RENO — Missouri will try to finish its nonconference schedule 4-0 tonight against a winless UNR team that has been plagued by turnovers in lopsided losses at Notre Dame and Colorado State.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of the state’s indoor smoking ban, but rejected criminal enforcement of the voter-approved measure.
Victor Belen rushed for three touchdowns as Bishop Gorman overcame a series of special teams miscues to defeat visiting Desert Oasis 42-11 on Thursday night.
UNLV’s Mike Sanford understands better than most coaches the difficulty of what Wyoming’s Dave Christensen is trying to accomplish by radically changing the Cowboys’ offense in his first season. … Upon Sanford’s arrival for the 2005 season, he threw out the Rebels’ traditional two-back set in favor of the spread offense. The transition was messy; in Sanford’s first season UNLV averaged 18.8 points per game and went 2-9. … Similarly, Christensen has abandoned a power running game to implement the spread at Wyoming, which will host the Rebels at noon Saturday.
Because he’s a gambler, Southern California football coach Pete Carroll has many admirers. Obviously, a lot of gamblers are losers. But Carroll gets enthusiastic about taking risks, and he usually wins.
Before baldness became fashionable and a cheap way to keep pates neatly manicured, those of us who were already follicularly challenged didn’t appreciate taunts of “baldy,” “chrome dome” or “onion head.”
It seems too early for a break in the NFL schedule, but bye weeks begin next week and run all the way through Week 10. It might be a good idea to get an early run on the top players available before the pickings get slim due to the frenzy of transactions that will occur.
Eight days after stunning perennial power and Sunrise Region nemesis Las Vegas 33-28, Del Sol (3-0) hosts Foothill (2-1) tonight in the Southeast League opener for both teams. UPDATE: Del Sol beat Foothill, 21-14, after leading at halftime 7-6.
Traffic jams are commonplace at major sporting events here, and the pattern won’t be broken Saturday before and after the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The retirement of Lava Man lasted about as long as the 21-month hiatus of champion boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mayweather returned last week to pound the smaller Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden. Who knows if Lava Man can do the same again to the handicap division?
A 36-year-old motorcyclist died early Thursday in an accident on Rainbow Boulevard near Russell Road, Las Vegas police said.
Two informants in the federal government’s case against members of a white supremacist prison gang also assisted in the undercover investigation of a Nevada corrections officer accused of aiding the gang, court records show.
The whistle-blower is not a hero but a villain, according to a plumbing business owner who is on trial for jeopardizing the fire protection of a large condominium building near the Strip.
Thursday an elderly husband and wife were found shot in their home in what police are calling a murder and attempted suicide. It’s the fifth such incident in the Las Vegas Valley in the past 19 days. … Police said 86-year-old Joseph Woods was arrested in absentia. He is accused of killing his 80-year-old wife by shooting her in the back. Joseph Woods had a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his torso and was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, police said. … He was listed in critical condition.
Homicide Lt. Lew Roberts said the motive appeared to be that the couple was “elderly and sick.”
Las Vegas police have arrested a man accused of committing violent sexual assaults against women, one of whom was an admitted prostitute.
CARSON CITY — The life imprisonment sentences a former Henderson elementary schoolteacher received for lewdness with three fifth-grade girls will stand.
For nearly 20 years, Nevada was the fastest-growing state in the nation.
CARSON CITY — Legislators asked Gibbons administration officials many questions Thursday about how they are spending federal stimulus funds but generally didn’t get the answers they wanted.
The Nye County sheriff’s office Thursday announced the arrests of 16 Pahrump residents accused of being involved in an elaborate forgery scheme. More than a dozen other people, including three Las Vegas men, were being sought for questioning.
Las Vegas’ own Jay Cutler looks to regain the title of Mr. Olympia today and Saturday at the Orleans. If he’s victorious, he’ll be the first man to win (2006 and 2007), lose (last year), then win.
RENO — Health officials have confirmed Washoe County’s first swine flu-related death.
A federal judge in Los Angeles believes MGM Mirage majority shareholder Kirk Kerkorian knew a now-convicted Hollywood private eye was illegally wiretapping his ex-wife during their child custody dispute.