LEFTOVERS: Cal caught up in web of rumors

College basketball fans would be amazed at the amount of gossip and rumors that fly around the Final Four city each year.

Adam Scott’s ‘window of opportunity’ is now

Adam Scott is relishing every part of being Masters champion. The drive up Magnolia Lane. A couple of practice rounds with his dad. Wearing the green jacket. And certainly, the champions dinner Tuesday night.

Small-school Lutz swinging big bat for 51s

Coming out of high school, 51s third baseman Zach Lutz narrowed his college choices to Notre Dame, South Carolina and Alvernia.

EDITORIAL: Strapped North Las Vegas should outsource park maintenance

The city of North Las Vegas needs to find ways to save big money. Its budget deficit for the coming fiscal year is $18 million, and the government’s estimated seven-year shortfall is $152 million. City management can’t attack those numbers with scissors — it needs a chainsaw.

EDITORIAL: Health district layoffs

Speaking of local government cuts: The Southern Nevada Health District soon will lay off 50 to 60 employees.

BOYS TRACK: Austin, Durango win three-team meet

Durango’s Leontre Austin won the 100- and 200-meter dashes on Tuesday to lead the Trailblazers to victory in a home tri-meet with 91 points.

SOFTBALL: Late errors allow Spartans to edge Longhorns

Sarah Murphy scored the winning run on an error with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning Tuesday as Cimarron-Memorial’s softball team rallied past visiting Legacy, 4-3.

Wine of the Week: Belle Ambiance Cabernet Sauvignon

This is part of a new lineup of wines coming from the highly innovative and productive grape-farming and growing Delicato Family Vineyards, which is meant to invoke the Belle Ambiance — meaning beautiful spot — also found among the vineyards of the family.

Small Plates: Al’s Beef and ‘Cooking for Two’

Al’s Beef, a franchised operation of the Chicago original that dates to 1938, opened in January. Its specialty is Italian beef sandwiches, which come in two sizes plus extra-meat options and a beef-sausage combo.

GOLF: Savio leads Gators to Northeast League win

Grayson Savio carded a 6-over-par 78 at Las Vegas National on Tuesday to lead Green Valley’s boys golf team to victory in a Northeast League match.

White House can’t explain its own pay disparity

On a day when President Barack Obama took a bow and proclaimed support for strengthening equal pay laws, his own administration struggled to explain it’s failure to pay women equally with men.

NCAA still has fear, loathing of Las Vegas

The quest to open eyes of NCAA suits about their short-sighted views and mistaken opinions when it comes to staging championship play in Las Vegas doesn’t soon appear to be changing.

Plumlees Take Over

Mason Plumlee’s block of LeBron was great. One analyst thought it was good enough to warrant a whole new award category.

North Las Vegas to welcome medical pot opportunities after all

North Las Vegas plans to hop on the medical marijuana bandwagon after all. A top city official said Tuesday that a town hall meeting to kick-start to create regulations on medical pot dispensaries and growing operations will be held April 22.

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