Glenallen Hill, manager of the Albuquerque Isotopes, once hit a legendary home run at Wrigley Field that landed on the rooftops across the street in left field.
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Kyle Dake has won four NCAA wrestling championships at Cornell, in four weight classes, and also belongs to a prestigious secret honor society.
Had he won the Cup Series championship, NASCAR’s popular Dale Earnhardt Jr. said he would have retired on the spot at the Las Vegas awards banquet.
With the NHL and NFL soon to call Las Vegas home, bringing minor league soccer to town might not be such a good idea anymore.
On Tuesday, UNLV announced the hiring of Desiree Reed-Francois, a former deputy athletic director at Virginia Tech, and put her in charge of Sam Boyd Stadium and the Thomas & Mack Center.
Eric Thames ripped the cover off the baseball during two stints with the 51s before leaving for Korea and resurfacing in Milwaukee as an early-season star.
Henderson’s Jerry Izenberg will be signing his new book “Once There Were Giants — The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing” at 5 p.m. Friday at Barnes & Noble, 567 N. Stephanie, in Henderson.
The only Vegas Grand Prix, a Championship Auto Racing Teams race run through downtown Las Vegas on Easter weekend, took place in 2007.
A Las Vegas man recently spent $1,500 to take his family to see Cleveland play the Clippers in Los Angeles, only to have the Cavaliers rest star players LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love.
There are two baseball Pedro Lopezes — the Las Vegas 51s’ new manager, and a former utility infielder who had cups of major league coffee with the White Sox and Reds.
51s president Don Logan said he didn’t hear two tall evergreen trees get uprooted from the berm in right field and topple down an earthen bank near the outdoor batting cage during a recent wind storm.
An NCAA representative dismissed a proposal to bring the women’s Sweet 16 to Las Vegas, despite abysmal attendance at this year’s regionals.
Paul Son-Dice of Las Vegas, led by former UNLV Rebels Armon Gilliam, Sudden Sam Smith and Greg Goorjian, won the 1984 AAU men’s national basketball championship on home turf.
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