There are still some fans here who aren’t willing to forgive the bruising center for helping eliminate UNLV from the NCAA Tournament in March. Eglseder was part of the Northern Iowa team that defeated the Rebels before shocking top-ranked Kansas in the second round to advance to the Sweet 16. As Eglseder was warming up prior to the game, a few fans had some not-so-flattering things to say. It probably would have been much worse for Ali Farokhmanesh, the Northern Iowa player that hit the game-winning shot.
CARSON CITY — Nevada employers could be hit with automatic increases next year in the taxes they pay to provide unemployment benefits for their laid-off workers.
Chris Sheff, who directed Bishop Gorman High School to the past five Class 4A state baseball championships, today was named the new baseball coach at the College of Southern Nevada, the school announced.
Tim Grgurich, Stacey Augmon, John Welch and Romel Beck are in town representing the Denver Nuggets, bringing a strong connection to past UNLV teams as the NBA Summer League gets rolling.
LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Lohan will be going to jail without one of her biggest advocates – her attorney. The actress’ attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, resigned from the case shortly after releasing a statement Thursday calling a judge’s 90-day jail sentence for Lohan “harsh and unfair.”
BERLIN — Eyes around the world were on Germany’s octopus oracle Paul on Friday as he made his biggest prediction yet in the World Cup: Spain will beat the Netherlands in the final. Paul’s prescient picks in the World Cup – he has yet to predict a match wrong – have propelled him to international fame from obscurity in an aquarium in the western city of Oberhausen.
LOS ANGELES — Mel Gibson was named Thursday as a potential suspect in a domestic violence investigation involving his ex-girlfriend, Russian singer Oksana Grigorieva, earlier this year, sheriff’s officials said. The disclosure came after detectives interviewed Grigorieva about the alleged attack at an undisclosed location in Malibu. Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said Grigorieva was the only person interviewed so far in the case.