It was as ugly as it gets, a grinding game about defense. But there were a few style points, and Josh Adams got the credit. He let a shot fly that was a thing of beauty.
Kevin Harvick, who won the Kobalt 400 last weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, will start from the pole position Sunday in the CampingWorld.com 500 at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz.
Rafael dos Anjos defeats Anthony Pettis by unanimous decision to win the UFC’s lightweight championship, and Joanna Jedrzejczyk scores a second-round knockout over Carla Esparza to take the women’s strawweight title.
The Barclays Center, home of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, will play host to the next installment of the Premier Boxing Champions on NBC on April 11. World champions Danny Garcia and Andy Lee will headline the card in separate fights.
Bishop Gorman junior right-hander Jack Little made just one mistake Saturday, allowing a two-run homer in the sixth. Other than that, he was nearly perfect in six innings, allowing three hits and striking out five in the Gaels’ 4-2 victory over Liberty.
Pat Venditte isn’t a baseball immortal by any means, but the Oakland Athletics switch-pitcher did inspire the creation of a new rule that’s named for him. The eighth-year pro is the only ambidextrous pitcher in professional baseball.
The campaign for Las Vegas mayor is the biggest race on the April 7 primary ballot, and voters’ choices are utterly underwhelming.
It’s imperative that North Las Vegas voters remove the most reckless, arrogant and harmful elected official in Southern Nevada.
Judges command a certain amount of respect wherever they go. Even pompous, corrupt, thieving ex-judges who are in court to be sentenced for a felony.
Starting with the 1961 season, P.K. Wrigley, the Cubs’ spendthrift owner, decided the team no longer should have a field manager. Instead, it would have an eight-man committee of coaches. And that every month or so, one of these fungo hitters would become head coach.
New Mexico State’s four seniors combined for 55 points, 17 rebounds and 13 assists, and the top-seeded Aggies rolled to an 80-61 victory over No. 3 Seattle in the championship game of the Western Athletic Conference tournament — the fourth straight title for New Mexico State.
Dave Rice just concluded his fourth season as UNLV’s coach, his second straight without a postseason appearance, and it is no secret that his job is in jeopardy after an 18-15 season. Rice and athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy are expected to meet this week.
The Wildcats, who have been flirting with one of the four No. 1 seeds that will be handed out Sunday for the NCAA Tournament, whipped the Ducks for the third time this season, 80-52. Former Findlay Prep star Brandon Ashley was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player.
What’s behind the push for an NHL team in Las Vegas? The courtship between Florida investor Bill Foley and the Maloof family took about 18 months before they clinched the partnership deal.
Bishop Gorman right-hander Jack Little made just one mistake Saturday, allowing a two-run homer to Liberty’s Nick Rush in the sixth inning.
A.J. Amelburu scored the winning run on a throwing error with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning Saturday to lift Green Valley’s baseball team to a 3-2 home win over Palo Verde.
Gianna Carosone homered in the bottom of the fourth inning to break a 1-1 tie and lift Rancho’s softball team to a 2-1 win over Faith Lutheran in the championship game of the Colorado River Invitational in Needles, Calif., on Saturday.
Mason Archer and Bailey D’Alessio each won two events Saturday to lead Sierra Vista’s boys swimming team to a 168-69 win over Spring Valley at Pavilion.
Alexis Domingo won the 200-yard individual medley in 2 minutes, 27.72 seconds on Saturday to help Arbor View’s girls swimming team to a 150-133 win over Desert Oasis at Pavilion.
A sea of green showed up on Water Street in downtown Henderson on Saturday to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. The second day of a three-day celebration featured the 49th annual parade and festival presented by the Southern Nevada Sons & Daughters of Erin.
Jack Lund Schofield, a former Nevada legislator and member of the state Board of Regents, died Friday, according to local officials.
Southern Nevada is in relatively rarified air with two medical schools being created in such close proximity. Officials at Roseman University of Health Sciences and UNLV are part of a new era of medical school expansion in the United States, a growth spurt not seen since the late 1960s and ’70s.
On the heels of announcing that he’ll shoot the third and final film in his “Clerks” trilogy this May, Kevin Smith has confirmed that “Mallrats 2” is also in the works.
For parents in places where marijuana is legal, a major concern is how the legalization will affect their school-age children.
Canyon Springs’ Bradley Alexander finished first in three individual events Saturday in the Heitkotter Invitational at Faith Lutheran.
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