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.
