Facing the proposition of a second consecutive loss before the NCAA Tournament, it was only a matter of time before Gonzaga responded in a big way.
Martin Truex Jr. is fifth in the standings after two races, and he will start eighth in today’s Kobalt 400. He liked his car so much on Saturday that Truex cut practice short early.
Entering Saturday’s game against UNR, the running joke around UNLV’s clubhouse was that right-hander Kenny Oakley would go winless this season, but the team would still win every game in which he pitched.
Green Valley baseball coach Corey Gehlken said he was looking forward to a long nap.
A familiar face appeared at the MGM Grand’s media center Thursday for the news conference promoting Saturday’s Premier Boxing Champions card.
Keith Thurman has skills and smarts. He used both to stay perfect and remain world champion.
BOISE, Idaho — Sophomore forward James Webb III posted a double-double, leading Boise State to a 71-52 victory over Fresno State on Saturday to claim a share of the Mountain West title and the No. 1 seed for the conference tournament in Las Vegas.
After a sometimes testy relationship with Richard Childress Racing, Kevin Harvick switched to Stewart-Haas and won the NASCAR championship. “I’m as happy as I’ve ever been,” he said.
If Brad Keselowski didn’t exist, NASCAR would have to invent him. Any sport needs a highlight-film villain so that fans can better identify the heroes.
Ticket sales for 2014 were down from 2013. But overall year-to-year revenue was slightly up, and restructuring debt to reduce it by $230 million during the past four years has helped, too.
It’s unusual for sports to pop up out of nowhere and become a regular staple on the Las Vegas odds boards, but NASCAR has created its own niche with the betting public, and that all occurred when a young kid from Vallejo, Calif., named Jeff Gordon won the inaugural Brickyard 400 in 1994.
The first man to drive the famed No. 3 car in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series since the late Dale Earnhardt — aka “The Intimidator” — Austin Dillon was “The Dominator” on Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Jeff Gordon crashed toward the end of practice on Saturday, putting him in a backup car and at the back of the pack in today’s Kobalt 400. He had won the pole in the qualifying.
A few weeks ago, at Preview Las Vegas, we heard the good news that Nevada’s unemployment rate is down and our economy mostly has come back. Nonetheless, Southern Nevada is still woefully behind where it needs to be for long-term growth. Not only are we not keeping up with peer cities such as Salt Lake City, Phoenix and Orlando in terms of diverse and high-paying industry sectors, we are falling behind cities such as Omaha, Neb. — a metropolitan area less than half our size.
The school bond bill that blew through the Legislature last week came with a steep price tag — one every bit as expensive as the estimated $3.5 billion in Clark County School District construction it enables.
When the Nevada League of Cities and Municipalities introduced legislation to gut the state’s public records law and price out public access to government, the group wasn’t taking a rogue action that defied the will of the organization’s membership. Precisely the opposite was true. The league sponsored Senate Bill 28 because it had the explicit, full support of entities at every level of Nevada government.
The 4,500 residents of Sun City MacDonald Ranch do not take a position on a project around our community without researching facts. We agree that a charter school project is worthwhile if in a location that would not be detrimental to the surrounding community. Your Feb. 27 editorial, “No good reason to oppose charter school,” contained false and misleading statements in an effort to convince city officials that the proposed school is a worthwhile project at this location.