economy no longer a couch potato

If you’re hungry for a positive economic indicator, look no further than the crowd that converged on the World Market Center for this week’s Fall 2009 Las Vegas Market.

Charges for water going up

Growth has stopped, but expensive water projects have not, so the Southern Nevada Water Authority will raise rates over the next two years to help bolster its construction activities.

Resignation follows breach of policy

A forensic scientist with Las Vegas police resigned Thursday after an internal investigation found that he had allowed a convicted felon inside the department’s crime lab, an act described as “a major policy violation.”

Husband sentenced for slaying

A 35-year-old man convicted of fatally shooting his wife in August 2008 was sentenced Thursday to life in prison.

Phantom Fans Show Off

Larry Tetewsky, 50, and his wife, Janice Mergenhagen, 62, made it to Phantom Fan Week in Las Vegas despite a cruel scheduling dilemma. This is also the weekend a pirate convention takes place aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif.

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