Las Vegas Locomotives wide receiver and former UNLV Rebel Casey Flair was misidentified in Saturday’s Sports section.
• LAKE MEAD — The trout bite has been good immediately following the Nevada Department of Wildlife weekly trout plants. Anglers have been catching trout off the docks at Hemenway and Boulder Harbor with PowerBait and catching a few stripers with shad.
It’s always interesting to see people acknowledged for their hard work, especially when those efforts reach above and beyond the norm. I enjoy learning about these extraordinary people and discovering what it is that drives them to do whatever it is they do. And when the person being recognized is someone you know, that learning process takes on a whole new meaning.
As UNLV searches for a football coach and athletic director, more is on the line than simply the immediate future.
Lewis Feild left the 1985 National Finals Rodeo with his first two world championships, in the first year the world’s richest rodeo was held in Las Vegas.
The 2009 National Finals Rodeo marks the 25th year that the event has been held in Las Vegas and at the Thomas & Mack Center. The 10-day rodeo remains the biggest in the world, with the best rodeo athletes, but much of the landscape has changed around the event. Following are facts and figures comparing the 1985 NFR with the 2009 NFR:
Trevor Brazile started the National Finals Rodeo a year ago with an overwhelming lead in the all-around race and won his sixth championship as the world’s best cowboy.
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension is accepting applications for its spring master gardener series of classes that begin in February. Registration will take place Tuesday from 6-7 p.m. at the UNCE Lifelong Learning Center, 8050 Paradise Road. The spring semester will run Feb. 2 through April 29, with classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-9 p.m. Persons interested in attending the registration session should contact Ann Edmunds, program coordinator, at edmundsa@unce.unr.edu or 257-5587.
I was pleased by a recent report detailing the substantial rise in property values in certain neighborhoods that are now the most desirable in the Las Vegas Valley. It was not completely unexpected. Ever since the light rail system was completed back in 2015, the value of nearby homes and businesses really took off. Ridership is more than double the projections. Everyone now wonders why Las Vegans took so long to build one in the first place.
Mornings are often a quiet time in the design industry with clients and designers usually meeting up for lunch followed by a round of browsing through various trend-setting showrooms.
Being we live in the Las Vegas Valley and it is in the middle of the desert, odds are these mild temperatures won’t last for too much longer and our winter nights will be cold, if not frigid.
Isaac Ramirez’s best work probably went unnoticed by casual fans. But the Northwest League boys soccer coaches were paying attention.
TUCSON, Ariz. — In a dramatic game that seemed it might never end, Tre’Von Willis took charge as UNLV’s leader and made one big play after another.
It didn’t take long for someone to try to cash in on Tiger Woods‘ car incident.
Trevor Brazile will feel right at home tonight when he rides into the Thomas & Mack Center for the opening of the National Finals Rodeo — and not just because the 33-year-old Texan has competed in the event every year since 1998.
While Bob Arum talks to Manny Pacquiao in the Philippines about accepting a deal to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr., the stage is being set for another battle, one to make sure the fight is in Las Vegas, be it March 13 or May 1.
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