It was LaDainian Tomlinson who crossed the goal line on a 2-yard run and carried the New York Jets to their second win-and-cover thriller of the week. Tomlinson’s touchdown was far from the deciding play of Sunday’s game, though.
Ginger Fisher holds her granddaughter, Gwendolynn Castro, in their home last week. Fisher, who has terminal ovarian cancer, is doing nothing to stop her cancer from spreading. “Sure I may miss seeing Gwendolynn make her first steps,” Fisher said. “But I won’t miss the worry and the pain.”
UNLV coach Bobby Hauck has some serious decisions to consider as his football team enters this bye week and prepares for the second half of the season.
CARSON CITY — In little more than two weeks, the Nevada Legislature — where Democrats hold healthy majorities in both houses — might be dominated by more conservative members of the Republican Party.
On Sunday, the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas closed in financial ruin. It was 32. And yet for the past month, the museum has been packed with six times as many customers as usual, ever since news broke internationally of the museum’s oncoming death.
After serving a four-game suspension for misconduct off the field, Ben Roethlisberger returned to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to a 28-10 victory over Cleveland today, a rare losing day for Las Vegas sports books.
Oklahoma and Oregon are in the top spots of the first BCS standings of the season, leaving Boise State chasing a spot in the national championship game.
A Las Vegas police official said that reports of a plane crashing near Moapa this afternoon were unfounded.