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Eagles’ 1-2 post punch keys victory

Boulder City’s girls basketball team is usually at its best when its post players get on a roll.

Backcourt twins set pace

Most high school basketball teams still are developing their chemistry.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT HOLLYWOOD PARK

Rested and rehearsed, No. 7 Duke coasts to win over Colorado State

DURHAM, N.C. — Duke played so many games in the first two weeks of the season that coach Mike Krzyzewski’s team had relatively little time to refine itself on the practice court. The seventh-ranked Blue Devils are starting to get that chance.

Muncy regains saddle bronc money lead

Taos Muncy started the National Finals Rodeo as the saddle bronc riding money leader and regained a strong hold on first place again Wednesday after losing it for a day to reigning world champion Cody Wright.

NFR steer-wrestling team hits the water in training

To prepare for the National Finals Rodeo, Luke Branquinho has gotten up earlier than he’d like the past month to head to the swimming pool.

Poland’s Villas, Las Vegas star in 1960s, dies

WARSAW, Poland — She was a coloratura soprano who spurned opera for popular music, a Polish singer who became a cabaret star in Las Vegas, an artist trapped for years behind the Iron Curtain when she flew home to tend to her dying mother.

Report on lobbyist spending makes a mockery of transparency

Transparency has evolved into one of those words that annoys me. Not because I don’t believe in it, I do, but because so often the transparency sought is never accomplished, and I suspect that’s deliberate.

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