It’s a long shot, but for the Buffalo Bills to still have a shot at the playoffs in December is rare. Their odds would become more realistic with an upset of Peyton Manning.
Colby Jackson didn’t play up to his usual high standards during the Clark basketball team’s first three games of the season, and Chargers coach Chad Beeten let his senior point guard know it. Jackson responded with a strong outing Saturday night.
There is no shortage of suitors who want to be part of a proposed super fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao in 2015.
Colby Jackson didn’t play up to his usual high standards during the Clark basketball team’s first three games of the season, and Chargers coach Chad Beeten let his senior point guard know it.
Bishop Gorman’s boys basketball program has not been short of skilled players recently. Sometimes there’s an overload of talent, which forces coach Grant Rice to send players to the junior varsity just to get playing time.
Vietnam War veteran Steve Lowery of Las Vegas has the scars, the medals and his Marine Corps medical records to prove he was wounded when his 12-man reconnaissance team was attacked on March 5, 1969. Then he ran into the Reno VA benefits office, which refused his benefits claim.
Robbie Lawler felt he let an opportunity get away when he slowed down late in the fight and dropped the fifth and final round of an Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight title bout to Johny Hendricks in March. He wasn’t going to let it happen again.
Darrion Daniels and Cameron Burton each scored 18 points Saturday to lead Valley’s boys basketball team to an 84-53 home win over Lincoln (Colo.).
If you’re not tuned in to the annual tradition that is Tony Sacca’s “Merry Christmas Las Vegas” TV special, you’re either new to town or unskilled in the art of deep-cable channel exploration. Longtimers know Sacca for … well, something. Years of local TV shows and commercials add up.
Cardale Jones — the Buckeyes’ No. 3 quarterback — led Ohio State to a Big Ten title. Jones threw for 257 yards and three touchdowns and was named the game’s MVP in his first career start, leading No. 6 Ohio State to a 59-0 rout of No. 11 Wisconsin.
Las Vegas TV station KTNV-Channel 13 was fined for representing paid ads as “Special Reports” in 2009, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
Florida State has made its case to play for a second straight national championship. Jameis Winston threw for 309 yards and three touchdowns, and second-ranked Seminoles held off No. 12 Georgia Tech 37-35 Saturday night to win their third consecutive ACC championship.
It was half-past pumpkin pie time early Thanksgiving evening when Larry Lyon began the trip from a friend’s house in Kyle Canyon down State Route 157 toward the lights of Las Vegas.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told a meeting of Western governors in Las Vegas on Saturday that the U.S. government’s goal is to find a way to save the sage grouse without having to list it as an endangered species.
Mallory McGwire poured in 32 points Saturday to lead Reno’s girls basketball team to a 58-44 win over Faith Lutheran in the High Sierra Winter Challenge in Reno.
The UFC has signed professional wrestler C.M. Punk, and he intends to make his mixed martial arts debut in 2015. President Dana White announced the deal during the UFC 181 pay-per-view show Saturday night.
Shadow Ridge’s wrestling team placed third Saturday in the Green Valley Duals tournament.
Wild burros in the northern Pahrump Valley are being gathered and moved to prevent roadside hazards along state Route 160, according to the Bureau of Land Management.
Buyers in China had offered 15 times more than it sold for, but a record-setting 4.16-pound white truffle still brought in a nice chunk of change. It sold for $61,250 at a New York City auction.
Russell Booze doesn”t have a famous father, he isn”t the nation”s top prospect at his position, and he didn”t commit to a college while in seventh grade like some of his teammates. But when Bishop Gorman”s football team needed a spark Saturday, the Gaels looked to Booze.
Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy has defeated Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, denying her a fourth term and extending the GOP’s domination of the 2014 midterm elections that put Republicans in charge of Capitol Hill for the final two years of President Barack Obama’s tenure.
Poor shooting again plagued the UNLV women’s basketball team Saturday as Utah dealt the Lady Rebels a 62-49 loss in Salt Lake City.
Tate Martell opened the season splitting time with Bishop Gorman’s second team. He finished the season with an incredible performance in leading the Gaels to their sixth consecutive state football championship before a crowd that included former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali.
The UNLV Athletic Department hopes to make its sports sponsors into sports marketing partners. Corporate sponsors such as Findlay Toyota or Boyd Gaming Corp. might play the roles of marketing partners to help promote the Rebel sports brand and sell tickets.
Mission accomplished! A group of rocket enthusiasts launched a porta-potty into the sky Saturday in southwestern Michigan. It made an arc and almost landed on a spectator’s pickup truck, 2,000 feet away.
A grassroots movement formed by activists around the world to end street harassment planted seeds in Las Vegas on Saturday at The Gay and Lesbian Community Center.
Blake Sims threw a pair of touchdown passes, T.J. Yeldon and Derrick Henry each had a couple of touchdown runs, and top-ranked Alabama pulled away in the fourth quarter to win its 24th Southeastern Conference championship with a 42-13 rout of No. 14 Missouri on Saturday.
If you were a youngster in the 1950s and 1960s, Rancho Circle was viewed as the neighborhood where money grew on trees. The place to go for the best Halloween treats. Now it is in comeback mode with a new generation.
Thousands of Santa Clauses took to the pavement on Saturday morning for the Great Santa Run hosted by Opportunity Village.
The decision of Assembly Republicans to pick a new speaker designate on Tuesday has muted criticism about the caucus leadership, and the focus now is back on policy, from taxes and education funding to economic diversification, an official with the NAACP said Friday.
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