The 51s, who have sent 10 players to the Mets who started the season in Las Vegas, have won six straight games to take an eight-game lead over El Paso. They ended the first half of the season with a 5-4 win over Salt Lake on Saturday to raise their record to 53-38.
Reporters figured Floyd Mayweather Jr. was kidding a few weeks ago when he dropped the names of Andre Berto and Karim Mayfield as potential opponents for his Sept. 12 fight at the MGM Grand Garden. But Berto and Mayfield didn’t laugh at the suggestion.
Las Vegas came out strong in a poll of Mountain West media members who cover the league, but the results showed UNLV’s football program has some work to do. The Review-Journal polled one media member at each of the 12 conference schools to rank the top five choices in 10 categories.
Jim Bechtel won the 1993 World Series of Poker Main Event against a field of 220 players; there were three times that many players remaining when play started Saturday afternoon. The 63-year-old was unofficially in the top 50 with approximately 950,000 chips at the 10:30 p.m. break.
Rookie forward Kevon Looney realizes being a first-round pick who will get guaranteed money doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll be a factor with the Golden State Warriors in the 2015-16 season. Looney is getting his first taste of professional competition in the NBA Summer League.
New Orleans Pelicans guard Seth Curry had a big day offensively for the second straight game. He scored 25 points in New Orleans’ 90-86 victory over Dallas on Saturday after pouring in 30 in Friday’s win over Milwaukee.
MGM Resorts sports book director Jay Rood said the UFC interim featherweight title fight between Conor McGregor and Chad Mendes on Saturday drew strong two-way action. McGregor opened at minus-130 and closed as a 2-1 favorite.
Gov. Brian Sandoval, the state Legislature, the Board of Regents and the Nevada System of Higher Education deserve to be commended for working to improve education in Nevada during the 2015 legislative session.
The more education the better, for Nevadans and Nevada’s economy. And unlike a natural disaster or a global financial crisis, education isn’t beyond Nevada’s control. It’s something we can do something about.
We need a pick-me-up. Amid the vandalizing of Palmyra, the imminent extinction of the northern white rhino, the disarray threatening Europe’s most ambitious attempt ever at peaceful unification — amid plague and pestilence and, by God, in the middle of Shark Week — where can humanity turn for uplift?
