The NBA Summer League concluded its fifth day on the UNLV campus with six games. Tournament play begins Wednesday at 1 p.m.
In the first half of the Los Angeles Lakers’ 78-65 win over the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Summer League, D’Angelo Russell scored 13 points in the final four minutes. In the second half, he deferred and got his teammates involved.
Jason Day arrives at Royal Troon Golf Club in Scotland as the 8-1 favorite in this week’s British Open. U.S. Open winner Dustin Johnson is the second choice at 9-1.
Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth are matched against the rest of the field in one British Open proposition wager at the Westgate sports book.
Las Vegas’ Jessie Vargas was all set to fight Kell Brook in a welterweight unification bout until the English boxer decided to jump ship and take on Gennady Golovkin.
Manny Pacquiao is set to return to the ring on either Oct. 29 or Nov. 5, according to Top Rank promoter Bob Arum. But Pacquiao later released a statement saying he never discussed a return bout.
A year ago, Travis Taijeron traveled to Omaha, Nebraska, for the Triple-A All-Star Game as the 51s’ lone representative. This time around, he has some built-in friends.
George McPhee, the former Washington Capitals general manager, will be named the GM for the expansion Las Vegas NHL team at a news conference at 1 p.m. Wednesday at T-Mobile Arena.
The one major strike that continues to overshadow what is often an entertaining enough game on its own merits is the fact that the winner of the All-Star Game gets home-field advantage in the World Series.
Cortez Masto reports $3.4 million in campaign cash. Catherine Cortez Masto’s U.S. Senate campaign has raised nearly $3 million in the quarter that ended June 30.
UFC lightweight contender Tony Ferguson is excited to step back in the cage on Wednesday even if he won’t be facing one of the bigger names on the division like he had planned.
At a memorial for slain police officers, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that a week of deeply troubling violence has appeared to expose “the deepest fault lines of our democracy.”
Two Italian commuter trains collided head-on Tuesday in the southern region of Puglia, killing at least 22 people and injuring scores more, officials said.
Right-hander Diego Delgado tossed a four-hitter and the Cats cruised to a 4-1 victory over the Las Vegas Mustangs in the Connie Mack state baseball tournament at CSN. They will face either the Las Vegas Crusaders or the Summerlin Panthers in another elimination game at 2 p.m. Thursday.
A state panel on Tuesday approved a $1.8 million settlement in favor of the Nevada Department of Education over a botched student testing program.
No one was charged in the shooting death of 16-year-old Aric Brill for seven years, but court documents indicate that a man told a fellow jail inmate specific details about the killing a month after it happened.
Bob Delaney appeared at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas on Tuesday night to talk about how he went from an undercover agent assigned to bust up New Jersey crime families to respected NBA official.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said the league is not ready to expand and is content having Las Vegas serve as the home to the NBA Summer League and USA Basketball.
Las Vegan Kris Bryant homered on the first pitch he saw, but second-inning homers by Kansas City’s Eric Hosmer and Salvador Perez powered the American League to a 4-2 victory over the National League on Tuesday night in the 87th All-Star Game before 42,386 at Petco Park.
A former drug runner living in Las Vegas once encountered a man who claimed to be the infamous “skyjacker” D.B. Cooper. Although the story of that encounter sparked a five-year investigation by a group of volunteers, the FBI announced Tuesday that it is no longer actively investigating the 45-year-old mystery.
The teenager shot and killed at an apartment complex near the North Las Vegas Airport Monday has been identified by the Clark County coroner as Robert Joseph Bustos II, 17.
Las Vegas police need assistance identifying a man who robbed a business near Rainbow and Charleston boulevards about a month ago.
Las Vegas police deployed search and rescue units to the Kyle Canyon area of Mount Charleston to find two missing hikers, officials said Tuesday afternoon.
As always in politics, it’s what isn’t said that’s the real story.
Estefani Guillermo, a 20-year-old Las Vegas native, said she was turned off by Donald Trump’s controversial rhetoric regarding immigrants — an anger that the national “Immigrant Voters Win” campaign wants to cultivate for November’s elections.
The state Board of Examiners on Tuesday approved using $414,000 in legal settlement funds received by the attorney general’s office to expand the testing of backlogged rape kits held by the Washoe County sheriff’s office.
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