RENO — UNR put up 61 points in the first half, then held off Houston for a 112-99 victory Saturday.
It wasn’t the ideal way to train for a championship fight, but Amir Khan isn’t second-guessing himself.
RENO — As Moapa Valley and Truckee (Calif.) headed to the locker room at halftime of Saturday’s Class 3A football state title game, it was difficult not to think of 1995.
LARAMIE, Wyo. — Andy Dalton made a bet over the summer with his Texas Christian teammates that he was hoping to lose. Win 10 straight and the junior quarterback vowed to shave his flame-red hair.
RENO — As The Meadows quarterback Garrett Gosse brought his team to the line of scrimmage at the Battle Mountain 31-yard line with about seven minutes to play in Saturday’s Class 2A state championship game, things had just gone from bad to worse for the Mustangs.
LINCOLN, Neb. — Ryan Anderson scored seven consecutive points to lead a late surge that sealed Nebraska’s 90-77 victory over Texas Christian on Saturday.
Every year when discussing the NFL, we assign an unofficial title to a group of teams perceived to be residing in the league’s best division. That banner might be blank this year.
Another sluggish start turned into another halftime deficit, but this time it was junior guard Tre’Von Willis who led UNLV to the finish line.
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Kyle Busch only needed the green flag to drop to win his first NASCAR title. His coronation was never in doubt and neither, really, was the outcome of the Nationwide Series finale.
It took a last-minute miracle, but Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts kept their winning streak alive last week. In fact, the Colts are working on several streaks.
There will be an Uga VIII. Just who he is and when he arrives are the questions.
RENO — As the players gathered in front of the goal post for a team photo following the presentation of the championship trophy Saturday at Damonte Ranch High School, Pahranagat Valley’s football team didn’t even need to wait for the photographer to tell them how to line up.
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — UNR rushed for 575 yards — and shattered some NCAA records in the process — as the Wolf Pack beat New Mexico State 63-20 Saturday night.
Forrest Griffin entered his UFC 106 main-event fight Saturday night to the cheesy pop tune “Tubthumping” by Chumbawumba.
Nearly 6,400 employees were on duty Nov. 22, 1989, when The Mirage opened.
Dr. Paul Stumpf, the graying 61-year-old chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, admits some of his colleagues wonder where his head is at these days.
When his lawyer called Robert Kahre a hero, the odor of something organic and overripe wafted into U.S. District Court.
Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie on Saturday had trouble finding the words for his latest fallen comrade, a corrections officer who died hours earlier in a collision on U.S. Highway 95 near Searchlight.
RENO — A winter storm with winds gusting to more than 80 mph Friday knocked out power for thousands of people in Northern Nevada, grounded flights and kicked up dust storms that contributed to a fatal pileup that shut down a stretch of U.S. Interstate 80.
Siegfried and Roy are synonymous with The Mirage.
LAS VEGAS CITY COUNCILWOMAN LOIS TARKANIAN apparently has stepped on the path to enlightenment.
Twenty years ago, The Mirage was the CityCenter of its time.
FALLON — Nine Nevada counties are pressing Congress to repeal a provision in a federal appropriations bill that could cost counties in at least six Western states millions of dollars in lost revenues from geothermal activity.
WASHINGTON — The House voted last week to avert a steep cut early next year in government payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients.