LAS VEGAS MAYOR OSCAR GOODMAN didn’t see Andy Rooney’s anti-Las Vegas tirade on “60 Minutes” last Sunday, but he read the remarks and responded by calling Rooney a “sourpuss, misanthropic curmudgeon.”
RENO — Canyon Springs’ quest for the Class 4A boys state track championship fell short Saturday at Damonte Ranch High School.
Jay Gibbons went 4-for-5, including the go-ahead RBI single in Albuquerque’s five-run sixth inning, in the Isotopes’ 11-10 Pacific Coast League win over the 51s on Saturday night in Albuquerque, N.M.
LAMAR, Colo. — On a sweltering, wind-swept afternoon in a nondescript town, Bryce Harper grabbed a bat and took his best shots, and in doing so he authored another colorful tale that will be retold for years by the few who witnessed it.
RENO — Bishop Gorman absorbed Rancho’s punch to the gut, and came back with its own knockout blow.
After months of talking a good game about finally addressing a root cause of massive revenue shortfalls — unsustainable growth in county employee compensation — the County Commission blinked Monday. It punted on third down, approving a 2010-11 budget that, at least for now, bails out public employee unions that insist on collecting generous pay raises, even as local tax collections continue to decline.
Several Nevada Department of Wildlife volunteers recently were honored for their service at the Nevada Wildlife Federation’s 60th annual awards banquet at the Clark County Shooting Park. The event was in the state-of-the-art education center that serves as the new home for NDOW hunter education classes.
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I was talking to Tony Hawk at a party a few months ago. (I know that’s name-dropping, but it happened, and it’s relevant.) I told him I suck at skateboarding, because I’m not 20 anymore. Hawk, 41, looked at me in disbelief as I uttered that excuse, staring at me past his midlife crow’s feet.
The room is silent as he stares at himself in the mirror. Instead of putting on his usual choice of a white T-shirt and tennis shoes, he is wearing a soldier’s uniform. Instead of carrying textbooks in his hands, he grasps a leather-bound folder. Inside is the key to his future.
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