It was just after 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at Clifford J. Lawrence Junior High School. Kyle T. Busch, originally of Las Vegas, now of a compound on a lake near Charlotte, N.C. — aka “your 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion” — was having his ear bent by a school district trustee in the hallway outside Stacy Schaumburg’s STEM classroom.
Tuesday was Las Vegas Bowl executive director John Saccenti’s 40th birthday, a milestone day that he didn’t have much time to celebrate.
Plausible scenario: A one-loss North Carolina football team beats No. 1 Clemson in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship on Saturday, takes out the side that the College Football Playoff committee has for weeks deemed the nation’s best, and still isn’t chosen for a semifinal game when the final rankings are released Sunday.
Las Vegas now has two Mike Tyson’s — the actual Mike Tyson, who lives in Las Vegas, and a wax figure Mike Tyson, that now resides at The Venetian.
UNLV is working hard to recruit a quarterback, with offers out to at least two junior college QBs and one in high school.
With the signature octagon behind them, Ultimate Fighting Championship officials moved dirt Tuesday morning to begin construction of a 180,000-square-foot global headquarters along the 215 Beltway in the southwest valley.
A year ago, Tristan Clark could be seen playing basketball at Judson High, a public school located 15 miles northeast of San Antonio.
UNLV sophomore wide receiver Devonte Boyd was named on Tuesday second-team All-Mountain West football.
Dave Roberts was formally introduced as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday.
Josh McCown will miss the rest of the season with a broken collarbone, Cleveland Browns head coach Mike Pettine said Tuesday.
