Like all good things, the Best of Las Vegas readers’ poll must come to an end, and the beginning of the end starts today (we’ve always wanted to say that).
SAN DIEGO — Jimmer Fredette scored 33 points and helped key a 15-0 run midway through the second half that carried No. 14 Brigham Young to a 71-69 win over San Diego State on Saturday night, the Cougars’ 15th straight victory.
Las Vegas Review-Journal sports columnist Ed Graney has been chosen Nevada Sportswriter of the Year for 2009 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
It was announced last week the Cincinnati Reds will play the Los Angeles Dodgers in an exhibition game March 31 at Cashman Field.
I searched for a reason to feel bad about it, mad about it, somehow as an NBA fan (from mid-April on, of course) cheated by it, and couldn’t discover one.
Faith Lutheran girls basketball coach Jennifer Karner outlined a goal for her players Saturday: hold Boulder City to single-digit scoring in every quarter.
After being away for six years, Kevin Barry didn’t want to get back into training world-class boxers full time.
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UNLV knocked Texas Christian out of last season’s Mountain West Conference Tournament, and the Lady Rebels appeared poised Saturday to score another big upset over the same team.
FORT WORTH, Texas — It took some time for Tre’Von Willis to show it, but what he’s doing now is what he always expected. Never has the UNLV junior guard played better basketball.
When the betting lines were posted for last year’s NFL divisional playoffs, my opinions were quickly formed. But both of today’s conference championships require plenty of painstaking thought.
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted last week against an attempt to close the books on the $700 billion financial bailout fund. The vote on the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, came during debate on a bill to allow the government to borrow another $1.9 trillion to meet its obligations.
This is not an attempt to get all political on your asphalt, but are you having trouble figuring out who to believe when it comes to Nevada’s effectiveness in cashing its $201 million stimulus check for transportation projects?
Any lingering questions about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health surely were answered this past week.
Mother Nature sort of rained on CityCenter’s parade last week. Barely a month old, the pristine $8.5 billion project sprang some leaks during a week of record rainfall that surpassed last year’s total of 1.59 inches.
Some prostitutes bear a mark that makes it tough to find other work in any type of economy. It’s hard to explain away a 30-year gap in your resume, harder still to explain an arrest record. A soaring unemployment rate — above 13 percent now in Nevada — makes it difficult for anyone to find a job. For someone like Nicole, it was nearly impossible.
Danielle Nettleton has four plastic bins.
It’s almost midnight. The strip mall across the street, dead. The streets, slick with rain. The traffic lights, green. The guy working the counter at the gas station, grumpy.
RENO — Animal advocates are calling for an independent investigation after the deaths of nine wild horses so far in a government roundup on the range north of Reno.
Republican Sue Lowden knows she must go to rural areas to meet voters on their own turf if she wants to win their support in her campaign to be the next U.S. senator from Nevada. … To take on Harry Reid, the Democratic leader of the Senate, Lowden must first get past nearly a dozen GOP candidates in the June primary election.
RANDOM QUOTES OVERHEARD AT MONDAY’S MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY PARADE, held under dark skies and sporadic sprinkles in downtown Las Vegas:
Between watching and reading about the political atmosphere in this country I cannot help but laugh.
Unionized Clark County employees packed Tuesday’s commission meeting to show solidarity against an advisory report that calls for cuts to their ever-growing wages. … Commissioner Tom Collins … played to his audience, clad in yellow T-shirts, in declaring pay cuts off the table. “If they’re not worth what you’re paying them, then you should fire them,” Mr. Collins said. …
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2 on 215 Beltway in northwest Las Vegas
Las Vegas teen killed in minibike crash had 10 times legal limit for pot, report says
Mom killed in fatal crash near 215 Beltway identified
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school