After 38 NASCAR Sprint Cup races over 10 months, the top drivers in the series were rewarded last week with a Las Vegas party.
Caitlin Trost looked more suited for the Ultimate Fighting Championship than a basketball court Thursday night.
Diego Sanchez has been preparing for this opportunity his entire career.
This is it for most of us. It’s the first week of the fantasy football playoffs — do or die, loser leaves town, put-up-or- shut-up time.
Research on rodeo injuries finds that bareback riders pull up to 46 Gs — just short of the forces experienced when an Indy car crashes at 200 mph, and nearly twice the 26 Gs experienced by bull riders. Studies have led to improved head and neck protection for riders.
As a player and an assistant coach at Oregon State, about all Bronco Mendenhall knew was losing and playing in front of empty seats. The pressure was trying just to win any game.
Prominent UNLV supporters in Las Vegas are hoping for the best for the school’s next athletic director, but some are disappointed a candidate with school ties isn’t among the finalists.
In better times, the annual University of Arizona Symposium on Racing & Gaming would attract more than 1,000 industry leaders to Tucson. Mixing business with pleasure made it a must-attend convention. Lately, though, both industries are not doing as well as they did in the 1980s and ’90s.
If Jim Livengood becomes UNLV’s next athletic director, he’ll arrive with an impressive resume, including having served as the chairman of the NCAA men’s basketball committee in 2003.
With the bowl season upon us, we’re constantly reminded how a great game is reduced to an imperfect, nonsensical mess. Cincinnati is one of five undefeated teams, but only two — Alabama and Texas — are allowed to play for the hoax that is the BCS national championship.
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas freshman Elijah Johnson might not start another game this season. He might start all of them. Whether he becomes a regular starter for the No. 1 Jayhawks will depend more on the play of sophomore guard Tyshawn Taylor than his own.
Danica Patrick intends to make Las Vegas Motor Speedway the second stop of her 2010 rookie season in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.
Keith Schwer was remembered as a “pointy-head economist” by his colleagues at UNLV, as a loving father and husband by his family members and as a respected academician and proud resident of the Las Vegas community by many of the 300 people who attended his eulogy Thursday at Tam Alumni Center on the university campus.
From Krolicki’s case to Tiger’s jam, it’s a good day to watch your step on the Boulevard:
Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said Thursday she will drop the criminal case against Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, despite maintaining that he committed felonies and that her job is to make “elected officials be accountable to the public.”
One of Andrea Bocelli‘s coolest moments as a father came during a trip to Las Vegas. The classical singing sensation recalled the time he brought his two children for a concert a few years ago.
RENO — Washoe County is considering cutting more services and jobs as it faces a drop in property and sales taxes.
Miguel and Naomi and Danira, Milton and Ashley and Jaime and Brian, they all shot books. Books in the library and books in a bucket. Books as murals and books about scary things. Books are what helped them, and so that’s what they photographed.
WASHINGTON — Another work weekend is keeping Sen. Harry Reid off the campaign trail.
Nevada Supreme Court justices heard arguments Thursday in the case of a Las Vegas doctor who was convicted of murder in the overdose death of one of his patients in 2005.
Heather Graham and director Todd Phillips are in town, promoting the DVD launch of this year’s big Vegas movie, “The Hangover.”
The district attorney’s office will seek the death penalty against five defendants in four separate murder cases, Clark County District Attorney David Roger said Thursday.
“I want to kill myself,” Kristine Freshman said in the middle of an argument Sunday afternoon, husband Walter Freshman told police. “I want you to shoot me.”
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