Coach Tony Sanchez and the UNLV football team took their turns in front of the camera Thursday for media day at Sam Boyd Stadium. Here’s a look.
More than five years have passed since then-18-year-old Kawhi Leonard scored 16 points and grabbed 21 rebounds to lead San Diego State over UNLV for the 2010 Mountain West Tournament championship at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Anderson Silva, a former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champion, admitted an attempt to enhance his performance was to blame for positive steroid tests before and after his Jan. 31 fight with Nick Diaz.
After getting no input in 30 days, the Bureau of Land Management will give the public more time to weigh in on its plans to fast-track solar energy development on 25,000 acres in Lincoln County.
Since 2006, USA Basketball’s men’s national team has found a summer home in Las Vegas. But when the organization unveiled plans a couple of years ago to build a new headquarters in Tempe, Ariz., the fear was the move from Colorado Springs, Colo., to Tempe also would mean saying goodbye to Las Vegas.
This weekend, all eyes are on Arlington Park in the suburbs west of Chicago. The Arlington Million Festival of races will include three Grade 1 turf stakes: the Arlington Million, Beverly D and Secretariat.
Will Dustin Johnson suffer another major meltdown at the PGA Championship? Will Jordan Spieth join Ben Hogan (1953) and Tiger Woods (2000) as the only players to win three golf majors in one season? Will Rory McIlroy regain his form as the world’s top-ranked golfer in his return from an ankle injury?
A development group is pitching the city of Las Vegas on a plan to convert Cashman Field into a professional soccer venue as the first step to attracting a Major League Soccer franchise to Sin City.
If majors continue to slip from his grasp, Dustin Johnson will be stuck with the label of a career underachiever. The critics will say he squandered his immense talent, that he never could win the big one.
They tend to live in the moment around USA Basketball. Never reacting much to the past, rarely predicting the future. They also don’t seem to hold grudges. At least not against one of the world’s best players.
In the wake of the news that Jets quarterback Geno Smith would miss six to 10 weeks with a broken jaw suffered in a locker-room fight with linebacker IK Enemkpali, the New York tabloids added insult to Smith’s injury with some harsh headlines and several amusing Interent memes popped up as well.
An environmental report issued Thursday threw another log on the fire over the controversial Yucca Mountain project.
Guinness World Records named Corduroy as the world’s new oldest living cat on Thursday.
Eagles are vicious animals, and now there’s a point-of-view video to prove it.
It’s a crapshoot whether the valley will see any rain on Friday following a thorough soaking by Thursday’s thunderstorms. Rainfall left thousands of homes without power and flooded streets Thursday, and there’s a 50 percent chance of more wet weather Friday afternoon
This weekend, you can head back to the gangsta rap heyday of the 1980s or the mod, Cold War 1960s.
Hector Gomez’s two-out, bases-loaded RBI single in the ninth inning sent the El Paso Chihuahuas to a 5-4 win over the 51s in a Pacific Coast League game Thursday in El Paso, Texas.
UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman will defend his belt against Luke Rockhold in the co-main event of UFC 194 at MGM Grand on Dec. 12.
Think you can’t afford a spin in a private jet — jacuzzi included — or a night at a lavish, five-star hotel? Think again. A dedicated group of frequent fliers (or “aero-sexuals”) have mastered the fine art of scoring travel freebies. They share their top tips on getting that free ride.
The Clark County School Board voted unanimously Thursday to appoint President Linda Young to a technical advisory committee that will help develop a plan to deconsolidate the Clark County School District.
NFL fans got an eyeful — even if it was preseason — as Red Rock Resort debuted new screens in their sports book.
Nevada has received $1.6 million in AmeriCorps grants, money that will be used to aid and promote volunteer efforts targeting a host of causes, from education and rural healthcare access to environmental restoration and veteran services, the governor’s office said Thursday.
Suspended attorney Barry Levinson, a convicted player in the scheme to take over and defraud homeowners associations, was handed a second stiff prison sentence Thursday, this time for stealing more than $1.1 million from his clients.
Police are hunting for a man detectives said strangled his mother in the south valley Thursday.
New episodes of “Sesame Street,” the iconic and beloved children’s television show, will start premiering on HBO this fall.
Valley water officials do not expect a toxic mine spill in Colorado to cause any measurable problems at Lake Mead, but they are stepping up their sampling program just to be sure.
Her screams, and the thumps of fists on her flesh, were so loud that neighbors called security, who found her naked and bound.
Since National Cupcake Day is today, we offer these five local cupcake places to get your appetite ready.
Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan is backing away from plans announced in June to retire at the end of the 2015-16 season.
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