Three high school playoff games were scheduled in Southern Nevada on Veterans Day. So it seemed appropriate that one should have a lineup consisting solely of veterans.
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The Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame’s new exhibit on the concourse is as spiffy as the rest of the building.
Tony Fields II, who starred on both sides of the ball for Desert Pines’ 2016 Class 4A state championship team, made the Cleveland Browns’ roster as a rookie linebacker.
Bishop Gorman’s Zachariah Branch returned a punt 93 yards for a touchdown and caught a 53-yard TD pass, and that pretty much was the difference in the Gaels’ victory.
The Chicago White Sox gave the VIP treatment to a retired Las Vegas man and his ailing lifelong friend for a memorable day at Guaranteed Rate Field.
Evidence suggests Henderson resident Jim Fassel, who died at age 71 Monday, threw the last pass in the short-lived history of the World Football League.
He’s considered the fastest thing on four wheels by most, but NASCAR star Kyle Busch of Las Vegas is still seeking his first victory in the Daytona 500 after 15 tries.
NBC hockey analyst Pierre McGuire discusses what it’s like to be inside the glass for the most unusual playoffs in NHL history.
Former UNLV soccer star Simon Keith received the gift of life from Roger Groves’ son, a schoolboy soccer player in Wales who died of a brain hemorrhage on the field in 1986.
Clint Bowyer threw a gutter ball in a South Point 400 promotional event Monday that was indicative of his NASCAR racing season lately.
A year after Travis Pastrana honored Evel Knievel’s legacy by jumping 52 cars, 16 buses and the fountains at Caesars Palace, another flying leap by a motor sports daredevil didn’t go as well.
At UNLV, Hunkie Cooper played six positions — quarterback, running back, wide receiver, defensive back, punt returner, kickoff returner — before becoming one of the Arena Football League’s all-time best players.
Add baseball Hall of Famer and Athletics’ roving instructor Rickey Henderson to the list of those impressed by the new Las Vegas Ballpark.
When the Goodyear Blimp was spotted flying over Shadow Creek at the Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson golf match, little did Las Vegans realize they were casting eyes on the newest member of the College Football Hall of Fame.
It was 11:30 Wednesday morning when the J.T. Realmuto Baseball Winter Meetings morphed into the Scott Boras Show. The super agent held a news conference to update media on client Bryce Harper’s free-agent status.