During the week, Jose Diaz assumes the persona of Faith Lutheran Junior/Senior High School’s coolest computer teacher. When the weekend rolls around, he becomes “The Snake” for the Golden State Pirates, a Southern California paintball team.
Here are a few things in news, sports, entertainment and pop culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
The countdown has begun: Only six days until Christmas. By this time, a lot of shoppers have already busted their budgets but are far from finished with their Christmas lists. Or, they have some names on their lists that they just don’t want to spend a lot of money on.
We saw scared kids and excited kids and crying kids and smiling kids and pretty much every other variation one might devise on the theme of “kid meeting Santa Claus.”
The Las Vegas Review-Journal Business section is asking the local business community for help in compiling its survey of local companies and executives about their plans, expectations and goals for the upcoming year.
Three stars are aligned for the Atlanta Falcons: quarterback Matt Ryan, running back Michael Turner and wide receiver Roddy White.
Three days after his worst game of the season, UNLV sophomore Anthony Marshall was the best player on the floor.
It was a brazen robbery that resembled a Hollywood heist movie, and the payoff may prove to be just as fictional.
Google the phrase “hot blond tina in jail’ and, in less than a quarter of a second, 351,000 results pop up on the screen. Just don’t expect to see the now-infamous YouTube video of an obviously intoxicated Tina Vlijter waiting to be booked into the Clark County jail.
Follow the link for Saturday’s boys and girls basketball box scores.
UNLV (10-2) beat Southern Utah (3-8) in a nonconference game at the Thomas & Mack Center tonight. The Rebels go on the road Tuesday to face No. 6 Kansas State.
A Saturday morning fire caused $100,000 worth of damage to a home, the Henderson Fire Department said. Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at 10:44 a.m. at the home at 134 Monteen Drive, near Pecos Road and Wigwam Parkway.
A series of winter storms bearing down on California on Saturday was threatening parts of the state with flooding. Rain is expected to hit the Las Vegas Valley for the next several days.
The Utah Grizzlies followed a scoreless first period with two goals in each of the final two periods to gain a 4-1 ECHL victory over the Las Vegas Wranglers on Friday at West Valley City, Utah.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In one week, No. 7 Tennessee followed one of the most impressive wins of the college basketball season with two clunkers full of missed shots and late-game breakdowns.