Three Las Vegas Review-Journal sports department members and three professional handicappers have been given $2,000 fantasy bankrolls to bet during the NCAA Tournament — two picks per day of either sides, totals or one of each. Below are their bets for today, with a brief explanation of their picks:
It’s easy to pull for Butler and its unassuming star, Gordon Hayward. And for many, it’s easier to dislike Duke for its arrogance and elite pedigree.
INDIANAPOLIS — Yes, it’s a matchup pitting a cute bulldog against a devil, America’s favorite underdog against the team people love to hate.
Brad Stevens is familiar with the story. He knows the future king of Israel struck the Philistine with a stone and cut off the warrior’s head. He understands the tale’s motivational significance in moments like this.
The race to build a sports arena in the Las Vegas Valley shows that the business of professional sports can be just as competitive as the sports themselves.
Hells Angel Jay Dobyns was at the Flamingo hotel in Laughlin with several members of the gang on April 27, 2002, the night of the River Run riot at nearby Harrah’s casino.
He has had more surgeries than birthdays, yet 27-year-old Doug Gold wants to go under the knife again.
“Why is he alive after 30 years? He still is on death row. Time to go.” Jim Monahan has been pondering that question a lot in recent days.
The IRS is finally cracking down on the way strip clubs give $10 to $100 in bonuses to taxi and limo drivers for every customer they deliver. In a month or two, the IRS is expected to demand that strip clubs give 1099 forms to drivers.
A year ago, the federal government rolled out two ambitious plans to help put a dent in the nation’s housing crisis. Plan A was to provide funding for lenders to offer loan modifications to underwater homeowners. Plan B was to give local governments money to put families in already foreclosed homes. Both plans have yielded disappointing results, prompting an on-the-fly assessment of possible other ways to use federal housing aid. In the coming weeks, the Nevada Housing Division will decide how to spend $102.8 million in additional federal funding made available to states hit hardest by foreclosures.
In Southern Nevada, an area known as ground zero of the nation’s housing crisis, far fewer people than expected have received home loan modifications through a $75 billion stimulus program designed to reduce the impact of foreclosures on communities.
High wind from a storm system out of Northern California has prompted the National Weather Service to issue a high wind warning and a wind advisory for Las Vegas.
A suspected drunken driver was arrested after a crash that killed a 52-year-old man this morning.
TIJUANA, Mexico — One of the strongest earthquakes to hit Southern California in decades shook tens of millions of people in two countries and three states on Sunday, swaying buildings from Los Angeles to Phoenix to Las Vegas. At least one person in Mexico was killed and others were feared trapped in their homes.
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