The final opportunity to impress computer polls and human polls and any other entity that claims to know which are the nation’s finest high school football teams each season came for Bishop Gorman on Friday night, when the Gaels hosted a perennial power from New Jersey, complete with tough kids and one of those quintessential East Coast booster/hanger-on/Jersey Guys strolling the sidelines.
Even before the trick-play debacle, Chuck Pagano’s job was in jeopardy. Under his leadership, which now appears clumsy at best, the Indianapolis Colts are getting as stale as month-old bread.
Seven weekends ago, just one game into his fourth season, Mike Leach was under siege. His record as Washington State’s coach had dipped to 12-26.
Biaggio Ali Walsh didn’t score a touchdown in the first three quarters as Bishop Gorman’s football team built its lead Friday night. But the junior running back piled up some key clock-eating yards in the fourth quarter, and his 1-yard TD run sealed a 30-16 win over visiting Don Bosco Prep (N.J.)
Olivia Kaiser had eight kills, and Mariah Martin dished out 17 assists to help host Calvary Chapel’s volleyball team hand White Pine its first Division III Southern League loss of the year, 25-21, 25-16 in the second match of a doubleheader on Friday.
Another Friday night means another full slate of high school football in Southern Nevada.
For those in dire need of making birdie or at least par, this short par 4 was the answer during the second round of the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at TPC Summerlin.
Christian Ong and Akshay Daulat had no idea three years ago that they would end up being a part of something special.
Bishop Gorman sophomore Aaron Bailey didn’t want to know the score at any point during his team’s state championship match against Palo Verde on Friday.
A U.S. Navy team tasked with recovering the voyage data recorder of the missing cargo ship El Faro arrived to the 100-square-mile search zone late Friday and has begun searching, according to Naval Sea Systems Command spokesman Chris Johnson.
The Affordable Care Act was supposed to improve the quality of health insurance and make coverage more affordable, as well. The uninsured were supposed to flock to insurance exchanges, as were millions who were already covered.
Kansas City used some daring base-running to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 in Game Six of the American League Championship Series on Friday as the Royals advanced to the World Series for a second consecutive year.
Ricardo Gonzalez, Isaac Arellano and Nathaniel Reyes each scored a first-half goal Friday to help Western’s boys soccer team hold off visiting Clark, 3-2.
Smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico border have become so sophisticated in moving drugs that one “super tunnel” raided this week featured a railway.
Brett Stegmaier managed to stay out of trouble, which can sometimes be no easy feat at TPC Summerlin. So when he started making birdies, threw in an eagle at the par-5 16th all the while playing bogey-free golf, he was rewarded with the top spot on the leaderboard at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.
CHICAGO — Murder rates are soaring this year in many U.S. cities partly because police are holding back from aggressive tactics, fearful of being taped on smartphones and accused of brutality, FBI Director James Comey said on Friday.
Amid new scrutiny of American capital punishment practices, President Barack Obama said in an interview released Friday he was disturbed by the practical effects of the death penalty.
It’s been influencing global cuisine for centuries, but Peru’s culinary scene is finally getting the attention it deserves. And for foodies, it’s a destination worth checking out.
Ryan Palmer came to Las Vegas this week with a heavy heart and loads of incentive. His father, a longtime Shriner who was active in the golf tournament the organization hosts at TPC Summerlin, died in a traffic accident in Texas in mid-August. Butch Palmer was 71.
As he prepared to make the turn to play his back nine at TPC Summerlin on Friday afternoon, things were looking grim for Rickie Fowler and for those who run the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.
Already, the always-reserved New York Post has dubbed Canada’s Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau “the hottest first lady in the world.” We wouldn’t get involved in a discussion like that, but it did make us wonder: Who might be counted as among the United States’ most influential first ladies?
When Jeff Belcher and his husband, Bong, came across an advertisement for model home showings at The Ogden, they never imagined they would find their dream home at the high-rise community in the heart of downtown Las Vegas.
Pardee Homes will hold a grand opening today at Meridian, its newest Southern Nevada neighborhood.
Coldwater Crossing by Pulte Homes offers spacious backyards, roomy floor plans and mesa views.
At Cadence, a 2,200-acre master-planned community southwest of Lake Las Vegas on Lake Mead Parkway, homebuyers are looking for Internet access within their neighborhood. And, that is just what they are getting.
Mortgage rates mostly didn’t budge this week as the lending industry continues to adjust to new disclosure forms implemented less than three weeks ago.
