On Saturday, I filed a blog about the NCAA Tournament — the NCAA men’s tournament — that began thusly:
Kyle Busch won another race at Auto Club Speedway in California Sunday. He suggested that Harry Hogg from “Days of Thunder” should get an assist.
He hadn’t even come into the world yet in the ’70s when the first test tube baby was born, when CAT scans were invented.
Imagine if your favorite burger joint increased prices every few years to pay more to their managers, while offering you thinner cuts, less toppings and generally bad burgers. Would you keep going back?
When it plays like this, scoring in transition, defending with size and length and purpose in the half court, making open shots out of set plays, forcing turnovers, having its way at both ends over 40 minutes, Arizona offers a basketball team that is nearly impossible to beat.
The Nevada Transportation Authority is gearing for one of those “only in Nevada” moments as it works through a revised regulation that would define rolling ultra-lounges.
Arms waving and legs churning, Arizona is racing back into the Sweet 16.
Virginia has spent the entire season punishing opponents by locking down on them defensively or forcing them to guard their steady-paced offense until deep in the shot clock.
Some volunteers at the new Veterans Affairs Medical Center in North Las Vegas are upset with the VA staff member in charge of volunteer services.
GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval seems a little surprised that he didn’t draw a strong Republican or Democratic opponent as he faces near certain re-election to a second term come Nov. 4, but he said he isn’t taking anything for granted.
Baylor was too much of just about everything for Creighton and Doug McDermott to handle.
The proliferation of marijuana grow houses throughout Las Vegas is a problem that brings violence to the community, according to Metro Lt. Laz Chavez.
Searchers found five more bodies Sunday in the tangled sludge of a massive landslide in rural Washington state, bringing the death toll to at least eight from the wall of debris that swept through a small riverside neighborhood.
The girlfriend of an American aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is writing love letters to him on social media.
Sunday’s Mountain West series finale looked like a strong pitching matchup, and it appeared the game would play out like that when UNLV’s Bryan Bonnell needed only two minutes to work through the first half-inning.
Jordan Adams scored 19 points and UCLA beat Stephen F. Austin 77-60 on Sunday to reach the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2008.
The Obama administration and its opponents are renewing the Supreme Court battle over President Barack Obama’s health care law in a case that pits the religious rights of employers against the rights of women to the birth control of their choice.
Tennessee came to Tobacco Road and turned it into “Raleigh Top.”
DeAndre Kane drove for the game-winning layup with 1.6 seconds left and No. 3 seed Iowa State beat North Carolina 85-83 on Sunday, advancing to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2000.
An adoption raffle for the 25 puppies rescued in a February arson began Sunday morning.
A 24-year-old Donald Snyder told his new wife, Dee, that he would one day be president of a bank. That helped them plan and build a successful marriage and life together, but even he couldn’t have imagined the heights his career would reach in the next four decades. Now 66, he sits as the acting president of UNLV, having paved an oft-heralded executive trail through the corporate and academic world.
Andrea Esteban tried to smile with half her face, crossing her eyes in the process, and her third-grade classmates giggled. Matthew Velez struggled to speak, “Luh, luh, uh, gronk,” and the kids erupted in laughter.
Forty-nine-year-old aquarist and marine biologist Deborah Canestrelli has a job to do. It involves diving into a 50,000-gallon aquarium at the Forum Shops at Caesars and lavishing tender loving care on rays and sharks — hand-feeding them.
There’s an old saying on the Strip: “It ain’t a show without a gaucho.”
The Clark County Medical Society Alliance held its 13th annual Fashion Presentation recently at the Four Seasons. This year’s event will benefit Communities in Schools of Nevada, a leading dropout prevention organization.
George Kovarik of Henderson tried to sign up his daughter for coverage through Nevada Health Link’s website. He said he saw some simple fixes that he believes would go a long way toward boosting enrollment in the state exchange.
You never know who you’ll run into at CinemaCon.
The Clark County Fire Department and Las Vegas Fire and Rescue responded to a high-level fire in southern Las Vegas Sunday.
