Even when Peyton Manning falls short of perfection, the Indianapolis Colts still win. Sometimes they win with ease and occasionally, as we’ve seen the past two weeks, they do it ugly.
All those blowouts have carried Texas Christian to unprecedented heights in the Bowl Championship Series standings, giving the Horned Frogs hope — however slim — of becoming the first BCS buster to break into the national title game.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Jimmie Johnson’s drive to history took a hard hit against a wall, and Kyle Busch ran out of gas trying to complete an unprecedented NASCAR trifecta.
As Kody Lostroh prepared to ride Voodoo Child — a bull only one other rider had ever successfully stayed on — he didn’t know he had already clinched the Professional Bull Riders world championship.
A 35-year-old motorcyclist died Sunday after he was thrown from his 2006 Suzuki in a northwest valley crash involving three vehicles, Las Vegas police said.
When Andre Agassi decided to tell his life story — all of it — he knew he would reopen old wounds in his soul.
A week before he died, attorney James “Bucky” Buchanan dressed up for Halloween as an 18th century colonial lord of the manor.
Congresswoman Candice Miller, R-Mich., was misidentified in an Associated Press story on the House passing health care legislation in Sunday’s Review-Journal.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons finds himself in the same position that faced President Lyndon Johnson early in 1968, according to political analysts.
Three years after a damning internal audit of its educational outreach department, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has no written record of what steps were taken to correct serious flaws the audit exposed.
Las Vegas has its share of characters. But Bucky Buchanan stood apart.
A 21-year-old college drop-out from Michigan’s upper peninsula and a 46-year-old logger from Maryland’s rural panhandle make up an unlikely duo that will play heads-up no-limit hold’em poker tonight at the Rio to determine the champion of the World Series of Poker.
Some judicial branch news was overshadowed last week by the health care debate in Washington and campaigning in the U.S. Senate race in Nevada.
Every conversation Tracy Rogers had with her son, Vance Lee Rogers, ended with them saying “I love you” to each other.
World War II glider pilots were a special breed then, and they’re a special breed now, as their ranks dwindle.
The Democrats’ 2009 version of Hillarycare now approaches 2,000 pages. Why did the collectivists want it enacted so quickly, before anyone really had time to climb in there with a flashlight and look around?
Michigan’s Joseph Cada dropped out of community college after three semesters to make a go at becoming a professional poker player.
Early Tuesday morning at the Rio, the 21-year-old became the game’s biggest name and, in the process, won more than $8.5 million.
We may be here a while at the World Series of Poker. Chip leader Joseph Cada’s chip lead shrunk after just a few hands.
On the very first hand of heads-up no-limit hold’em poker at the Rio, Maryland logger Darvin Moon took a sizeable chunk of Cada’s chip stack. After several back and forth sizeable wagers with board showing a pair of kings, Cada’s pocket nines couldn’t hold up to Moon’s pocket queens.
Seeking a sign as to the probable outcome of tonight’s World Series of Poker heads-up match between Darvin Moon and Joseph Cada?
Look no further than the New Orleans Saints’ “fleur de lys” logo on Moon’s cap.
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