When word came Friday that welterweight superstars Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley would fight May 1 at the MGM Grand, it was the kind of news that boxing in Las Vegas needed after a disappointing start to 2010.
PROVO, Utah — Jimmer Fredette scored 36 points, 23 in the second half, and No. 12 Brigham Young built a big lead before holding off Utah 82-69 Saturday for its sixth victory in the last seven meetings between the longtime rivals.
Eleven players are consistently seeing the floor for UNLV, and such a deep rotation is rare for a college basketball team three months into the season. It was coach Lon Kruger’s plan all along, and he’s sticking to it.
In November there were questions about which one of the 11 would be the Rebels’ leader. On and off the floor, junior guard Tre’Von Willis has provided the answer.
RENO — Luke Babbitt scored 20 points, and UNR held off Hawaii 66-60 in a Western Athletic Conference game Saturday.
College of Southern Nevada swept Yavapai (Ariz.) College in a baseball doubleheader Saturday, winning 7-1 and 5-1 in the Coyote Border Battle tournament at Morse Stadium.
After 26 years, it appears they are trying to run out Chris Ault as football coach at UNR. The Little General. One of three active coaches in the College Football Hall of Fame. Being run out.
Landon Littlefield became the all-time scoring leader for Lake Mead’s boys basketball team this month.
And if the senior guard continues filling it up like he did Saturday, it will be a long time before anyone catches him.
Littlefield poured in 38 points as the Eagles rolled to an 81-63 home win over Trinity in the Class 1A Southern League.
New UNLV football coach Bobby Hauck is bringing a new brand of discipline and planning to the Rebels after seven successful years at Montana, who played in three national title games in the former I-AA. Anything close to that kind of success in the Mountain West Conference might make Rebels fans happy. But the very private Hauck is much more than an accomplished football coach.
A single-engine Piper Cherokee airplane struck a car Saturday afternoon on a dirt road in Nye County, but authorities said both the pilot and the car’s driver escaped serious injury.
SO, LAS VEGAS MAYOR OSCAR GOODMAN ISN’T RUNNING for governor. Since he’s a betting man, who would he put money on now that he won’t be in the race?
Miss Virginia Caressa Cameron was crowned Miss America 2010 during a two-hour event Saturday night at Planet Hollywood.
On any given Sunday, you can belly up to a Las Vegas bar and down a few shots of Jägermeister. Or stuff 500 dollar bills into the G-string of a stripper. Or place a $1,000 bet on the Saints to win the Super Bowl.
But what if you’re longing to test drive that powerful 2010 Cadillac CTS or Dodge Ram or to sit in a new Chrysler and feel that smooth Corinthian leather? (I know Chrysler hasn’t built the Cordobas with the mythical “fine Corinthian leather” since the ’80s, but Ricardo Montalban made it sound so luxurious that the image sticks with me.)
Anyway, you can’t get into that new car.
In Nevada’s higher education circles, Jan. 22 is the dividing line. Before that date, higher ed leaders thought the state’s colleges and universities would be forced to endure more cuts, perhaps 6, 8 or 10 percent. Those cuts would be on top of 12.5 percent cuts last year and smaller cuts the year before.
In the Green Valley High School performance of the musical “Rent,” the exotic dancer Mimi flirts with a rock guitarist by asking him if she has the best ass “below 14th Street,” referring to the gritty neighborhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
They’ve grown older without growing up. On their latest disc, “Sorry For Partyin’,” the dudes in power pop cut-ups Bowling For Soup don’t sound very repentant at all.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted last week to raise the limit on how much the government can borrow to keep itself running, a move that while necessary has become highly political.
As any experienced bloom chaser will tell you, it takes more than one storm system — even a soaker of record proportions — to grow wildflowers in the hottest, driest place in North America. Experts at Death Valley National Park are predicting only a moderate bloom this year, despite the storm front that delivered almost a year’s worth of rain to the park’s Furnace Creek weather station several weeks ago.
As a columnist, I often search for the right metaphor. Only rarely does one scurry across a desk leaving pellets in its path. Today, I can say with certainty I smell a rat inside the state Division of Welfare and Supportive Services Professional Development Center at 701 N. Rancho Drive. Not only do employees in the building, once home to a Safeway, smell rats: They see them, hear them, and occasionally clean up after them.
For the Metropolitan Police Department, 2009 closed as its deadliest year. Four officers died, including three in crashes while driving department vehicles. The fatal crashes prompted headlines, a public outcry and a revamp of the agency’s driving policies. Yet beneath all that attention, the department’s safety record on the road has been steadily improving in recent years, according to agency figures on crashes involving its vehicles.
Legendary entertainer Jerry Lewis, on the brink of returning to Broadway in his energetic 80s, is nutty over his latest project.
Palo Verde High School won the Nevada Regional Science Bowl on Saturday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and earned a trip to Washington, D.C., in late April for the competition’s final.
The process has already dragged on for decades. Now the Southern Nevada Water Authority could be forced to start all over again as it seeks state permits to supply Las Vegas with groundwater piped from across rural Nevada.
When Green Valley High School announced the student production of two controversial plays last year, a number of parents instantly swarmed the decisions. “The Laramie Project” and the musical “Rent” are centered on the issues of HIV, violence, drug abuse and homosexuality. Declaring these topics too mature for high school, the protesters sent the case to court.
Charlie Mitchener, the Las Vegas business owner who was handcuffed and disarmed after presenting a concealed weapons permit along with his driver’s license to a police officer responding to a burglary call at his place of business Jan. 3, has provided me with his Jan. 19 follow-up letter to Metro.
I’m well into my 70s now. I’ve been in and out of the ranching business all my life. I’ve run a lot of horses, trapped coyotes and bobcats, cut post over a good portion of the state of Nevada. And I tell you, I have never been so disgusted.
As recent events have clearly amplified, the average American’s grasp of the content and purpose of the U.S. Constitution is woefully inadequate and too often inaccurate.
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