ESPN and the Mountain West Conference are close to a seven-year TV deal, ESPN reported Friday.
The Wranglers picked up defenseman Francis Meilleur in an ECHL trade with the Bakersfield Condors, in exchange for future considerations, the team announced Friday.
Cory Welch delivered an RBI single in a three-run top of the ninth and then pitched one inning of shutout ball for the save as No. 7-ranked College of Southern Nevada completed a Scenic West Athletic Association doubleheader sweep of Salt Lake Community College in West Jordan, Utah, with a 4-3 victory Friday.
Jamaal Williams is just a few days into his first spring practice, but the sophomore-to-be at Brigham Young is running around the field like a veteran.
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Keith Appling bounced back in time to give No. 10 Michigan State a chance to share the Big Ten regular-season title.
When Quintrell Thomas transferred to UNLV from Kansas, his college basketball goals were greater than being a part-time starter over three seasons. But he’s not about to walk away disappointed. Thomas will be honored Saturday with seniors Justin Hawkins and Anthony Marshall before the Rebels’ regular-season finale.
Talk this week has been how the new Generation-6 cars would fly at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and whether the track record set last year would fall. Driver Denny Hamlin’s talk netted him a NASCAR fine of $25,000 for giving what appeared to be mild criticism of the Gen-6 car. Hamlin didn’t take the penalty well.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A jury in Kingman, Ariz., deliberated 45 minutes Thursday before convicting a Kingman man of the attempted murder of his estranged girlfriend and the murder of her teenage daughter.
It’s not the highest-profile political race in Southern Nevada, but the campaign for the Las Vegas City Council’s suburban Ward 4 seat is among the feistiest.
It’s early in the Michael Roberson era at the Legislature, and his political acumen is still being measured, but it’s already clear the Republican state senator knows how to start a donnybrook.
A fire caused $150,000 worth of damage to a west valley home Thursday afternoon, the Las Vegas Fire Department said.
At least 1,700 teachers are expected to be hired for the 2013-2014 school year, lowering average class sizes by two students in the Clark County School District, officials announced Thursday.
NEWARK, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie says he’ll take the fight to legalize sports gambling in New Jersey to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary.
Marriott International received the approval needed to become a landlord this week.
Assembly Republican leaders on Thursday said they will push for major changes to the state’s prevailing wage law and the public employees retirement system this session, but they are not looking to make bargains to accomplish their agenda.
BMM Testlabs, the international gaming product testing laboratory company, celebrated its new relocated Las Vegas headquarters with a ribbon-cutting Thursday and plans to hire about 100 workers in the next two years.
District Judge Valerie Adair has ordered an independent medical evaluation of Dipak Desai to verify he had a stroke and determine the extent of brain damage. The judge also ordered prosecutors and defense attorneys to continue preparing for Desai’s April 22 criminal trial stemming from a 2007 hepatitis C outbreak.
With rain forecast for the Las Vegas Valley starting this afternoon, the Sprint Cup qualifying and practice runs at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway could be in danger of being pushed back or even canceled.
You’ve got some good choices among hit-making DJ-producers in nightclubs this week.
Sander van Doorn can be a beast of a songwriter. He combines clean bass beats with sexy notes that slide together, in hits such as “Joyenergizer.”
The St. Patrick’s Day celebration at J.C. Wooloughan’s at the J.W. Marriott, 221 N. Rampart Blvd., starts early — on Thursday, with live music daily through March 17. Festivities include a happy hour from 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday through March 16, with $5 Irish appetizers and 50 percent off Irish draft beer, and continue March 17 when the party starts at noon ($20 cover after 3 p.m.) …
Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining Guide, with Asian restaurants this week. Restaurants are rated on a letter-grade scale, from A to F. Opinions by R-J critic Heidi Knapp Rinella (H.K.R.) are indicated by initials. Price symbols are based on the cost of an average entree: $ = entrees less than $10; $$ = entrees between $10 and $20; $$$ = entrees between $20 and $30; and $$$$ = entrees more than $30.
I should have known that something as ostensibly simple as garlic knots wouldn’t be so simple if it came out of Giovanni Mauro’s kitchen.
Jam band Widespread Panic returns to The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel on July 12 and 13, with Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Tickets start at $49.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. today at The Joint box office, 4455 Paradise Road.
Their tunes tend to wash over you, a rising tide of recalescent guitar burn and space-case vocals frothing on the shoreline.
