Beyond what you might know about UNLV’s freshman basketball star Brandon McCoy exists a side unknown to most who cheer his every dunk. The 19-year old, who plays five instruments, embraces a love for music and its power to inspire far beyond a court and rim.
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The NFL team in a most elegant and respectful manner on Monday fused the most tragic of moments in the town’s history with what is one of its most celebrated and significant.
The deadliest terror attack in New York since 9-11 won’t break the city, much as the Route 91 Harvest shooting hasn’t shattered Las Vegas.
This is the place folks like to say is a drinking town with a sports problem, where purposefully setting your friends on fire isn’t as much criminal act as communal endorsement of a longstanding love affair with all things Buffalo Bills.
The Knights are 7-1 to begin their inaugural season, having continued their historic beginning with a 4-2 victory against Chicago.
The similarities between Nashville and Las Vegas are striking, from market size to an attractive entertainment destination for tourists to an insatiable appetite for major league professional sports.
After four seasons with the Washington Capitals, Nate Schmidt will play a major role in professing how winners act, prepare and attack each morning skate and game for the NHL expansion team.
Long before he delivered Las Vegas its first major league professional franchise, Bill Foley became intrigued by those techniques that went into making Chardonnay and Pinot noir.
Should he resort to MMA tactics and be disqualified Saturday against Floyd Mayweather, Conor McGregor reportedly could lose 90 percent of a $75 million purse.
Wide receiver Darren Palmer is a 26-year-old junior walk-on who made the Rebels after impressing coaches at an open tryout and then during spring ball.
The most difficult step for a university to make is admitting it fumbled an important decision, and yet for as much as social media unmercifully ripped the confusing new Hey Reb! mark, it appears those in charge are standing behind it.
It was three months ago when Mark Kriegel, an accomplished boxing author whose works include “The Good Son: The Life of Ray ‘Boom Boom’ Mancini,” predicted to me how the buildup to a Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight would eventually turn.
A grand jury in Ohio chose not to indict Raiders first-round draft pick Gareon Conley on rape charges, meaning the only thing standing in the way of him being on the field at training camp are shin splints.
For the first time since 2003, the team opened training camp when coming off a winning record and playoff berth.
The rookie point guard mattered a ton, and the fact the Lakers won the entire thing and drew the number of fans they did was equally significant.