MACAU — Pete Sampras edged Andre Agassi in three sets Sunday as the two retired American tennis greats revisited one of the sport’s greatest rivalries.
Boise State got bumped, and Texas Christian is in position to be this season’s BCS buster — for now.
A screen pass from Brett Favre turned ugly, the Pittsburgh Steelers got a fluke point-spread cover and more favorites continued to win in blowouts. The formula surely had more than a few sports book directors dropping F-bombs.
In between hosting his own reality show and entertaining his 2.4 million followers on Twitter, Shaquille O’Neal apparently had little spare time during the offseason to learn the playbook of his new team, the Cleveland Cavaliers.
It might seem Steve Jones has Red Bull running through his veins. But the UNLV senior said the ”energy and enthusiasm” he brings to basketball practice every day is all natural. … ”What you see is what you get. I like life,” he said. ”People always say, ‘You have little kid energy.’ I guess I do.” … Jones, a walk-on point guard who transferred from Arizona State before last season, joins forward Darris Santee as the only seniors on the Rebels’ roster. While Santee is the quiet type, Jones is all about getting his teammates hyped.
The desperate flowed into a new office in the homeless corridor, one after another seeking food, shelter, a job or a bus ticket home.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, in Las Vegas last week to attend the National Conference of Black Mayors, says it is time for another stimulus package.
ELY — Construction of White Pine County’s first commercial wind turbine farm could begin as early as next summer and bring up to 200 workers to the rural area, project officials said.
Last week, Daniel Bogden attended an orientation in Washington, D.C., for newly appointed U.S. attorneys. Yet he isn’t new to the job.
CARSON CITY — Happy days apparently are here again for participants in Nevada’s Public Employees Retirement System as its investments have soared in value by $6 billion since March.
Political consultants and close friends Billy Vassiliadis and Pete Ernaut knew it was inevitable. The time has come.
As part of the huge $878 trillion (Or was it $787 billion? Can anyone remember, anymore?) “economic stimulus” created in Washington last winter, Congress OK’d a tax credit of between $4,200 and $5,500 for Americans who purchase an electric vehicle.