Under ordinary circumstances, New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin always puts a well-prepared team on the field. With an extra week to break down and study an opponent, he’s that much sharper.
The talk of the NFL this past weekend wasn’t the Cincinnati Bengals’ upset of the Baltimore Ravens. Or Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb returning from a season-opening rib injury to throw three touchdown passes in a rout of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Or even the ongoing ineptitude of the Oakland Raiders.
Coming off one of the biggest wins in school history, Legacy already faced the difficult challenge of avoiding a letdown in a tough road game at Cheyenne on Friday.
Living up to their advance billing as a squad built on speed, the Wranglers started fast Friday night in their season opener at the Orleans Arena.
Expectation vs. reality. It’s a common encounter for UNLV basketball this time of year, for all college teams the second week of October.
It appeared to be a big play for Canyon Springs’ special teams.
UNLV had good — or at least explainable — reasons for getting away from its running game the past two weeks.
Who knows if anything can stop Durango junior tennis player Alexis Garrett. An exhausting all-night study session couldn’t do it, nor could a left shoulder so injured that she couldn’t swing overhead.
SAN DIEGO — Coach Brady Hoke isn’t kidding when he says his San Diego State Aztecs face a big challenge against No. 18 Brigham Young today.
Ohio State’s 31-13 victory over Big Ten rival Wisconsin last week was a classic example of a misleading final score.
CONCORD, N.C. — Who needs a flu shot when you can take the checkered flag instead?
Derrick Jasper, Anthony Marshall and an impressive group of newcomers debuted Friday as UNLV opened the basketball season with a late-night practice at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Starting with Friday’s game against visiting Silverado, Liberty’s football team embarked on a three-step program to reach the playoffs for the first time.
Two guys who used to wear UNLV scarlet got together and painted the leaderboard red Friday at TPC Summerlin.
Because of the economic downturn, more companies are competing for local government contracts and in some cases are being more aggressive when the bidding doesn’t go their way.
O.J. Simpson’s convicted co-defendant got a fair trial and wasn’t a victim of “spillover prejudice” as he alleges in his appeal, a prosecutor told the state Supreme Court on Friday.
In stories published in Thursday’s and Friday’s Review-Journal about New York City terror suspect Najibullah Zazi, The Associated Press erroneously reported that U.S. intelligence officials knew of indirect contact between Zazi and a man believed to be the head of al-Qaida in Afghanistan — Mustafa Abu al-Yazid.
There is a machine in an engineering lab at UNLV that will print out a wrench if you ask it to. Plug in some computer wizardry and, poof, you’ve got a wrench. Not a picture of a wrench, mind you, but an actual wrench. … That piece of high-tech equipment is in the lab for undergraduates, newly christened Thursday night in a dedication ceremony for the Mendenhall Innovation and Design Laboratory. University officials say it is one of the few engineering labs like it.
After a long, hot summer in which the Clark County School Board often faced harsh criticism and charges of racism, the board is considering a change in its policy on public speakers to prohibit language that is “slanderous, offensive, inflammatory (or) irrational.”
Las Vegas police released a sketch Friday of a man who they suspect severely beat up a 65-year-old woman earlier this week and stole her car.
A North Las Vegas police officer arrested in July on six counts of felony credit card fraud no longer is an employee with the department.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A racer from Rome was killed Friday during competition at the International Jet Sports Boating Association World Finals on Lake Havasu.
