With defenders in hot pursuit of Ben Roethlisberger and a coroner standing by on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ sideline, the big quarterback rifled a pass to the end zone.
Montana football coach Bobby Hauck came to Las Vegas on Sunday to interview for the UNLV job, fresh off his third Football Championship Subdivision national title appearance in six seasons.
Tailback Jacquizz Rodgers was stopped at the 1-yard line against UCLA at Pasadena last season, and when he scored on the next play, that wasn’t good enough for his older brother.
Under the best of circumstances, Oregon State would have its hands full trying to defend Brigham Young quarterback Max Hall.
The UNLV women’s basketball team coasted into the final of the Duel in the Desert, beating Hawaii 67-54 Sunday night at Cox Pavilion.
Dave Rice was mowing the lawn out back when the phone rang, because when you are a college basketball coach with hundreds of young players set to arrive for a summer camp the following week, you do the yard work whenever a minute allows.
Boarding a Sunday flight to Hawaii, UNLV coach Lon Kruger was not taking a lot of baggage with him, in the figurative sense at least.
Citadel Broadcasting Corp., the nation’s third-largest radio broadcasting company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sunday in an effort to restructure its hefty debt load as it continues to face declining advertising revenue.
“Just keep moving,” Thalia Dondero said firmly.
WASHINGTON — Landmark health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama passed its sternest Senate test early today, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a 60-40 vote that all but assures its passage by Christmas.
Here’s your unlikeliest feel-good story for Christmas week: Las Vegas’ newest rising celebrities are four local guys who have been quietly running a family-owned pawnshop downtown for years.
RENO — It may be difficult to find 10 lords a-leaping or 11 pipers piping, but it’s easy to locate at least seven swans a-swimming in Nevada.
A week that started with some doubting whether Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., would round up 60 Senate votes for a health care overhaul bill ended with Reid doing just that.
Clark County School Board meetings usually start with good news and student performances, but some are frustrated that such activities delay action on business items. … “It’s nothing but happy talk when there are real and pressing problems,” said Jay Greene, the chairman of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. … But the School Board wants to provide a platform for the good news happening in schools, a Clark County School District official said.
The assignment, at first, seemed beyond ridiculous. Moon rocks? Yeah, whatever, thought Martinique Wilkins. … She is working on her master’s degree in criminal justice through the University of Phoenix, the online college. She is 28, works as a security guard in Las Vegas and, like anybody, has seen weird things before. … But this? Find missing moon rocks for a class in the administration of criminal justice? What’s one got to do with the other?
CARSON CITY — Neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night have prevented a group of four to 12 senior citizens from turning out every Monday afternoon in front of the Legislative Building to protest America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
An unlikely source of energy has emerged to meet international demands that the United States do more to fight global warming: It’s cleaner than coal and cheaper than oil, and a 90-year supply is under our feet.
Has there ever been a more pitiful example of misguided nonsense, aggressive idiocy and functional stupidity than last week’s climate change conference in Copenhagen?
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