SPARKS — Sparks City Council members are asking employees to again accept a pay freeze and concede benefits next fiscal year to prevent layoffs and reduce part of a $1.7 million budget shortfall.
In giving Rachel Alexandra the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year, we officially pinned the first loss on Zenyatta. And it was not a pretty sight.
Tight end was not a prominent position in previous UNLV football coach Mike Sanford’s offense. It apparently will be under new coach Bobby Hauck.
Once again the New York Jets are heavy underdogs, and their overweight coach, Rex Ryan, is running his big mouth.
His alarm clock would sound at 3 a.m., and by 5:30, Tom Smallwood would have made the 90-minute drive through Michigan to the General Motors plant in Pontiac. He would assume his spot in the assembly line and wait for the next truck to roll by. He would bolt in the seat belts, make certain the most important safety feature of any automobile was secure and await the next one. He would do this for eight to 10 hours a day, for about 400 new trucks a shift.
If the season ended today, the Wranglers would advance to the ECHL Kelly Cup playoffs by virtue of placing seventh in the eight-team National Conference.
Sierra Vista’s Teena Baxter started the season slow while recovering from a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
A messy government contract dispute that resulted in a $52 million award in late 2008 to the builder of the problem-plagued Regional Justice Center has a new twist.
A thrill seeker named Donald Schultz is living in a glass box full of snakes in front of O’Shea’s on the Strip.