FONTANA, Calif. — Kevin Harvick isn’t one of those drivers who jumps out front and stays there all the way to the checkered flag.
When a double-digit favorite such as Kansas bites the dust, the common reaction is shock and awe. Bill Self had a loaded team and a clear path to the championship. The odds were in his favor.
Some Las Vegas mayoral candidates seem to be starstruck by Hollywood this campaign season, calling as they are for incentives and enticements to lure more film and TV productions, or perhaps a large studio, to Southern Nevada.
If you’re unemployed, you’re about to get some breaks. Tax breaks, that is. Some unemployed job hunters are eligible for tax deductions related to their search for a new position. And with joblessness hovering around
Wad up the NCAA Tournament office-pool bracket and shoot it in the trash. Two long-shot teams are in the Final Four, and President Barack Obama, an astute observer of college basketball, went 0-for-4.
The recent advertisement supporting Dr. Michael Kaplan — the Las Vegas Valley urologist whose medical license was suspended for reusing single-use needle guides — sheds a faint light on a little-known truth. Although a medical device is labeled single-use only, it might have been used before.
The Glantz-Culver line has made Kentucky a 2-point favorite to beat UConn, and Butler a 2½-point favorite over VCU in the two Final Four games.
Even in the unpredictable, anything-goes world of March Madness, this is a Final Four nobody saw coming.
Kentucky, Connecticut, Butler and Virginia Commonwealth — the improbable, the implausible, the unthinkable and the downright unimaginable.