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Shawn Marion has had a good NBA career. Not as good as Michael Jordan, but good enough.
The United States wasn’t the only country that fed off the crowd Sunday at the USA Sevens rugby tournament at Sam Boyd Stadium.
I am not certain where most of the defensive coaches for UNLV football the past few years landed, but here’s a guess: On staff with the Guyana rugby team.
Lynda Gallagher was there as a sobbing woman cradled her dead husband and told him how much she loved him, how much she would miss him. She was there when the parents of a teen who died of a drug overdose first tried to deal with their shattered dreams, the promise of what might have been. She also was there recently when a grieving Nevada State College student tried to make sense of the fact that her young roommate died in her sleep. “No one should be alone when tragedy strikes,” said Gallagher, 50, a volunteer with the Trauma Intervention Program of Southern Nevada, better known as TIP. “I guess you might call what we do emotional first aid. Often, you just listen. Other times you help them talk out their feelings. We’re really comforting people, not counseling them.”
The officer who exchanged gunfire with a suspect outside a North Las Vegas apartment complex Saturday night was shot in his badge and suffered only minor injuries, police said Sunday.
Supporters of the fledgling Nevada State College are running scared, trying to deflect rumors the college might be closed to help balance the higher education budget. The state’s only four-year college is feeling like an unwanted stepchild hoping for a fairy godmother.
Political opponents of U.S. Senate candidate Sue Lowden are using her connection to a failed bank to attack her candidacy.