Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya have been doing business together since their May 2007 fight. But as Mayweather’s career winds down to a precious few fights, that relationship could change.
Floyd Mayweather’s immense popularity at the box office and through pay-per-view receipts is born directly from two factions. Those who love him. Those who, well, don’t.
It was perfect timing. Chip Kelly, an innovator and magician at the college level, picked the right time and place to see if his offensive wizardry would work in the NFL.
The Rebels entered this season with hopes of becoming the first UNLV team to reach a bowl in back-to-back years, and they wanted to contend for the Mountain West conference’s West Division.
It’s rare when Steve Spurrier finds himself in this position.
When it comes to distractions, Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s out-of-the-ring adversaries have had about as much success getting to him as the 46 fighters who have tried to beat him inside the ring.
Trenton Carmell threw for two touchdowns, ran for one and had an interception Friday to lead Boulder City’s football team to a 32-13 win at Rancho.
Arbor View football coach Dan Barnson knew he had some banged-up players Friday, but he never doubted that depth would lead his squad to a victory.
Nationally ranked Bishop Gorman survived its second straight scare in two weeks, defeating Centennial Corona 43-42 on Friday night in Corona, Calif.
James Thurman gathered his team around for a postgame meeting, and the first thing Las Vegas High’s football coach did was point to his throat.
Kylen Camat-Toki isn’t Liberty’s starting running back, or the backup or even the backup to the backup.
Ethan Fridman hauled in two touchdown passes from Jacob Gleason to help The Meadows’ football team to a 21-14 home win over Battle Mountain on Friday.
Scotty May ran for 192 yards and five touchdowns Friday to lead Tonopah’s football team to a 59-40 home win over Quest Academy.
Kobe Williams scored five touchdowns Friday to lead Agassi Prep’s football team to a 56-20 win over Lutheran (Calif.) in Chula Vista, Calif.
The New York Times is hardly a defender of the oil and gas industries. The newspaper is more likely to rip fossil fuels, sound the climate change alarm and sing the praises of heavily subsidized — and hugely expensive — green energy technologies. So the editors of the Gray Lady had to swallow hard this week when they published a bit of undeniable reality: fracking is saving the economy.
Floyd Mayweather appeared on CNN’s “Unguarded with Rachel Nichols” on Friday night. His PR team probably wishes he hadn’t.
Both Liberty and Gorman managed to pull out close wins on Friday night. Check our scoreboard for all the results for high school football teams around the valley.
Star Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson plans to post bond after being indicted Friday on a charge of child abuse stemming from his using a branch to spank his son. Peterson was swiftly benched by the team on Friday for this weekend’s game against New England.
The officer who shot a suspect in an early Saturday string of convenience-store robberies knew the man to be armed and “very violent,” North Las Vegas police said on Friday afternoon. Police on Friday were still looking for two additional people in the case.
Martin Vasquez scored the game-winner off a free kick early in the second half Friday to lift Western’s boys soccer team to a 2-1 win at Cheyenne.
Ariel Blockovich had five kills, 16 assists, five aces and five digs Friday to help Desert Oasis’ girls volleyball team to a 25-19, 25-8, 25-17 sweep of visiting Eldorado.
Chloe Henderson and Kristen Newell each went 3-0 in singles, and Palo Verde’s girls tennis team swept the nine doubles sets Friday en route to a 17-1 win over visiting Bishop Gorman in a rematch of last year’s Division I state final.
Nevada’s public schools ratings were released Friday, along with detailed data on student performance, discipline and staffing for the 2013-14 school year that’s used by the Nevada Department of Education to assign one to five stars to 633 campuses.
The son of Robert Downey Jr. pleaded guilty on Friday to cocaine possession and was sentenced to a drug diversion program that could result in his conviction being dismissed.
A teen was wounded in a northwest valley shooting Friday evening, Las Vegas police said. The girl, 17, was shot in the left knee as she was walking up steps.
A 16-year-old boy was arrested at Mohave High School Thursday afternoon in connection with a Sept. 5 shooting that left a woman dead.
A Michigan woman caused a social media firestorm after she mistakenly thought her husband had been discriminated against for his military uniform by a man she described as Arabic.