The Mountain West has a new look, but the same sort of outcome is expected.
Debate raged as the Buffalo Bills headed into training camp over who would win the starting quarterback job for the season opener.
He hasn’t fought more than once a year since 2007. But as he prepares to fight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez just four months after his last bout, Floyd Mayweather Jr. can’t wait for the bell to ring.
Matthew Larson has played in two state championship games and yet to taste victory.
Joe Delgado knows expectations will be through the roof for the Mojave football team in 2014.
There are few givens in high school sports. But there was a time not long ago when you could all but guarantee two things at the start of the football season: Las Vegas High would win the Northeast League and play in the Sunrise Region title game.
High school football coaches like to say that success breeds success. Centennial’s Leon Evans will find out if that’s true this fall.
You find the evidence on Page 81 of the UNLV football media guide, where tentative nonconference schedules for the Rebels are listed through 2017. There are several TBAs. If he has enough success this season to remain UNLV’s coach, Bobby Hauck has plans for them.
■ LAKE MEAD — Again this week, striper action has been more about fish numbers than size. Most fish are in the 2½-pound range. The action has been mostly top-water, with anglers using a Jumping Minnow or Zara Spook. Largemouth and smallmouth bass have been taking top-water lures and plugs. Anglers have been working the backs of coves and rocky points.
A meeting between the staff of the state medical board and executives with the pharmaceutical company that makes the pain management drug OxyContin has produced the names of 29 Nevada licensed professionals in the firm’s Abuse & Diversion Detection program.
The chairman of Caesars Entertainment Corp. and the former chief of the American Gaming Association head a four-person list of inductees into the Gaming Hall of Fame for 2013.
Drinking a can of soda looks very much like drinking a can of beer. But it’s not. Likewise, puffing on an electronic cigarette to sate one’s urge for nicotine looks very much like smoking a real cigarette. But it’s not.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: Sky Sox, Mike McClendon (7-8), 51s, Daryl Thompson (2-0); 51s, Justin Hampson (6-3), Sky Sox, Cory Riordan (4-5)
Follow the link for preseason capsule information on Division I Sunrise Region football teams.
Clark County District Attorney Steven Wolfson took some serious heat from a few black residents at a Wednesday night forum commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Follow the link for preseason capsule information on Division I Sunset Region football teams.
There have been 26 college football seasons since I first rolled across Hoover Dam. There have been three winning ones. It could be argued the Rebels’ run of futility over the past quarter-century is unsurpassed.
We’re hours away from the start of UNLV’s 2013 football campaign. These 5 games — including Thursday night’s opener — could make or break the season for the Rebels and Coach Bobby Hauck.
Follow the link for preseason capsule information on Division III and IV football teams.
When the first officer arrived at the scene of a domestic violence call that would spark a 24-hour standoff with SWAT in the southeast valley late Monday night, he was met by a 10-year-old girl carrying a pistol and a shotgun-wielding man asking for help.
Follow the link for Shadow Ridge’s preseason capsule information.
A 51-year-old man was indicted Wednesday in connection with the theft of $147,000 in diamonds and other items from a Las Vegas jewelry store.
The remodeled SLS Las Vegas is roughly a year away from opening, but the $400 million Strip resort’s pieces are beginning to fall into place.
A 13-year-old student was sexually assaulted at knife point after being taken from Woodbury Middle School early Wednesday morning, according to Las Vegas police.
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Vegas Loop tunnel reaches off-Strip resort
Holzhauer doesn’t go all-in, reflects on loss in ‘Jeopardy! Masters’
Restaurant closing after more than a decade on Las Vegas Strip
North Strip casino taking unlimited free parking away
‘I just hope she’s in a safe place’: More than 40 children missing in Nevada