A trade brought Mike Jacobs to Las Vegas in late July, and although he’s from San Diego, he already feels at home here.
Perhaps the next time MAACO Bowl Las Vegas executive director Tina Kunzer-Murphy extends an invitation to new UNLV football coach Bobby Hauck it will be for something a little different.
J. R. Rider, Years: 1991 to 1993, Career highlights: Ranks 15th on the scoring list with 1,372 points in 55 games; career average (24.9) ranks second.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Chael Sonnen spent weeks telling everyone exactly what he was going to do when he fought Anderson Silva for the Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight title.
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted last week to confirm Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, making her the fourth woman and 112th person to sit on the nation’s highest body of justice.
Evidence of an economic recovery was hard to find last week, as two gaming giants reported weak second-quarter results, vacant land prices tumbled and new benefits for the long-term unemployed were proposed in Congress.
OVERHEARD ON THE POLICE SCANNER: “I don’t feel bad about you bringing doughnuts the other day.”
As soon as Michelle Taylor looked in the mirror, she knew something was wrong. She now viewed the world through two narrow slits, and the area beneath one of her eyes had turned blue.
Days of a single Top 40 AM radio station dominating a city’s airwaves are gone. In the ’60s and ’70s, top stations could be heard from one end of the block to the other, one end of the desert to the other and one end of our world to the other.
Burlesque may have high-kicked the bucket on the Strip. But underground in Las Vegas, tassles are twirling like it’s 1949.
Carlos Terrazas, a blind man, never thought he would be part of a cycling adventure that would take him from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City. That was until he met Dominic Gill, who picked him up at the Blind Center of Nevada and put him on the front seat of a custom tandem bicycle. Their goals were simple: To travel. To share. To inspire.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Anderson Silva took a pounding for nearly five full rounds, but secured a triangle choke to submit Chael Sonnen and retain the Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight title in the main event of UFC 117 at Oracle Arena tonight.
Today’s high temperature, recorded at McCarran International Airport, the valley’s official weather station, reached only 99 degrees. That means the end of a 45-day streak of 100-degree or higher temperatures, according to the National Weather Service.
Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen International could be one of the more competitive races we’ve seen on the 2.45 road course over the last 13 seasons. Just by looking at the wide array of unusual’s who had quality practices Friday and by witnessing Jimmie Johnson win at Sonoma in June, almost anything looks to be possible Sunday.