Last week’s racing schedule was as stuffed as you probably are today.
Welcome back to Fantasyland, Terrell Owens! It took only 11 weeks of the NFL season to finally see a typical stat line from T.O., one of the most respected fantasy receivers of the past decade.
If he lined up against the UNLV defense every week, Colin Kaepernick, UNR’s Ostrich-legged quarterback, would be high stepping his way to the Heisman Trophy. He’s not that lucky.
Football coaches are itinerant, moving from job to job, with few becoming attached to one city for the long term.
The Daily Racing Form last month ran a small news item about top trainer Doug O’Neill sending 11 horses to Philadelphia Park to race. Jockey Saul Arias was moving his tack there to ride first call for O’Neill.
Illinois played in Las Vegas as the nation’s No. 1 team on New Year’s Eve 2004. It was one step on a journey that ended in the NCAA championship game.
In between coach Jim Fassel’s intermittent profanity-laced tirades, there was whooping and hollering coming from the players on the field Wednesday morning at Sam Boyd Stadium.
After an aggressive dribble drive, UNLV guard Oscar Bellfield floated down the right side of the lane and banked in a shot that was the highlight of his freshman year.
After nine years of denials and setbacks in a government program to compensate former Nevada Test Site employees for work-related illnesses, the retired nuclear weapons workers and survivors got some good news this week.
If you’re looking for Tuesday’s winner of “Dancing With the Stars,” champ Donny Osmond and sister Marie (she placed third on “Dancing” in 2007) are indeed playing their usual Flamingo gigs tonight and Saturday night.
A steady stream of children, families and friends filed into Piero’s restaurant Thursday for free turkey dinners and all the trimmings for what has become a Thanksgiving Day tradition going back 21 years.
The safety of a controversial neck hold taught to police officers to subdue unruly suspects is backed by a growing body of scientific research, but so many fatalities have been blamed on its use that many law enforcement agencies have banned it.
The Bret Michaels concert listed in today’s Neon section was rescheduled after publication. It has been postponed until March 27. Tickets should be returned to the point of purchase for a refund and not held for the new date.
Thanksgiving is impossible to intellectually digest without conjuring a little turkey imagery.
A shooting at a CVS Pharmacy parking lot Thursday left a man dead in a rolled-over car near Tenaya Way and Craig Road.
For the moment, the future of Lake Mead is a coin toss.
By this time next year, the surface of the reservoir could rise by about 15 feet or drop to a level not seen since 1937, when the lake was being filled for the first time. The difference will be decided upstream, where Lake Powell soon might contain enough water to allow for surplus deliveries to Lake Mead next year.
Federal forecasters now rate the chances of that happening at 50-50.
They slosh across creeks and stalk through cornfields, hunting down enemy combatants on the outskirts of Afghan villages. Every day since arriving five months ago, Nevada Army National Guard soldiers on foot and on the road have been performing a task they’ve spent years training for: patrolling.
Maybe Andre Agassi‘s infamous mullet hairpiece wasn’t such a big secret after all.
A 24-year-old Las Vegas man died from severe burns he suffered after a kitchen fire set his apartment ablaze on Nov. 4.
The Desert Chorale has scheduled two holiday concerts featuring Handel’s “Messiah” and “A Christmas Celebration” with guest Alex Boye, a soloist with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Now that we’ve made it through the Thanksgiving feast, it’s time to give thanks for the cinematic feast upon us.
When you’re given the keys to the candy store, you tend to eat a lot of sweets. It’s a wonder, then, that Paul Stanley has any teeth left.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
If you walk into The Bank nightclub at Bellagio feeling like you’re in for one of the richest nights of your life, then Jodi Myers, the club’s original managing partner and current president of customer development for Light Group, has done her job.