The Korean War ended before Jim Simmons could be a combat fighter pilot. But on Friday afternoon in Henderson, the 84-year-old took to the skies in the same plane he last flew in training in the early 1950s.
Tucker Thomason tossed a six-hit complete game, and Palo Verde got an early lift from Will Hamilton”s solo home run in the first inning during a 6-2 victory over No. 8 Coronado. Thomason held the Cougars scoreless before a two-run double to Jacen Yergensen in the seventh.
To say Harry Reid belongs on Nevada’s hypothetical Mount Rushmore suggests that three other people have wielded influence comparable to the longtime U.S. senator. In reality, no other figure in Nevada’s 150-year history has built as much power for himself — and as much leverage for the state — as the Searchlight native, who announced Friday morning that he would not seek re-election to a sixth term.
Sen. Harry Reid’s retirement raises questions about the future of the powerful political organization he has used to keep an iron grip on the Nevada Democratic Party for a decade.
Wide receiver Tysson Poots, who starred at Coronado High School and Southern Utah, is expected to play a prominent role for the Las Vegas Outlaws, the Arena Football League expansion franchise that will play its first game Monday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Tucker Thomason tossed a six-hit complete game, and Palo Verde got an early lift from Will Hamilton’s solo home run in the first inning during a 6-2 victory over No. 8 Coronado. Thomason held the Cougars scoreless before a two-run double to Jacen Yergensen in the seventh.
The 7-5 loss was a tough one for UNLV, which needs to win the series against San Diego State, the first-place team in the Mountain West, to have a realistic chance to establish some momentum in what has been a disappointing start to the season.
Mojave’s Kationa Baughman won three individual events Friday, and shattered the meet record in the 300-meter hurdles to earn Outstanding Female Athlete honors at the Grant Bushman Invitational in Overton.
Actor Darius McCrary was jailed on Wednesday for failure to pay child support.
Brandon Wulff had two hits, including a two-run homer, and three RBIs to help Bishop Gorman’s baseball team to a 5-1 victory over host Tucson (Ariz.) in the championship game of the Chris Moon Cherry Field Classic on Friday.
Gizelle Navarro’s single down the left-field line with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning Friday scored Janella Fiso with the winning run as Virgin Valley’s softball team rallied for a 6-5 home win over Pahranagat Valley.
Travis Trice led Michigan State with 24 points, including six points down the stretch, and Denzel Valentine chipped in with 18 to lead the No. 7 Spartans to a 62-58 win over the No. 3 Oklahoma Sooners in an East Regional semifinal at the Carrier Dome on Friday.
If it feels like Wisconsin and Arizona just played each other for a Final Four berth, it’s because they did. The Badgers and Wildcats clash in the Elite Eight for the second straight year, with the West Region title at stake.
Alahjan Banks had 15 kills and three aces Friday to help Cheyenne’s boys volleyball team rally for a 14-25, 25-21, 18-25, 25-22, 15-11 victory over visiting Cimarron-Memorial.
Justise Winslow scored a game-high 21 points as top-seeded Duke outlasted fifth-seeded Utah 63-57 on Friday night in an NCAA South Regional semifinal game at NRG Stadium.
Nevada’s new Court of Appeals issued its first published opinion Thursday, a day after hearing oral arguments for the first time. In its opinion, the court upheld the prison sentence imposed on Jimmy Pitmon in an attempted lewdness case.
You can take your cats to Bonanza Cat Hospital on Sunday and have them sit on the Easter Bunny’s lap, so you can have photos taken, Santa-style.
The UNLV men’s swimming and diving team participated in four events Friday and is in 28th place after the second day of the NCAA Championships in Iowa City, Iowa.
Kentucky reached the Final Four in 2011, won the NCAA Tournament in 2012 and was the national runner-up in 2014, while Notre Dame has not reached the Final Four since 1978. They’ll meet Saturday in the Midwest Region final.
Jhonny Gonzalez, the World Boxing Council featherweight champion, makes his third title defense when he faces Gary Russell Jr. on Saturday in the 12-round main event at the Palms’ Pearl Concert Theater before a national TV audience on Showtime.
Sean Miller is arguably the country’s best recruiter not named John Calipari. Miller is also considered an expert coach, having led teams to the Sweet 16 six times and Elite Eight four. But he is also the latest to own this moniker: Best coach not to have reached a Final Four.
Wisconsin plays for the right to reach a second straight Final Four today when it meets Arizona in the West Region final. Should they win, the Badgers then could face a national semifinal matchup against undefeated Kentucky.
My joke with people who run races is always the same dumb joke: “Who are you running from?”
A hang-gliding instructor and his 12-year-old student died Friday afternoon after a crash on a dry lakebed near Jean, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush hasn’t officially said he’s running for the White House, yet he’s already got his eye on Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval as his potential vice presidential running mate.
Canadian Olympic athlete Daundre Barnaby drowned while swimming in the ocean on Friday during a training camp at the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, Athletics Canada said in a statement.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid announced Friday that he will not seek re-election, a decision that signals the oncoming end of an era in Nevada and scrambles the political landscape in the state and in the nation’s capital.
Sen. Harry Reid announced Friday that he will not be seeking re-election. Here’s how his friends and foes from across the political spectrum reacted to the news: