The earth’s shadow can be observed during twilight hours, assuming the sky is clear. It stretches over 180 degrees of the horizon. It’s a hefty dose of darkness. It must be how David Stockton feels some days as a point guard for Gonzaga.
Starting pitching has been tremendous for UNLV’s baseball team, but the Rebels’ hitting has been erratic. Much of that is due to a lineup that has been hit hard by injuries.
Scott Gafforini, a four-time champion at Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s Bullring, finished second last season. With a new car, he’s ready to reclaim the title as a new season is getting ready to begin.
Another great day of basketball is on tap. We’re going to go to San Antonio for today’s featured matchup, though.
The next two point races on the Road to the Kentucky Derby will be in the Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park on Saturday and the Sunland Derby at Sunland Park on Sunday.
The board of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange agreed at its Thursday meeting to offer a special enrollment period for as many as 300,000 Nevadans who began but never finished an application for insurance coverage through Nevada Health Link’s website.
Faith Lutheran softball coach John Chilman owes Cheyenne Kidd one.
Ashlyn Ames’ hit off the wall with no outs in the bottom of the ninth inning Thursday scored Kayla Stephens for the game’s only run as Arbor View’s softball team nipped visiting Rancho, 1-0.
Ask anybody if UNLV should become a Tier 1 “Very High Research” university, and most people will say yes.
For once, foul winter weather was helpful to Cleveland, Columbus, Kansas City and Denver. (And sunny Phoenix, too.) A massive East Coast snowstorm kept Las Vegas from making its pitch for the 2016 Republican National Convention to the RNC’s Site Selection Committee on March 3. That gave the aforementioned five bidders a head start in persuading Washington types to stage the GOP’s big show in their cities.
We frequently use this space to criticize government bodies and urge politicians to plot a different course. Sometimes we praise our representatives for doing the right thing. Seldom do we see an elected official, in taking a stand and publicly demanding an end to wasteful nonsense, deserving of a standing ovation. And high fives and fist bumps. And maybe even a hug.
The Nevada Wildlife Department and Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Las Vegas plan a series of workshops on the preparation of game meats. The first workshop, highlighting big game, is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in Technique Restaurant at Le Cordon Bleu, 1451 Center Crossing Road. It’s $40. Registration is required; visit http://bit.ly/1c4Q8hT. …
Whole-bellied clams. They’re one of the foods readers seem to miss most from the East Coast and New England, one of the things they most frequently say they want to find in Las Vegas. As far as I know, Lazy Joe’s Fish &Chips is about the only place in town that serves them.
Saxophonist David Sanborn and singer-guitarist Jonathan Butler were born worlds apart — but share a lifelong love of music that changed their lives as children.
Alt-rockers Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden team up at The Axis at Planet Hollywood on July 19, with Death Grips. Tickets are $59.50, $79.50, $99.50 and $125 and go on sale at noon Friday at The Axis box office, 3667 Las Vegas Blvd. South, and Ticketmaster outlets.
No, the guy didn’t swallow the microphone.
Faith Lutheran softball coach John Chilman owes Cheyenne Kidd one.
There are no sand dunes in Sweden.
“I feel like I’m gonna die,” Lydia Loveless sings, though that might not be the most accurate way to describe her actions: Singing is a conscious act, and this feels different, her words reflexive and involuntary, like the sound you make when you drop something heavy on your foot.
So you like your March Madness with a chaser of New Orleans funk?
This week, Las Vegas police announced that the disappearance of Irma Mkrtchyan, a Farmer’s Insurance agent, is being handled as a homicide. Her ex-husband and children say they have been questioned, but they have no clue where she might be — or if she’s alive.
Basic’s baseball team strung together its only three hits of the game to score two runs in the bottom of the fifth in a 2-1 home win over Spring Valley on Thursday.
Zaire Franklin had 16 kills and nine digs, and Trent Compton added 14 kills and 10 digs on Thursday to help Legacy’s boys volleyball team outlast visiting Palo Verde, 25-17, 11-25, 23-25, 25-12, 15-8.
Sorry, rest of the world. Las Vegas — or at least everyone who saw the Jabbawockeez at the Monte Carlo — already knew all John Legend needs is a piano.
Smile! You’re dead, thanks to Portland psych rockers A Happy Death, who come with “rock ’n’ roll for the end of the world” at 10 p.m. Thursday at the Double Down Saloon, 4640 Paradise Road. The show is free; call 702-791-5775.
Blake Taylor shared medalist honors with a 1-over-par 37 at Bear’s Best on Thursday to help Bishop Gorman’s boys golf team to a 192-199 win over Foothill.
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