Take the negative stereotypes you have heard or read or witnessed about a college athlete, put them in a coffee grinder and turn it on. UNLV Rebel Rodelin Anthony doesn’t fit any, right down to the classical music he meditates to minutes before kickoff.
Chris Robinson went 4-for-4, including his second home run of the season, to lead the Iowa Cubs to a 5-4 win over the 51s on Wednesday in a Pacific Coast League game at Des Moines, Iowa.
What was once the Desert Lake Shooting Club in Boulder City is about to be saved from extinction and given a new name. In June, Desert Lake members were notified the facility would close by the end of the month. The reason was never given, only a vague allusion to an unsuccessful lease negotiation.
• LAKE MEAD — High winds made conditions difficult last week, but cooler weather provided good fishing last weekend. Anglers jigging or using top-water baits reported fair success for stripers in the Vegas Wash area. Cut anchovies are catching some stripers and cats on the bottom. Hemenway and the beach area have been slow. One boating angler reported success with anchovies near the tires at Hemenway in the evening.
ELY — When his home burned down before he entered high school, Mark Barefield went to live with another family for three years.
Each day from the practice field at Broadbent Park, if UNLV’s football players have a moment, they can look up and see the steam-engine train roll by in the distance. Riding the train is one of the attractions, but the players know they will never have time to jump on board. They practice each day, going twice every other day. The rest of the time is spent in meetings studying previous practices and planning for the next one.
Attention: The following is an actual sports news item. It is not intended to be funny, though you might find it laughable.
Paul Rodelo’s family remembered him as an affectionate son and a gregarious man who liked to wear a cowboy hat and boots when he listened to traditional Mexican music. Rodelo died Tuesday night at University Medical Center, the second fatality resulting from a Monday shooting on a residential street near Decatur Boulevard and Sahara Avenue.
A Las Vegas police helicopter with two crew members on board made an emergency landing near Spring Mountain and Lindell roads Wednesday after the engine failed, a police lieutenant at the scene said.
Jurors start deliberating today whether business owner Robert Kahre and several others willfully broke federal law by taking their pay in gold and silver coins, but reporting only the coins’ modest face value on their income tax returns.
If a Las Vegas physician’s idea continues to spread, doctors from around the country will march on Washington Oct. 1 to draw attention to their views on health care reform. “It is time that we stand up for ourselves,” obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Richard Chudacoff wrote in a June letter to a medical Web site that has become the catalyzing manifesto for an event now being planned as the Million Med March.
RENO — Wait times have just about doubled at the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Reno since budget cuts forced the closure of three satellite offices in the region.
An 18-year-old Henderson teenager who went missing a week ago in northern Utah’s Green Canyon has not yet been found, authorities said Wednesday.
Days after Giovanna Simmons, a mother of two, died from a gunshot wound suffered during the 2006 robbery of her apartment, Abell Dieudonne attended her funeral in Los Angeles.
A story in Wednesday’s Review-Journal incorrectly reported how Gov. Jim Gibbons voted on an issue before the sate Board of Examiners on Tuesday. Gibbons voted to pay $10 million to a Washington, D.C., law firm to fight federal attempts to place nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, despite questioning the need for the expenditure during the meeting.
Helen Kiros, 75, is standing in the eye of the health care debate storm.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid resembles a sharpshooter at the carnival, the guy who swaggers up and rat-a-tat-tat, he fires, and a line of ducks falls over. His girl is impressed and receives yet another stuffed teddy bear.
A federal judge decided Wednesday not to remove himself from a case involving a subpoena seeking information about people who posted online comments on a Review-Journal story about a criminal tax trial.
Picture a scenario that has Michael Jackson‘s Neverland Ranch transplanted in Las Vegas, along with the creation of a Las Vegas-set Cirque du Soleil-style show featuring his music.
Following talks with state health officials, Nevada Superintendent of Public Instruction Keith Rheault said he understood the mass inoculation of students against the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, “would be pretty wide scale, free of charge and possibly implemented at each school.” The inoculations also would be voluntary.
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, the Fremont Street Experience is hosting its own three days of music and peace Friday through Sunday.
