I remember the telephone conversation, the optimism in his voice and determination to build a winning basketball program and excitement about coming home. Dave Rice was talking from his car that afternoon, en route with his family from Provo, Utah, to Las Vegas.
At the same time UNLV called a news conference to announce that Dave Rice had been fired — er, came to a “mutual agreement” with his athletic administration that he would step down as Rebels basketball coach — people were parking their cars and SUVs for “Disney on Ice” at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Two people died Sunday morning in a single-vehicle crash after the SUV they were riding in fell off an overpass, North Las Vegas Police said.
Add the NFL to Donald Trump’s list of campaign trail targets. At a Reno rally, the GOP front-runner said professional football — like the United States — have both gone “soft.”
Thanks to executive actions on gun control by President Barack Obama, the spike in gun sales throughout the Las Vegas Valley following a violent terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., in December may continue.
Here are 15 of the biggest snubs and surprises from the 2016 Golden Globes.
In a night full of surprises, “The Revenant” and “The Martian” dominated the top film prizes at the 73rd Golden Globes, while Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle” and USA’s “Mr. Robot” overcame intense competition to nab the highest television honors.
The rare lack of rain perhaps paved the way for the abundance of white on the 2016 Golden Globe awards red carpet.
Who’s next? Now that Dave Rice has been fired as UNLV men’s basketball coach, who will be the next coach? Keep your eye on these names:
When Las Vegas homeless veterans advocate Cynthia K. Dias found out she had been selected by the White House to sit in the First Lady’s box Tuesday night to hear President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address, she couldn’t believe it.
The cool and dry weather in the Las Vegas Valley over the past few days is likely to continue into the coming week.
The standoff in Oregon has attracted more than cowboy-hatted ranchers preaching the Constitution and denouncing the Bureau of Land Management.
Aaron Rodgers threw two touchdown passes, Green Bay scored on five consecutive drives, and the Packers advanced to the NFC divisional playoffs with a 35-18 win over the Washington Redskins on Sunday at FedEx Field.
The Brooklyn Nets fired head coach Lionel Hollins on Sunday and reassigned general manager Billy King within the organization.
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough as well as several presidential candidates denounced comments made by drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in an exclusive interview with Sean Penn for Rolling Stone.
Somehow, someway, the Seattle Seahawks’ march to a third consecutive Super Bowl remains alive.
U.S. President Barack Obama will not publicly endorse a candidate before the 2016 Democratic primary election, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said on Sunday.
The Review-Journal Sports will unveil some new features beginning this week. Those changes began in Sunday’s print edition with columnist Ron Kantowski debuting his Las Vegas Insider. He will report on the sports people that make up the city.
One of the lasting legacies of 2015 for the Ultimate Fighting Championship will likely be the year Conor McGregor and Holly Holm went from great fighters to household names.
The current Powerball grand prize of $1.3 billion is by far the biggest lottery jackpot of all time.
Las Vegas Review-Journal sports reporter Mark Anderson becomes president of the Football Writers Association of America this morning in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The man killed in a motorcycle crash early Saturday morning has been identified.
According to celebrity gossip juggernaut TMZ, the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles is soon to go up for sale and the owner — Playboy Enterprises and not Hugh Hefner — hopes for a brazenly quixotic and international publicity assuring sale price “somewhere north of $200 million.”
If not for his dying mother and a persuasive uncle who helped raise him, Jesus “Jesse” Meraz might have spent an 11th year behind bars at the Clark County Detention Center.
You’ve heard about all those big-ticket items that are a part of the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada’s Transportation Investment Business Plan.
Faraday Future’s plans to build a $1 billion electric car manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas is viewed as positive by a national credit reporting firm.
Don’t they make you mad, those ineligible high-occupancy-vehicle lane scofflaws who treat the special diamond lane as just another travel lane?
The UNLV women’s tennis program has seen its share of standouts over the years, but the Rebels have never before had a player with the pedigree of Carol Zi Yang.
As hype mounted and the money poured in for Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s so-called “Fight of the Century” in Las Vegas, a national conversation began about the undefeated boxer’s behavior outside the ring.
Lung cancer is a great pretender. It can hide quietly for years behind symptoms that are easily mistaken for minor ailments or exhibit no symptoms at all.
