Las Vegan Jay Beasley is coming off back-to-back top-five finishes in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. “I felt like I needed to step it up this year and focus on what I’m doing, learn more and be more aggressive behind the wheel,” he said.
Las Vegan Jessie Vargas will face his toughest opponent to date in former world champion Timothy Bradley on Saturday on an HBO-televised card. Vargas risks suffering the first blemish to an undefeated record and perhaps falling from grace. But if he wins, it opens up all sorts of big-money possibilities.
Mike Gorodinsky won the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship tournament at the World Series of Poker early Friday at the Rio Convention Center. He took home $1,270,086 and the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy, named in honor of the late poker pro from Las Vegas.
Things aren’t expected to go well for new UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez when he leads the Rebels out on the field at Sam Boyd Stadium for the first time, at least according to the bookmakers.
Mike Gorodinsky won the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship tournament at the World Series of Poker early Friday at the Rio Convention Center.
The charity event at Jose Canseco’s home involved Jamie Gold in heads-up hold ’em vs. one of his admirers, a University of Montana graduate named Bradley Anderson. The former WSOP kingpin needed roughly 10 minutes to take the kid’s comped $1,000 buy-in.
Authorities have tentatively identified all nine bodies from a sightseeing plane that crashed into a cliff in southeast Alaska.
If we really have reached a time when it’s politically wrong to discuss what should be considered politically correct, the only progress we make is sensitizing our society to the point that freedom of speech and expression doesn’t exist without fear of retribution. And that’s a sad truth.
The UNLV-Michigan game on Sept. 19 was one of 165 games on the board Friday when the Golden Nugget opened college football lines on the season’s most intriguing matchups. The Wolverines opened as 33-point favorites over the rebuilding Rebels.
We’ve all been there — peeling away the wrapping paper, seeing a gift we totally didn’t want, and putting on our best forced smile for the sake of the giver. But what if you’re the Queen and you’re given a portrait you’re struggling to appreciate?
J.K. Rowling has confirmed that the Harry Potter play, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” will open in London next year.
One of our favorite bands, Sunny Day Real Estate, is named after this opportunistic notion that if someone could figure out a way to make a profit from peddling cloudless days, they would.
Diego Magdaleno of Las Vegas dominated Jose Gonzalez on Friday, winning by technical knockout in the seventh round to capture the vacant World Boxing Organization international lightweight title in Hidalgo, Texas.
Kirk Nieuwenhuis’ three-run homer in the first inning highlighted the 51s’ early uprising Friday in their 6-3 victory over the Sacramento River Cats at Cashman Field. Las Vegas scored all of its runs in the first two innings off 14-year major league veteran Jake Peavy, who is on a rehabilitation assignment for the San Francisco Giants.
When you come to Las Vegas don’t mess with Elvis, especially if the Presley poser is a Vietnam veteran.
There were three significant trades made just hours before the start of the 2015 NHL draft, but at least the first two picks — Connor McDavid to the Edmonton Oilers and Jack Eichel to the Buffalo Sabres — went as expected on Friday night at the BB&T Center.
The USA beat China 1-0 to move on to play Germany in the Women’s World Cup semifinals.
Three former members of the Florida A&M University marching band were sentenced on Friday to 10 years of supervised probation for the 2011 beating death of a drum major during a brutal hazing ritual.
Marlon Wayans is glad “I Can Do That” is doing well on TV, because his big family needs money. “The Wayans family is like a charity: Feed the Hungry Wayans.”
There appears to be an easy way for prospective NBA Draft picks to determine which team will select them. Simply rip a certain NBA squad in college and — voila! — that team will eventually become that player’s future employer.
Chicago fans didn’t blink at the sight of three men decked out in big league uniforms walking the streets of Wrigleyville. After all, they’ve been watching men in Cubs uniforms impersonating big-league ballplayers at Wrigley Field for more than 100 years.
Dozens of Clark County Detention Center inmates serving time for minor offenses appeared before a judge Friday for an opportunity to have their sentences suspended, County Commissioner Steve Sisolak said.
Las Vegas set a record for the warmest low June temperature on Friday at 91 degrees, National Weather Service said.
Little drones flying overhead are one thing. A much larger, unmanned, four-seater airplane is another.
A person suffered head injuries in a northwest valley assault Friday afternoon, police said. It was originally reported that the victim was shot, but that turned out to be false.
Mary Baranovich, who married her partner, Beverly Sevcik, in January when gay marriage was legalized in Nevada, was awakened Friday to the news that the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in support of same-sex marriage.
Chris Wood, a former UNLV star who was bypassed Thursday in the two-round NBA Draft, agreed to a free-agent deal with the Houston Rockets, according to multiple sources. The Rockets will participate in the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas in July.
The parents of a boy with autism took aim at the Clark County School District and a former teacher’s aide Friday with a second lawsuit involving allegations of abuse. The suit says former aide Lachelle James abused the boy nearly every day for months.
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