Micah Roberts, a former race and sports book director who has been setting NASCAR odds since 1995, analyzes the field for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Axalta 400 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa.
Deontay Wilder, the World Boxing Council heavyweight champion, will make the first defense of his title Saturday against Eric Molina on a Showtime-televised card in Birmingham, Ala. “I’m excited about coming to my home state of Alabama,” Wilder said.
The decision by the parties associated with the Army-Navy game to stick to their date a week after the other schools have finished playing hurts college football. Navy should switch or be ineligible for a New Year’s Six game.
The U.S. soccer team is favored to win the Women’s World Cup, which began Saturday in Canada. The Americans are around plus-200. Germany, champions in 2003 and 2007, is the second choice at plus-300. Defending champion Japan, France and Brazil are around 7-1.
That the NFL continues to brazenly champion an anti-gambling stance when it knows a profit margin that handsomely lines the pockets of owners is directly linked to those who wager on games and play fantasy football is a disingenuous ruse that has grown boring.
I rarely do follow-up columns. I’m averaging one every 10 years. And while my last such exercise resulted in a written apology from the White House (for accusing me of making up facts over its removal of Churchill’s bust), today’s is not a complaint.
Nevada as a trailblazer in education? Underachieving, Third-World Nevada setting a new national standard in school policy that other states are destined to follow?
It wasn’t quite “Call me Ishmael,” but “Call me Caitlyn” made a whale of a splash.
For years and years, the Nevada Legislature never failed to disappoint the citizens it serves. And so, being conditioned to expect the worst from the state’s most powerful body, it’s shocking to look at the work of the just-completed 2015 session and say … “Bravo.”
We’re accustomed to annoying glitches in PCs. But the past few years have shown that Macs, iPads and iPhones have them too. So far in 2015, five major flaws have affected Apple products.
A Southern California dog found this week with a shoelace embedded around her neck is a victim of major neglect and cruelty.
A Utah woman was killed after a single-vehicle rollover on Interstate 15 near Mesquite on Saturday, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
Joseph Wilcox was 31 when he was gunned down in an east valley Wal-Mart last summer while trying to stop a shooting spree. His mother Debra Wilcox is determined to make sure he isn’t forgotten.
Bail bondsmen shot a man they were trying to capture and the Las Vegas Fire Department removed homemade explosives from an east valley home where the shooting happened Saturday, Las Vegas police said.
Legislation that would have privatized Medicaid services for the elderly, the blind and the disabled in Nevada died in the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, but the concept survived after being grafted onto a different bill. Advocates who raised concerns about defunct Assembly Bill 310 now say they are worried about SB514.
Two men were hospitalized after a shooting near the Linq on Saturday , according to Las Vegas police.
A trash truck blaze shut down northbound Buffalo drive at Lake Mead Saturday afternoon, the Las Vegas Fire Department said.
Family members of a pregnant North Carolina woman who went missing Tuesday are looking for answers.
American Pharoah entered the pantheon of U.S. thoroughbred racing’s all-time greats by winning the Belmont Stakes on Saturday to become the first horse to capture the coveted Triple Crown in nearly four decades.
Fans of the Barbie dolls will eventually pick from 23 Barbies with different eye colors, hair colors, skin tones, face shapes and hair styles, according to Mattel.
Two convicted murderers escaped from a maximum security prison in upstate New York by cutting through a steel wall and following a series of tunnels until they emerged from a manhole outside the prison walls, New York authorities said Saturday afternoon.
John Calipari and Dan Patrick have a long, good-natured history of busting each other’s chops. But tensions ran high between them Thursday on “The Dan Patrick Show” after the host asked the Kentucky coach if he would have been better off using a short rotation instead of a platoon in the NCAA Tournament.
The kiss, at the end, said it all. While delivering a moving lament for Beau Biden on Saturday, Obama offered a remarkable statement of love and gratitude for another man: the father of Delaware’s favorite son and his own vice president, Joe Biden, whose life is again stricken by personal tragedy.
“Kung Fury” is a fast-paced 31-minute film that begins with the main character Kung Fury killing a sentient arcade game machine that runs amok, followed by Adolf Hitler shooting people through the phone, and a hilarious tech nerd devising a time machine after a mere five-second pause.
The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada is offering a 14-week sex education program in which students discuss such topics as sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, date rape, sexual orientation, gender identity, abstinence and other questions students have on the subject.
From higher cigarette taxes, entertainment levies and the state’s first gross receipts tax on commerce, Nevada businesses and residents will pay more under tax measures approved by the 2015 Legislature to fund Gov. Brian Sandoval’s $7.3 billion general fund budget.
Matt and Amy Roloff, stars of TLC reality series “Little People, Big World,” are filing for divorce after 27 years of marriage.
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