Professional sports bettors — aka sharps or wiseguys — typically don’t play big favorites, but on Saturday they were all over Auburn, which was laying 23 points at home to Texas A&M.
In a long season, every NFL team experiences ups and downs. The Baltimore Ravens were regarded as the class of their division not long ago, but John Harbaugh is now the coach of a last-place team.
The Rebels lost again Saturday, and just how much the program has descended was on display in an embarrassing 48-21 loss to Air Force.
Whether it’s a beer festival, country music concert or truck race on a dirt lot across from the Luxor on the Strip’s south end, MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment Corp. are among the landowners and event promoters using open space as outdoor venues.
Imagine Dragons played a surprise three-song acoustic set that doubled as a benefit for the music programs of various local schools.
Ovince St. Preux knocked out former light heavyweight champion Mauricio “Shogun” Rua in the first round of the main event of an Ultimate Fighting Championship card in Uberlandia, Brazil, on Saturday night.
As Chris Algieri wraps up preparations for the biggest fight of his life, he does so with the knowledge that a lot more people know about him now than they did before he agreed to fight Manny Pacquiao on Nov. 22 in Macau.
Diego Magdaleno’s first appearance at 135 pounds was a successful one, as the Las Vegas boxer scored a third-round knockout of Hevinson Herrera on Saturday in their 10-round main event bout at Pharr, Texas.
Two people were hospitalized after a crash that closed the intersection of Vegas and Rancho drives Saturday night, according to Las Vegas police.
Haley Vicente has a remarkable sense of timing.
Dajour Braxton could have sworn he heard footsteps in the closing stretch of Saturday’s Division I boys state cross country meet at Sunset Park.
Ashlyn Huntington had 10 kills Saturday to lead White Pine to a 20-25, 25-21, 25-23, 25-21 victory over host The Meadows in the Division III Southern League title match.
Eric Sanchez was quiet for 87 minutes Saturday.
Senior guard Norman Powell led UCLA to a lopsided win in a closed scrimmage Saturday, teaching UNLV’s freshmen a lesson in the process.
Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval was Nevada’s biggest winner in Tuesday’s election — and not just because he earned another four years in office in a landslide victory with more than 70 percent of the vote.
Dajour Braxton could have sworn he heard footsteps in the closing stretch of Saturday’s Division I boys state cross country race at Sunset Park.
Understandably, Kayla Roberts looked a little dejected just after finishing the Division I state girls cross country meet Saturday at Sunset Park.
Eric Sanchez was quiet for 87 minutes on Saturday.
Coming from behind has not been a strength of the Palo Verde boys soccer team this season.
Haley Vicente has a remarkable sense of timing.
Coronado’s Michaela Morris draws plenty of attention and for good reason, as the senior leads the area’s Division I girls soccer players with 43 goals.
Jorge Molina had already sent the Sunrise Mountain boys soccer team to the state tournament with his game-winning goal over Clark on Wednesday night.
It was a defensive battle for most of the Division I-A Southern Region girls soccer championship game.
An off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent was arrested on Saturday in connection with the shooting death of a 27-year-old man at a Southern California home, police said.
White Pine’s girls volleyball team entered Saturday’s Division III Southern League tournament championship on a 17-match winning streak.
An off-the-cuff comment by the attorney general to cut off a news conference about the apparent killing of 43 missing college students has been taken up by protesters as a rallying cry against Mexico’s corruption and drug trade-fueled violence.
Follow the link for the schedule and results (when available) for the region volleyball tournaments in Southern Nevada.