The NASCAR All-American Series closes its season Saturday night at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring when 2009 champions will be determined in six divisions.
Apparently, a lot of you looked at my picks last week. (Hey, it’s always good to be looked at.)
Over the next two weekends, most of the Breeders’ Cup horses will prep in stakes races at Belmont Park, Keeneland, Santa Anita Park and beyond. I thought it might be revealing to see where the 14 Breeders’ Cup race winners of 2008 prepped, especially since Santa Anita, where the main track is Pro Ride synthetic surface, is the host site again.
As the seasons change and it gets cold on the East Coast, this is when the heat is intensely on Alex Rodriguez. He spends summers knocking the snot out of pitchers but in October falls flat on his face.
First-year Canyon Springs football coach Hunkie Cooper doesn’t couch his aspirations to build the Pioneers into a perennial power on the field.
Though linebacker Starr Fuimaono and quarterback Colin Kaepernick were on the same recruiting trip to UNR in 2006, their situations were vastly different.
Four-and-a-half feet. That was all that separated Legacy from victory Thursday night.
It’s hard to find NASCAR fans who admit they love Jimmie Johnson. You never see his name atop lists of the most popular drivers.
Maybe the fledgling United Football League should have put a franchise in Salt Lake City. Or at least let the Las Vegas Locomotives play a game at the University of Utah.
Down a service break in the first set and on the verge of being broken a second time, Las Vegan Asia Muhammad rallied to hold serve and went on to defeat Lauren Albanese 7-6 (4), 6-0 Thursday in the Lexus of Las Vegas Open at Red Rock Country Club.
After dealing with a multitude of changes since last season — most notably, the departure of former ECHL Coach of the Year Glen Gulutzan — the Wranglers open their seventh training camp today at the Fiesta Rancho’s SoBe Ice Arena with an almost entirely new roster.
Three weeks into the NFL season, there’s a small sampling of team data that can help make fantasy owners’ decisions for the bye weeks easier. Decisions must be made on whom to start from unused players deep on the roster and even for those regular starters who are underperforming.
A Las Vegas man who shot his estranged wife in the head while she held their 18-month-old daughter outside the Gold Spike casino in November 2008 was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday.
Clark County’s department heads snipped here and there, coming up with $22.5 million in proposed savings.
The “Dancing with the Stars” judges told UFC hero Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell to get in touch with his feminine side. They weren’t kidding.
Timothy Chester asked his only friend, Victor Veliz: Will you kill my parents?
RENO — U.S. Census Bureau figures show Nevada spent big on police protection and small on social services during this decade’s economic boom years.
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Ensign’s former mistress and her husband sought an $8.5 million settlement from the Nevada Republican before the affair became public, The New York Times reported Thursday.
A janitor at the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse appeared before a judge there Thursday, a day after he was arrested at work on a charge of abusive sexual contact.
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., is pressing President Barack Obama to speed up the repeal of the controversial, “don’t ask, don’t tell,” policy for gays in the military.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Medical Association says a proposed agreement to divide water from the Snake Valley aquifer with Nevada could expose the public to carcinogens, radiation and valley fever.
For Angela Turner and Danielle Hill, a single day can make all the difference in the world. … “Yesterday, our son meant nothing to me on paper,” Turner said, gesturing toward the couple’s one-month-old baby, Maxwell. “Today, it’s different. That’s a big deal.” … Las Vegans Turner and Hill, who conceived their son through artificial insemination, were among the first couples to receive certificates recognizing them as legal domestic partners under a new Nevada law which took effect Thursday.
The biggest freebie in town is the world’s biggest tattoo convention at Mandalay Bay this weekend. Well, it’s free for locals. Out-of-towners pay $45.
An inmate with a history of mental illness exploded in rage while being sentenced Thursday in District Court.
An Associated Press story about an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit against Vegas Western Cab Co. that appeared in Tuesday’s Review-Journal erroneously referred to another taxi company with a similar name. Western Cab Co. of Las Vegas is not a party to the EEOC lawsuit.