Resting stars could backfire for Indianapolis

Maybe pulling Peyton Manning in the third quarter was the right thing to do for the Indianapolis Colts. It can be argued that maybe it was the correct move.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT SANTA ANITA PARK

‘Sick’ alumni once forced coach to quit

Urban Meyer will be taking a leave as Florida football coach, some 34 years after Jim Sweeney resigned at Washington State.

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BASKETBALL

NHL begins taking head hits seriously

NEW YORK — Keith Primeau is linked to the late Reggie Fleming though their NHL careers were separated by decades.

Arum makes final push to salvage bout

Promoter Bob Arum delivered what he said would be his last proposal Sunday to salvage the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr., which has been on life support over a blood-testing dispute.

Memo reinterprets health reform polls

Strategist Mark Mellman last week wrote a four-page memo to Democratic senators urging them to embrace the controversial health care bill that squeaked through the Senate.

GOP troubles jeopardize candidates

The Clark County Republican Party is struggling to raise money, coping with a police investigation into stolen documents and reeling from the loss of at least eight officers who resigned en masse during a meeting earlier this month.

Ex-school official dies at 93

Helen Cannon, a pioneering, 20-year veteran of the Clark County School Board whose efforts had a lasting effect on education in Southern Nevada, died Christmas Day in a Utah rehabilitation center. She was 93.

Lowden told of trouble at Clark County GOP

Nevada state-level Republican Party officials knew about allegations of financial mismanagement in the Clark County Republican Party as long ago as 2007 but didn’t step in to correct problems, despite pleas to help.

Brothel owner plans to hire men to service women

In as little as three weeks, the Shady Lady Ranch brothel plans to launch a live-action sociology experiment that could open a whole new market for the state’s legal bordellos or destroy the industry altogether. … So go the predictions for what might be the biggest change to hit the brothel business since the credit-card reader: male prostitutes. … By as early as mid-January, Shady Lady owner Bobbi Davis plans to hire two men to start servicing women at her cathouse 150 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Source: Tiger built brawn over years

A former local high school athlete wants to offer some perspective on the subject of trainer Keith Kleven‘s work with Tiger Woods.

Talk about Tiger burns brightly

Tiger Woods is the end of 9/11. For weeks now, all anyone wants to talk about is Tiger. I go to dinner with friends: Tiger talk. I go to the Vegas Strip and all I hear from strangers: Tiger. I go to New Orleans for the holidays: Tiger.

IN BRIEF

FATAL CRASH

Jury queries

After somehow being acquitted in the killing of his wife and another man during the trial of the decade in the 1990s, former football great O.J. Simpson lived a relatively quiet life.