UNLV’s Khem Birch courageously played through pain and laid it all on the line. But the Rebels went out with a whimper anyway, getting knocked out of the Mountain West tournament Friday night while resembling a dispirited and dysfunctional mess in the process.
A baseball team’s third batter is typically the best all-around hitter and is the most trusted among his coaches and teammates.
Tech’s Abel Martinez hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the sixth inning to drive in Bryan Casas for the go-ahead run as the Roadrunners edged Del Sol 9-8 at Silver Bowl Park on Friday.
Las Vegas police were searching for a suspect in the death of a driver found shot after crashing on the 215 Beltway Thursday. The suspect, 27-year-old Joseph Lucero, had argued with the driver earlier that night at Lucero’s apartment on the 7200 block of Las Vegas Boulevard South, near the 215, police said.
Rachel Williams’ three-run home run keyed a five-run top of the eighth inning Friday and lifted Palo Verde’s softball team to a 5-3, eight-inning win over Coronado in the Tournament of Champions in Bullhead City, Ariz.
A colorful character, Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington dropped a half-dozen f-bombs in rapid-fire fashion while conducting an interview with the Review-Journal at Cashman Field last season during the city’s annual Big League Weekend.
In a game during which San Diego State was determined to take away UNLV’s big-man tandem of Khem Birch and Roscoe Smith, the Rebels’ guards had an opportunity to seize the moment and carry the team into the Mountain West tournament championship game. Didn’t happen. Never had a chance.
When there’s a major crash in a NASCAR race, or when the weather turns ugly, officials wave the red flag, which signals a temporary halt to racing. Drivers head to the pits and park their cars. Racing doesn’t resume until conditions are safe enough for driving at 180 mph.
Not that New Mexico needed any extra motivation. But when San Diego State’s win over UNLV went final, the Lobos knew what they had to do.
Tanner Compton racked up 17 kills, six digs and three blocks, and Zaire Franklin added 16 kills and five digs Friday to help Legacy’s boys volleyball team to a 26-24, 25-17, 21-25, 28-26 win at Arbor View.
A baseball team’s third batter is typically the best all-around hitter and is the most trusted among his coaches and teammates.
Growing up in Las Vegas, Kris Bryant was in awe of the players he saw at Cashman Field on Big League Weekend.
T.J. White and Dylan Ellis hit grand slams to lead the UNLV baseball team to an 18-2 Mountain West victory Friday night over host San Jose State.
A 31-year-old man pleaded guilty this week to pimping charges on the second day of jury selection. Christopher Thomas on Tuesday said he was guilty of one felony count each of pandering, coercion and living from the earnings of a prostitute. As part of a deal, prosecutors dropped one count of sex trafficking and living from the earnings of a prostitute.
Investigators have concluded that one or more people with significant flying experience hijacked the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, switched off communication devices and steered it off-course, a Malaysian government official involved in the investigation said Saturday.
A group of supporters gathered around Johny Hendricks late Friday afternoon in Dallas and erupted in cheer as if he had won the Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight title. He hadn’t.
A rural Nevada county has settled lawsuits with two men who said a sheriff’s deputy violated their civil rights when they were stopped for speeding on Interstate 80, searched for drugs and forced to forfeit tens of thousands of dollars even though no drugs were found and no charges filed in either case.
Toronto’s combative mayor claimed Friday that he wouldn’t know Kevin Spacey “if I ran over him,” a week after the “House of Cards” star poked fun at Rob Ford when both appeared on a late night talk show. Ford’s brother called the actor “an arrogant SOB.”
There’s a feudin’ and a fussin’ under the Fremont Street Experience canopy that’s pitting small casino owner Steve Burnstine against longtime downtown powerhouse properties the Golden Nugget and the Golden Gate, as well as the president of the Experience and Las Vegas city government.
U.S. Rep. Joe Heck on Friday demoted his campaign manager after he was ejected from a basketball game last weekend between the University of Nevada, Reno and its rival, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for making an obscene gesture during a heated exchange among fans.
Las Vegas Township Constable John Bonaventura is running for a seat on the same County Commission that voted to abolish his office last year.
As Nevada approaches its first anniversary in the online gaming market, experts from all corners of the industry — and their opposition — will gather for the iGaming North America 2014 conference next week at Planet Hollywood.
Shoulder pain can be the force that halts your physical activity and curtails your goals. It may start small and slowly build. Trauma also can be a source of shoulder pain.
The Nevada Board of Health advanced the launch of medical marijuana operations Friday, approving regulations to regulate new dispensaries that are expected to open later this year.
They could have played all day.
A Nevada prison inmate died Thursday after nearly three weeks in the hospital. Daniel Ruiz, 36, was taken to Valley Hospital after a fight with another inmate on Feb. 28. An investigation will be conducted to determine if criminal charges will be filed, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
Flaws in Nevada’s mental health system played a central role on Friday as a federal civil rights panel investigated the “dumping” of patients from psychiatric hospitals.
