Brady Whipple and Taylor Poulsen have been best friends since preschool and playing football together since the second grade.
Several NFL teams with weak resumes still have an opportunity to chart a path to the playoffs and make some noise.
The NFL season is full of ebbs and flows. Teams get hot, teams get cold, and it’s up to handicappers to figure out when to ride the winning or losing streaks and when to anticipate the trends will reverse.
Moapa Valley football coach Brent Lewis thought he could dodge an icy Gatorade shower by dumping the bucket in the final minutes Saturday night.
Today at Ford Field, the Detroit Lions will continue their quest for the NFL’s first 0-16 season against the franchise that gave the NFL its only 0-14 season, Tampa Bay.
Drifting around the perimeter, UNLV senior Joe Darger waited for the defense to lose sight of him. When he found an opening, Darger was looking to shoot at every opportunity.
With the economy continuing to nose dive, boxing in Nevada might be looking at major changes in 2009.
The word of the week was cuts, as state and local officials continued to wrestle with budgets decimated by the widening economic crisis.
WASHINGTON — The Senate last week finalized a bill that extends unemployment benefits by seven weeks, and by 13 weeks in states where jobless rates are higher than 6 percent.
AFTER HIS 16-YEAR-OLD SON WAS IMPLICATED in a street race that resulted in a fatal crash in Henderson, District Judge Donald Mosley issued a statement through local public relations firm Fierro Communications in which he states, “My heart goes out to the William’s family.”
One of the new restaurants at Steve Wynn‘s Encore hotel will pay homage to Frank Sinatra and another will feature walls that lift up and down, transforming the room throughout the evening.
Sandee Malina worked out a plan with her two young children: Whenever they heard the doorbell ring or a knock on the door, they were to run into a room with a phone and lock the door.
•The United Feature Syndicate crossword puzzle on the Variety page in Saturday’s Review-Journal was repeated from Friday. The correct crossword puzzle can be found on page 2A of today’s Review-Journal.
The children mill around tentatively at first as the afternoon’s long shadows soften the light in Child Haven’s inner yard.
How much money do you expect will be spent on transportation projects in Southern Nevada over the next 20 years? $500 million? $1 billion? $5 billion?
Generally, incumbent officeholders have the advantage in elections.
A multimillion-dollar real estate scam orchestrated by a pair of Las Vegans worked this way, federal authorities say:
Casino companies were caught spending money “like drunken sailors” when the economic downturn hit, Harrah’s Entertainment Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gary Loveman told attendees at the Global Gaming Expo here Wednesday. And many of the regional and destination resorts those companies were building with cheap credit were bringing in very low investment returns, Mr. Loveman told those attending the convention’s “State of the Industry” roundtable.
I, along with several other Review-Journal scriveners, recently joined the lowing herds browsing the ether — otherwise known as bloggers, those free-range creatures who mostly chew up the intellectual property of others and spit out their cuds online.
Medical doctor Tim Ryan (tfr.ryan@comcast.net) responds to my recent column on medical costs:
When I contemplate the dangers facing America, two competing thoughts arise regarding the Democratic takeover of the federal government.
Members of the Culinary union have as much right as anyone to attend Las Vegas City Council meetings and make their opinions known.
“Some judges are in office for an entire career and do not accumulate the type of dismal professional history that the record in this case establishes. … No employee, even those inured to a judges’ mercurial temperament and foul mouth, should have to experience what Judge Halverson made her immediate staff live and work through.”
People wonder why Mike Huckabee would come out with a book that violates Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment, which is not to criticize another Republican, and trashes the wholly deserving Mitt Romney.
For the past year, students have been affected by Nevada’s poor economic climate. Higher education system Chancellor Jim Rogers has spearheaded the call to oppose any further budget cuts, and for that we, the students, are grateful — not only to Chancellor Rogers, but to his family as well.