The 51s started fast this season, winning six of their first seven games, but they’ve since come to a screeching halt after dropping three of four games to three-time defending division champion Sacramento at Cashman Field.
A knee injury sidelined Matt Shaw two years ago, but it was a physical setback he was able to overcome. A more costly mental error has brought a sudden end to his UNLV basketball career.
■ A headline in the Business section of Tuesday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal was incorrect. Harrah’s Entertainment had no comment on the reported sale of the Rio.
Boulder City softball coach Bruce Reid knows his team’s toughest tests this season won’t come against Class 3A Southern League opponents.
Matt Shaw has said he can one day picture himself on the big screen as a comedic actor, that he is always watching movies and reciting lines from them.
Late in August, as Floyd Mayweather Jr. was preparing to return to boxing, he found himself dealing with an incident outside the ring.
Some high school students pour most of their time and effort into sports, piling up awards for their athletic talents.
Patty Aspinwall, who contracted hepatitis after a 2007 procedure at Dr. Dipak Desai’s Shadow Lane clinic, has made her way to the first civil trial stemming from the Las Vegas hepatitis C outbreak. She listened Tuesday as Henry Chanin explained to a Clark County jury how “deeply anxious” he felt about the possibility of infecting his wife and others with hepatitis.
Jamie Oliver used fresh fruit and vegetables to try to win the hearts, or at least the fatty arteries, of a West Virginia city. Rachael Ray is working to reform school lunch. And Paula Deen, queen of Southern-fried goodness, recently taught an auditorium of kids how to cook and eat healthy.
Forte European Tapas Bar & Bistro, 4180 S. Rainbow Blvd., gives the tapas treatment to the Bulgarian tastes boiling in the childhood homes of owner Nina Manchev — first in her homeland, then in Chicago and finally the Las Vegas Valley.
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