UNLV is tied for second in the Mountain West, four games back of New Mexico in the loss column, and what felt like a certainty a few weeks ago when it came to NCAA at-large chances for the Rebels isn’t all that assured now. Which in no way has their head coach worried.
On the cover of the new book Jerry Reuss finally got around to writing is a picture of him standing on the pitcher’s mound looking mostly irritated, and of Tommy Lasorda, looking mostly blurry, in the foreground. Blurry Lasorda, it can be assumed, is about to remove irritated Reuss from the ballgame.
It has become a familiar story for UNLV’s men’s golf team at this time of the year. It’s time for the Mountain West championships, which means the NCAA Regionals are just around the corner. It also brings up the question why the Rebels, who have had very talented teams over the years, have failed to capture the title.
If the U.S. Bureau of Land Management were a business, its Nevada executives would be fired. They’ve managed to lose money on vast assets capable of generating massive amounts of wealth.
The Cleveland Browns aren’t accustomed to winning. So anything that’s remotely positive connected to the franchise is going to get the team’s attention. In this case, it was quarterback Brian Hoyer winning a cooking contest last weekend.
Perhaps no fighter in the Ultimate Fighting Championship has so quietly put together as good a resume as light heavyweight Phil Davis. He has clearly decided the time has come to make some noise.
There is something exciting about slipping up to the edge of a small mountain stream with a fishing rod in your hand, especially if the stream is one you have never fished before. It is like a blank canvas to an artist who has yet to determine where to begin working with his first brush stroke.
Homeowners in a Southern Nevada community say their floors are shaking and their walls cracking as movement in a former landfill tears them apart.
UNLV got a glimpse Wednesday of the intersection of ecology and sexology with a guided walking tour of campus ecosexy spots. The event included orientation to teach about 15 participants 25 ways to make love to the planet.
Toure Cook and Omar Rubio each won two events Wednesday to help Del Sol’s boys track team edge host Foothill, 86-81.
Brien Campbell hit a two-run single with two outs in the top of the seventh inning Wednesday to lift Clark’s baseball team to a 4-3 victory over host Western.
Hannah Bunker, Alyse Vanek and Rakayla Tyler each won two individual events Wednesday to help Foothill’s girls track team to a win in a home triangular meet.
Four batters into Wednesday’s game at Liberty, Foothill softball coach Tom Mayes already had an inkling that it might be a good day for his Falcons.
Henderson celebrates two anniversaries — the city’s and its weekly farmers’ market — with Saturday’s Heritage Parade and Festival, themed “Let’s Go to the Market.”
Singer Chris Brown’s trial on an assault charge was put on hold for months Wednesday after prosecutors declined to grant immunity to his bodyguard, who would be a key witness in the case.
Since a father and son took their 10 flipping, twirling dogs from the center ring of a circus to the stage of a reality show, where they won the TV competition “America’s Got Talent,” people pack their performances at large venues and they have been tapped to star in short films bankrolled by Ellen DeGeneres’ pet food company, one of which is set to screen at the Cannes Film Festival.
A remake of the French movie “District B13,” it’s basically “The Fast & The Furious” but with monkey-flipping humans instead of cars.
Bradley Keyer shot 1-under-par 35 at Anthem on Wednesday to help Coronado’s boys golf team to a 193-213 win over Green Valley.
There are music genres that, for whatever reason, seem to mesh particularly well with specific environments.
Sitting against the back wall of the Naked City Audio control room on a recent Friday afternoon, Jon Gamboa speaks in the archly dramatic tones of a movie trailer voice-over.
Auston Farrington had 14 kills on Wednesday to lead Basic’s boys volleyball team to a 25-27, 25-20, 25-18, 22-25, 15-6 road win over Liberty.
Of all the ways to measure the health of Keola Paragas’ pitching arm, the number six does it best. As in, six starts this season for the Green Valley baseball team.
The words “cello rock band” may sound like an oxymoron, but that isn’t stopping the members of Break of Reality.
Alexa Snyder’s two-out double in the top of the seventh inning Wednesday plated the winning run as Cimarron-Memorial’s softball team collected a 3-2 victory at Desert Oasis.
Four batters into Wednesday’s game at Liberty, Foothill softball coach Tom Mayes already had an inkling that it might be a good day for his Falcons.
Each year, there is only one guy crazy enough to try to calculate the average Las Vegas show price, but a bunch of people to tell him why he shouldn’t bother. And no, the first guy ain’t me.
If you had your sights set on breaking the BASE jumping World Record, you’ll have to go higher then 2,717 feet now.
Part-time Southern Nevada resident Joseph Baldi Acosta melds his experiences living in Brazil, Jordan and Ecuador with his love for America in “My Life in Metaphor” an book of reflective poetry on “life, death, and everything in between.”
