After several weeks of what he called “careful consideration,” Khem Birch made a curious call. UNLV needed him, and the NBA was not asking for him, but the junior forward took the jump anyway.
I’ve long suggested adding the Kentucky Derby to your bucket list. It is a unique piece of Americana in the heart of the bluegrass.
Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky’s new Pledge of Achievement is aimed at holding the school district, and the community, accountable for student success.
Clark County rancher Cliven Bundy has put the Bunker in Bunkerville. As in Archie Bunker.
The Strip is getting a new arena. The sparkly, state-of-the-art, super-sized kind. And without a single tax dollar.
BALTIMORE — Looking back at the last time he competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship in January 2012, Anthony Johnson is a harsh critic of himself.
The 51s played for the big inning, scoring four times in both the fifth and seventh innings to rout Tacoma 11-4 at Cashman Field Thursday in a battle of division leaders.
How Las Vegas drivers performed in the various NASCAR series.
There are those who would argue that Sonny Vaccaro helped create the biggest problem in college sports when he began handing out money in the late 1970s to basketball coaches so players would wear Nike shoes.
“The KOMP 92.3 Homegrown Show” brings together a trio of must-see local acts when The People’s Whiskey, Wax Pig Melting and Revolve team up at 9 p.m. Friday at Whiskey Dick’s, 2750 E. Craig Road.
Old-school Las Vegas showmen are a vanishing breed, so we’re lucky some of them got an early start.
Even the miserable depths of heroin addiction sound oddly whimsical when cataloged by Les Claypool, a man with a cartoon voice and a similarly animated approach to turning progressive rock on its pointy head.
Chris Kampshoff had 17 kills, 19 digs and two aces, and T.J. Esporas added 16 kills and 17 digs Thursday to help Las Vegas High’s boys volleyball team to a 20-25, 25-17, 19-25, 25-20, 15-11 win at Green Valley.
The Arbor View baseball team has won in a variety of ways during its current 13-game winning streak.
Ellie Endsley hit a two-run home run Thursday to help visiting Spring Valley’s softball team upset No. 2 Palo Verde, 5-2.
Spring Valley’s baseball team scored three runs in the fifth inning on Thursday to rally for a 4-3 road win over Palo Verde.
Being arrested by his own sheriff’s department isn’t going to slow down Rick Marshall. A leading candidate to replace Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo in November’s election, Marshall held a 30-minute press conference Thursday night to tell his side of the story after returning to work.
It’s the funniest song title of the year, and it comes from a band as mirthful as the vivisection of Grandma’s beloved Pomeranian. “F!@# Unicorns.”
The Arbor View baseball team has won in a variety of ways during its 13-game winning streak.
Rockers Kings of Leon headline the MGM Grand Garden arena on Sept. 27, with Young the Giant and Kongos. Rapper M.I.A. is at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on May 31. And country star Keith Urban performs at The Cosmopolitan on Aug. 31.
Bradley Keyer fired a 3-under-par 69 at Black Mountain on Thursday to help Coronado’s boys golf team win a Southeast League match.
How about a rematch with Seattle and another road trip to New England? Those are the so-called highlights of the Denver Broncos’ regular-season schedule, which calculates as the second toughest in the league. It’s not necessarily a doomsday scenario, but for Peyton Manning, it’s definitely not getting any easier.
Wright Waters heads the Football Bowl Association, and Bill Hancock leads the College Football Playoff. Both want to see college football’s bowl system remain strong.
Thomas Misuraca’s “Little Black Book,” winner of Las Vegas Little Theatre’s 2014 New Works Competition, opens a three-weekend run Friday in LVLT’s Fischer Black Box space.
It’s an inviting malevolence, voiced by a fellow dressed as an evil skeleton pope. Sweden’s Ghost often sounds like Blue Oyster Cult, the Beach Boys and Black Sabbath all at once. These days, their congregation is growing fast. Who exactly counts themselves among the band’s flock? Read on and find out.
Last month was one of the hottest Marchs in history — except in the United States.
NASA feared that if the primary computer, ‘the entire space station would be in jeopardy.’