Colts still AFC’s best despite failing to cover

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.

Texas Christian in rare BCS air

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.

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Lostroh snags title

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.

‘I had demons,’ Agassi says

When Andre Agassi decided to tell his life story — all of it — he knew he would reopen old wounds in his soul.

Buchanan called ‘larger than life’

A week before he died, attorney James “Bucky” Buchanan dressed up for Halloween as an 18th century colonial lord of the manor.

CORRECTIONS

Congresswoman Candice Miller, R-Mich., was misidentified in an Associated Press story on the House passing health care legislation in Sunday’s Review-Journal.

IN BRIEF

INFORMATION SOUGHT

Gibbons looks past polls

CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons finds himself in the same position that faced President Lyndon Johnson early in 1968, according to political analysts.

UNLV says outreach unit fixed

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.

Logger, college dropout to fight for World Series of Poker title

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.

Hardesty seeks re-election in ’10

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.

Gotta have faith

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?

Cada wins World Series of Poker championship

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.

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WSOP Blog: Cada back in front

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.

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WSOP Blog: Will Saints magic help Moon?

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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