Stephen Zimmeman, Chase Jeter and Zach Collins give Bishop Gorman’s boys basketball team unmatched size, and playing the three big men together might seem like a good idea on paper.
Green Valley boys basketball coach Lorenzo Jarvis was asked what he was most proud of Saturday, and his answer consisted of six sentences. In that span, Jarvis used the word “fight” five times.
Arbor View girls basketball coach Annette Turley took her team into the Lady Wolves Holiday Tournament hoping her players would gain experience and perhaps a few wins.
Even on an off night, Delon Wright had enough going on to hold off UNLV. Wright, one of the top guards in the Pacific-12 Conference, was not at his best Saturday night but still scored 17 points to lift 14th-ranked Utah to a 59-46 victory over the Rebels at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Deasia Walker had 26 points Saturday to help Eldorado’s girls basketball team to a 50-48 win over Western in the Vegas Invitational at Mountain View.
Kayla Watterson had 11 points and 10 rebounds Saturday to lead Coronado’s girls basketball team to a 48-34 win over St. Patrick (Canada) in the Tournament of Champions in Phoenix.
Every five years when UNLV fires its football coach there is a great whoop-de-doo and la-di-da about football. It usually lasts until the UNLV basketball team plays a quality nonconference opponent. Is there a program out there UNLV ought to be imitating?
A gunman who announced online that he was planning to shoot two “pigs” in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner ambushed two officers in a patrol car and shot them to death in broad daylight Saturday before running to a subway station and killing himself, authorities said.
The Detroit Lions are heading back to the postseason, clinching their second playoff berth in the last 14 seasons when Philadelphia lost to Washington on Saturday. Detroit plays at Chicago on Sunday. Also Saturday, San Diego beat San Francisco in overtime.
John Lessner and Hunter Brown each won an individual title Saturday to help Centennial’s wrestling team to a seventh-place finish in the Las Vegas Holiday Classic at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
The sons and daughters of two Las Vegas police officers who were gunned down earlier this year shed “tears of joy” when they were given an early Christmas by local firefighters and police officers Saturday night.
A turnaround play capped a turnaround season. Air Force force a Western Michigan fumble early in the fourth quarter in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl on Saturday. Linebacker Dexter Walker grabbed the ball and scored, and the Falcons went on to beat the Broncos 38-24.
Matthew Harney had 42 points and 16 rebounds Saturday to help Calvary Chapel’s boys basketball team to a 67-61 win over host White Pine in Ely.
Boxing great Muhammad Ali was hospitalized with a mild case of pneumonia that was caught early and should result in a short hospital stay, a spokesman said Saturday night.
Two men were killed and two others were injured in a vehicle-motorcycle crash on Valley View Boulevard near Desert Inn Road early Saturday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
Utah leads the nation with 52 sacks, and end Nate Orchard has 17½ of them. Colorado State standout offensive left tackle Ty Sambrailo will try to keep Orchard away from Rams quarterback Garrett Grayson.
Lisa Hinricksen always wanted to be a teacher. And not just any teacher. She’s been at it for 25 years in Las Vegas, with retirement five years away and closing in. Four of her students are now art teachers in the Clark County School District like her.
North Korea said on Saturday U.S. accusations that it was involved in a cyberattack on Sony Pictures were “groundless slander.” The Obama administration is working on an international response to the cyberattack, and hoping China — among other nations — will help rein in North Korea.
A mass of demonstrators chanting, “Black lives matter,” converged in the Mall of America rotunda Saturday as part of a protest against police brutality that caused part of the mall to shut down on a busy day for holiday shopping.
Kevin Rubio, 28, of North Las Vegas, and six others were trying to pass an RV in pairs on state Route 160, five miles west of state Route 159 about 1:45 p.m., NHP said.
Seventeen-year-old Zakariyyaa McIntyre reached out to Walker Furniture for the annual Home for the Holidays program after sleeping on the floor of her grandmother’s apartment alongside three other children for 15 months.
The Rebels are 10-point underdogs tonight when they face No. 14 Utah at the MGM Grand. Tip is 8:30 p.m.
Commissioner Roger Goodell informed teams there would be no relocation to Los Angeles for the 2015 season.
Christmas Day might be a cloudy and cooler one for Las Vegas, according to the National Weather Service.
The allegations of plagiarism and intellectual property theft have raised questions about whether the chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education understands basic principles of academia.
Follow along as this Doctor’s Bag toy set makes its journey from a donation center to the hands of a needy child on Christmas morning.
Tesla’s massive battery factory being built in Northern Nevada will be a thirsty resident, with some preliminary estimates saying it will require the equivalent of nearly half of the groundwater rights allocated to its Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center neighborhood.
Utah scored 21 points in the first quarter — a Las Vegas Bowl record — and didn’t slow down much after that. The Utes ran over Colorado State, 45-10, on Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
A man who died early Saturday morning after crashing into a parked van near Bermuda Road and East Silverado Ranch Boulevard was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as Terry William Jones, 41, of Las Vegas.
Some hard-working people never get the recognition or respect that is truly deserved. It might be a maid, a mailman or a mechanic. It also could be a blue-collar quarterback such as Ben Roethlisberger.
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