From the category of strange-but-true statistics comes this beauty: Las Vegas’ football team managed less than 150 yards of total offense on Friday night and won. In a rout.
Football games usually aren’t won or lost on the opening drive. But for a Mojave team struggling mightily on offense, marching down the field on their first possession Friday night made all the difference.
Sunrise Mountain’s Claude Moore rushed for 158 yards and two scores Friday to lead the Miners to a 34-10 road victory over Boulder City.
Kade Bunker had 15 carries for 109 yards and three touchdowns to lead Tonopah to a 43-40 home win over Sandy Valley on Friday.
McClain O’Connor completed 18 of 20 passes for 184 yards and five touchdowns Friday to help Lincoln County’s football team defeat visiting Battle Mountain, 39-13.
When the New York Giants are in a funk, it’s usually because Eli Manning stunk it up. That’s the popular storyline, and the media sticks to it. It’s routine to target the quarterback in the blame game.
Rashad Evans, a former Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight champion, knew deep down he was still capable of competing at the highest levels of mixed martial arts. But his body sure didn’t feel like it.
In the days leading up to one of his school’s most anticipated games in recent history, Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney said his phone has been bombarded with calls from old acquaintances wanting in on a piece of the action.
Replacing former UNR standout Cody Fajardo is not easy, as Tyler Stewart is finding out. UNLV’s passing game hasn’t done much since the season opener, but Blake Decker is capable of getting hot at any moment.
Get all the scores, stats and stories from Friday night’s high school football games.
For the sake of this story, I’d like to invent a new acronym: IAVS, which means, “I am very sorry.”
Arturo Bahena scored three goals Friday to lead Cimarron-Memorial’s boys soccer team to a 5-0 win over visiting Legacy.
Nikki Jackson had 16 kills and three blocks to help Coronado’s girls volleyball team to an 18-25, 25-21, 15-12 win over Bishop Gorman in the Nike Tournament of Champions in Phoenix on Friday.
State and American flags in Nevada will fly at half-staff until Tuesday in honor of the nine people fatally gunned down at an Oregon college on Thursday, the governor’s office said.
For years, NASCAR has been trying to diversify its ranks, looking for its racers, sponsors and fans to come from more diverse backgrounds.
A robber fired at an off-duty Metro cop who saw the crime as it was going down Friday night, according to Henderson police. The officer was not hit.
Three staff members of medical aid charity Doctors Without Borders were killed and more than 30 people were unaccounted for after a trauma center was hit by aerial bombing early Saturday in Kunduz, Afghanistan, the charity said in a statement.
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Las Vegas police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who seriously hurt a 5-year-old girl Friday afternoon in the west valley.
While most Clark County high school students want to attend college, many of them don’t know how to pursue and pay for a degree, according to survey findings released Friday by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The collapse of a hillside onto a town on the edge of Guatemala City killed at least 25 people and left hundreds missing on Friday, as rescue crews searched for survivors in homes buried by dirt and sludge.
A heavily armed gunman who shot to death an English professor and eight others in an Oregon community college classroom was identified on Friday as a student in the class who previously had been turned away from a private firearms training academy.
Tabor Maxwell threw seven touchdown passes, including three to wide receiver Shawn Wadsworth, to lead Pahranagat Valley’s football team to a 50-8 win at Beatty on Friday.
Three presidential candidates will make the trek to Las Vegas next week. Republican front-runner Donald Trump will have a public rally at noon on Thursday at Treasure Island’s Mystere Theatre.
A man slayed a woman and her son and then killed himself Friday morning in the southeast valley, and Las Vegas police are trying to figure out a motive.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal and other GateHouse Media publications earned 91 awards — including 31 for first place — in the Nevada Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest.
Last week, comic Dave Coulier was onstage at a college, telling a G-rated joke that included a Middle Eastern character, and the college kids began saying “Eww,” which he interpreted as political correctness. Coulier, a silly comedian who doesn’t curse onstage or do political jokes or hate humor, stopped the show for a moment.
The lights are on, the stands are full and high school football games are going on across the Las Vegas valley.
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