A couple of visitors were chatting with Eric Meeks in the pro shop at the TaylorMade Golf Experience out on Las Vegas Boulevard recently, where he operates the Eric Meeks School of Golf. It was coming up on the 25-year anniversary of Meeks having qualified to play in the Masters.
Noah Syndergaard was slow to get started in his second Triple-A start, and the 51s followed suit in a 7-4 loss to the Sacramento River Cats on Wednesday night at Cashman Field.
The reigning WBO welterweight champion has newfound fans and improved confidence thanks to impressive wins since his controversial split-decision victory over Manny Pacquiao in 2012. The two meet again on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden.
Texas Tech football coach Kliff Kingsbury apparently is known for more than just his innovative offense. Supposedly, he bears a resemblance to some actor named Ryan Gosling that women seem to find attractive.
There is no shortage of tall tales on the bookshelves of fishing lore. Perhaps the most common are stories about the ones that got away, and they are probably the most frequently updated. Not far behind are big-fish stories followed by tales of precious time spent with special people, but among my favorites are those that combine reality with humor to create a picture of the near miraculous.
LAKE MEAD — Largemouth bass have been the active fish of the week. Most success has been found using various crankbaits working through about ten feet of water. Anglers are finding fair action for striped bass with live shad or anchovies. Catfish are becoming more active as well and can be found in the back of coves.
Rancho senior Brandy Marlett looked as if she could pitch all day Wednesday.
Mitchell Rathbun ripped an RBI single with no outs in the bottom of the seventh to break a 3-3 tie and give Palo Verde’s baseball geam a 4-3 win over visiting Sierra Vista on Wednesday.
Kennedy Wharton and Eimainei Thomas-Palmer each won two individual events and ran on a winning relay team on Wednesday to lead Valley to a 77½-59½ win over visiting Rancho.
Tensions mounted at the site of a federal cattle roundup in northeastern Clark County on Wednesday, as armed militia group members from Montana set up camp at Cliven Bundy’s ranch house and Bundy family members and supporters scuffled with BLM rangers.
Mucuranyana Amon won the 3,200-meter run on Wednesday to help Clark’s boys track team to a win in a four-team meet in Overton.
Xochitl Quintero scored the winning run on a passed ball with no outs in the bottom of the seventh inning Wednesday as Virgin Valley’s softball team rallied for a 14-13 win over visiting Chaparral.
Darien Bradley had 20 kills and 13 digs on Wednesday to lead Arbor View’s boys volleyball team to a 25-23, 25-16, 26-28, 18-25, 15-7 win at Palo Verde.
Luke Logan shot 2-over-par 74 on Wednesday to lead Boulder City’s golf team to victory in a Division I-A Sunrise League meet at Boulder City Municipal.
Nevada Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson on Wednesday said Republicans have the best chance in years to retake control of the state Senate in the 2014 elections as the GOP closes the voter registration gap in the three most competitive districts — including his own — that are all in Southern Nevada.
Rancho senior Brandy Marlett looked as if she could pitch all day Wednesday.
California research firm RealtyTrac said Wednesday that the Silver State remained one of the nation’s top states for foreclosures, even as default activity fell here.
A Texas man was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for his role in a 1992 beating that turned the victim into a quadriplegic. Lawrence Compehos Jr. never got to see justice. He died in 2008.
The 2011 original earned $143 million in the U.S., but a whopping $341 million in the rest of the world. The sequel’s opening may be muted, though, considering the current glut of family movies, as “Muppets Most Wanted,” “Mr. Peabody & Sherman,” “The Lego Movie” and even “Frozen” are still in theaters.
Christopher Cooney tearfully told a jury Wednesday he regretted not doing more to stop the escalating feud between his mother and brother. Cooney testified during the second day of the trial of his mother, Linda Cooney, who is charged with shooting and paralyzing her son, Kevin Cooney, after a June 2011 fight over his then-girlfriend.
We may find it unlikely to see former “Hee Haw Honey” Misty Rowe directing a doo-wop show at the Riviera. But it’s just the latest in what Rowe, now 63, calls “my very strange and absurd career.”
North Las Vegas’ biggest employee union and its firefighters union have agreed to settlements with the city of North Las Vegas.
The UNLV baseball team fell 9-2 at Arkansas on Wednesday to conclude its trip at 6-3.
Things have been, well, docile, in the run-up to Saturday’s Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley rematch. So Top Rank chairman Bob Arum decided to spice things up at Wednesday’s final news conference by taking a swipe at the host property for the fight — the MGM Grand.
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