BATON ROUGE, La. — Carlon Brown hit a game-winning 3-pointer with 1:11 remaining, as Utah rallied from a 12-point second-half deficit to win 61-59 against Louisiana State on Saturday.
Apparently, there was no post-New Year’s hangover for the Wranglers.
It started out as a good idea, and promoter Roy Englebrecht still thinks it’s a good idea — a combined boxing and mixed arts tournament for up-and-coming fighters with a chance for a good payday if they reach the finals.
This is the week of the NFL season that turns oddsmakers and bettors alike into daredevils. Everyone is taking the leap of faith and developing an opinion on what might transpire in today’s games.
They weren’t great odds for a fair fight. It was always 2-on-1. It was always two brothers ganging up on another. The matchup wasn’t always the same, though. It sort of depended on the day.
The game plan designed for Rashad Evans was executed flawlessly for two rounds.
A brief lapse in the third, however, nearly cost him the fight in the main event of UFC 108 at the MGM Grand on Saturday night.
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The first line of U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian’s campaign biography reminds readers of his starring role as point guard for UNLV’s basketball team.
Gov. Jim Gibbons had compared living with Dawn Gibbons to “being locked in a phone booth with an enraged ferret,” but it all came to a close on Monday when the couple’s divorce was finalized.
Two months away from her 78th birthday, Elizabeth Taylor is still one classy dame.
A veterans’ activist running for public office was arrested early New Year’s Day on two firearms related charges, police records show.
It’s 2010. Brace yourself. I have some good news and bad news.
Welcome to the New Year, when resolutions flow as freely as champagne.
WHEN A SWEETS SHOP AT THE PALAZZO HOTEL let the media in to watch the creation of a $750 cupcake, it might have been a good idea to cover up the label on some of the ingredients.
Bantamweight fighter Z Gorres won his fight at Mandalay Bay’s House of Blues in November. But he paid a steep price for it. He collapsed right after the fight and needed emergency brain surgery at University Medical Center. Gorres’ medical bills total $500,000 to date, but fight promoters are required to put up only $50,000 for medical insurance.
Ah, the nanny state. Is there anything left from which our legislative masters will not endeavor to protect us?
This startling exchange between a reporter and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano illustrates the profound wrong-headedness of the Obama administration in prosecuting the war on terror.
I wish I could offer some cheery prognostications for 2010.
Editor’s note: Today John L. Smith begins a new feature column devoted to people, places and events from around the state and the region.
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