Fast-rising 51s second baseman Dilson Herrera was recalled to the New York Mets during Thursday’s Pacific Coast League game against the Reno Aces at Cashman Field. The 21-year-old was hitting .370 in 20 games for Las Vegas in his first Triple-A season.
Senior right-hander Zach Dunham pitched a three-hitter as Coronado upset second-ranked Basic 5-2. Dunham threw 125 pitches in the complete-game effort against Basic, which had won 22 consecutive games.
Arenacross is at the South Point Arena on Friday, and that sport is the feeder system for Supercross, which concludes its season Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Trainer Bob Baffert has two good reasons to feel confident about winning his fourth Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday. They are American Pharoah (5-2) and Dortmund (3-1).
John Avello, Wynn Las Vegas race and sports book director, analyzes the 20-horse field for the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
A sample of Kentucky Derby propositions and matchups posted at the Wynn Las Vegas sports book:
Coronado’s baseball team had secured a playoff berth before it took the field Thursday. But the Cougars were reeling as the postseason loomed, having lost four straight and 11 of 15.
In a high-stakes poker game, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers pushed their chips to the middle of the table and went all-in on Jameis Winston. But the odds are Winston will turn out to be a joker in the deck.
Floyd Mayweather Sr., who trains his son, was his entertaining self Thursday with the media. Most of the questions he couldn’t understand, especially from the foreign journalists. Those he did understand, he answered with equal parts alacrity and disdain.
Ishe Smith, a former junior middleweight champion from Las Vegas, left no doubt he still has something left, winning a 10-round unanimous decision over Cecil McCalla on Thursday in the main event of a boxing card at the Palms.
Turns out, Assembly Speaker John Hambrick was never in danger of being recalled.
By the time Josh Hardy was 7 years old he had beat cancer four times. After a bone marrow transplant, he became infected with a rare virus that no drug on the market could effectively treat. However, there was a new medicine being developed in North Carolina that was showing promise in a small clinical trial. Naturally, Josh’s mom, Aimee, wanted it for her son, but neither she nor Josh’s doctors could get it.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who has a net worth of $4.2 billion, is fairly accustomed to getting whatever he wants. In November, he wanted the fight of the millennium: undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. against fellow boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao. Mr. Jones would have staged the megafight at his glitzy palace, the 100,000-seat AT&T Stadium, arguing that he could produce the largest gate in boxing history.
Freddie Roach is a Hall of Fame trainer who for years has gone over in his mind every detail, every form of strategy, every potential surprise and counteraction, every movement that could decide a fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Nevada’s housing markets continued their slow slog toward normalcy in the first quarter, as distressed sales and investor activity declined, according to a Thursday report from California research firm RealtyTrac.
Metro homicide detectives and the Clark County Fire Department are investigating a dead body found in a burnt-down motor home Thursday night.
For a boxing match hyped as the “fight of the century,” there sure are a lot of available tickets out there. Here’s where you can find over 1,000 tickets as of Thursday night for Saturday’s showdown between Mayweather and Pacquiao.
A 2-year-old child was resuscitated after being found at the bottom of a swimming pool Thursday night, Las Vegas police said.
The first round of the 2015 NFL Draft only featured two trades – the fewest this century – but it certainly was not without intrigue. Ten takeaway’s from Thursday’s first round:
N.J. Makaiwi had 44 assists and 12 digs, and Cody Heathcock added 14 digs Thursday to help Shadow Ridge’s boys volleyball team force a three-way tie for first place in the Southwest League with a 16-25, 25-16, 26-24, 25-23 win at Palo Verde.
Dung Luu, who now lives in Las Vegas, will never forget what happened after North Vietnamese tanks rolled into Saigon 40 years ago on April 30, 1975, and put the former South Vietnamese capital under communist control.
Sonja Lawrence went 2-for-4 with two doubles and three RBIs as Centennial’s softball team secured the Northwest League title with a 17-4, six-inning win at Desert Oasis on Thursday.
A diverse group of 18 Nevadans, from former U.S. Senator Richard Bryan to Latino leader Otto Merida, on Thursday endorsed Catherine Cortez Masto to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.
A.J. Landis and Nolan Kingham combined on a five-hitter Thursday to lead Desert Oasis’ baseball team to the Northwest League title with a 3-1 victory over visiting Centennial.
Hunter Ulibarri had a hole-in-one and earned medalist honors with a 1-over-par 72 at River’s Edge on Thursday to lead Boulder City’s boys golf team to victory in an 11-team match.
A New Jersey IRS revenue officer was arrested in Las Vegas Thursday in an alleged scheme to hide personal income and prepare false tax returns for other people.
The only May weather record threatened this weekend is the fighter’s, as temperatures will be hot in Las Vegas, but not hot enough.
Jameis Winston was taken by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with the first pick of the National Football League Draft on Thursday and was followed by fellow quarterback Marcus Mariota, marking the first time Heisman recipients went 1-2 in the draft.
