Carl Frampton won every round en route to a 10-round unanimous decision over Tyler McCreary on Saturday night at the Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
Sam Gordon
Former Columnist/Enterprise
Greg Suckow, a fan known in Iowa as “Hawkeye Elvis,” made the trip to watch his beloved Iowa Hawkeyes play in the Continental Tires Las Vegas Invitational.
Carl Frampton is eager to prove he’s still one of the world’s best featherweights. He will fight Saturday in Las Vegas almost four months after injuring his left hand.
Centennial opens the season again as the best girls basketball team in Nevada and ranked No. 23 nationally by USA Today. The Bulldogs have won five straight state titles.
Eight-time defending Class 4A state basketball champion Bishop Gorman, which finished last season in New York at the GEICO Nationals, opens the season again as the team to beat in Nevada.
Contesting Division I basketball games at a high school is an abnormality. But the event’s senior director, Jon Albaugh, said he sought to provide the mid-major participants a more intimate experience at a smaller venue.
Banks, a 6-foot-2-inch point guard, returned to his hometown to play in the MGM Resorts Main Event, and started for the Cowboys on Sunday in a 56-41 loss to No. 23 Colorado.
Deontay Wilder retained his WBC heavyweight title Saturday night with a seventh-round knockout of Luis Ortiz at the MGM Grand Garden.
UNLV isn’t the only college basketball team playing in Las Vegas this week. The city is welcoming several events across a plethora of venues before and after Thanksgiving.
Undefeated WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder fights Luis Ortiz on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden, his first bout in Las Vegas since he won the title Jan. 17, 2015.
Luis Ortiz defected to the U.S. in 2009 from his native Cuba, hoping a career in pro boxing could provide better care for his daughter, Lismercedes, who has a rare skin disease.
Bray completed the 26.2-mile course Sunday in 3 hours, 13 minutes to clinch her first marathon victory in three tries.
Thomas Adamietz intermittently completed the full body exercise throughout his trek down the Las Vegas Strip to raise money for cancer research.
Puzey won the 26.2-mile race for the second consecutive year with a time of 2 hours, 28 minutes, 4 seconds.
More than 35,000 are registered to run in the marathon or half-marathon. They’ll start their journey at 4:30 p.m. Sunday and conclude it under the neon lights on the Las Vegas Strip.