Without Bryce Harper, College of Southern Nevada would still field its most talented baseball team ever this season. But with Harper, widely regarded as the top prospect in the country, the Coyotes are ranked No. 1 in the nation and Coyotes coach Tim Chambers can barely contain his enthusiasm entering today’s 7 p.m. season opener against Arizona Western at Morse Stadium in Henderson.
NASCAR chairman Brian France proudly proclaimed last week that he listened to fans clamoring for changes in the Sprint Cup series.
On the same day, NHRA president Tom Compton — listening, we can only guess, to the mysterious voices inside his head — announced that the first four-wide professional drag race would take place in March at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
If you see 301 hyperactive horseplayers at Red Rock today and Saturday, don’t be alarmed. The jitters are real, as the contestants pursue a $500,000 first prize in the 11th annual $982,000 Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship.
Kyle Busch returns to his comfort zone this weekend after spending much of this week in the air or in an office.
Las Vegas High boys basketball coach Jason Wilson closed his eyes, clicked his heels together three times … and came away with a victory Thursday night.
Beibut Shumenov realized he had to change his boxing style if he was ever going to win a world championship.
Only in the Super Bowl can a golfer (Phil Mickelson), a hockey star (Sidney Crosby) and a socialite/TV personality (Kim Kardashian) figure into the outcome of a wager. This is a football game unlike any other.
The betting public has already picked a side. The Indianapolis Colts are 51/2-point favorites over the New Orleans Saints on Feb. 7 in Miami, and Las Vegas sports books are getting flooded with cash on the Colts.
The books and contrarians will pull for Drew Brees and the Saints to slay the NFL’s Goliath quarterback, Peyton Manning.
Boxing trainer Roger Mayweather pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony charges that he beat and choked a female boxer last August.
Camouflage cap turned backward, Alex Smythe gave the camera his best teenage tough guy squint. He couldn’t quite pull it off.
As more photos appeared during Smythe’s memorial service Monday, the handsome young man’s sunny, fun-loving personality seemed to warm the Palm Mortuary chapel on an otherwise miserable day.
RENO — Sens. Harry Reid and John Ensign have written a letter to Army Secretary John McHugh hoping to get the Army to add training support to the Hawthorne Army Depot mission statement.
A state Supreme Court ruling issued Thursday could seriously delay or halt a multibillion-dollar plan to supply Las Vegas with groundwater from across eastern Nevada. In a stunning reversal of a District Court decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the groundwater applications underpinning the pipeline project might not be valid, raising the possibility that the Southern Nevada Water Authority will have to start the state permitting process all over again.
It ranks among the toughest breakups in a city with its fair share of seamy divorces. Like plenty of splits, it had everything to do with money. But with the economy in the tank and the state’s revenue plummeting, MGM Mirage and the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce have called an end to their seven-year separation. Nevada’s biggest hotel-casino operator said Thursday that it is rejoining the state’s largest trade association to create a unified front against a looming state legislative session that promises pitched battles over budgets and taxes.
Politics were put aside for a few hours Wednesday night. Sue Lowden was back in the friendly swirl of the Miss America realm.
Rock star cliches being what they are, you don’t expect a famous singer to talk about Jesus and Christianity. But politically active Art Alexakis is proudly a liberal Christian.
McCarran International Airport will get a USO lounge for military personnel after years of stalled attempts.
A 40-year-old social services organization that provides inexpensive child care for low-income families might soon be homeless because of squabbles with its landlord.
as Vegas police are investigating whether the man who killed himself at the end of a Wednesday morning standoff also killed his 20-year-old fiancee.
RENO — A former sheriff’s deputy facing a federal bribery charge denied Thursday she gave any special treatment to the jailed creator of the “Girls Gone Wild” video empire in exchange for nearly $10,000 in gifts from one of his Hollywood associates.
WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Steven Chu is poised to announce today the long-awaited expert panel to recommend alternatives to storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, congressional sources said.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The son of the man killed after he opened fire this month at the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse has been arrested in Tennessee after making numerous death threats, the U.S. Marshals Service said Thursday.
Fearing for their jobs, Clark County School District’s support staff on Thursday protested a $306,000 contract that would allow the district to privatize telecommunications services.
WASHINGTON — Nevada lost out on another multimillion-dollar economic stimulus program when the government doled out $8 billion for high-speed rail projects Thursday because a route planned for a magnetic levitation train between Las Vegas and Southern California was declared ineligible for the funds.
St. Louis Rams running back Steven Jackson has been accused of assaulting his pregnant one-time girlfriend in his valley home in March, Las Vegas police confirmed Thursday.
CAMPILLO VS. SHUMENOV II
Both the WBA and IBA light heavyweight championships will be decided when Spain’s Gabriel Campillo defends his WBA title against IBA champ Beibut Shumenov in a rematch of a heated 2009 bout narrowly won by Campillo. The fists fly at 7 p.m. today at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel, 4455 Paradise Road. Tickets are $44-$154; call (800) 745-3000.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
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