An IRS audit. A blown radiator hose in the midst of rush-hour traffic. Chickenpox.
BERKELEY, Calif. — Jerome Randle scored 23 points and Patrick Christopher 16 as California overcame a sloppy first half to defeat UNR 75-66 on Saturday.
Despite the obvious limitations of veteran quarterback Kerry Collins, the Tennessee Titans seemed destined to be the AFC’s top seed in the playoffs after piling up a 10-0 record.
Way off on his first four shots, UNLV senior Wink Adams began to wonder if Saturday was going to be similar to so many other of his bad shooting days.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Referees overturned a basket by Brigham Young’s Charles Abouo at the buzzer, preserving No. 20 Arizona State’s 76-75 victory over the previously unbeaten Cougars on Saturday.
The Bishop Gorman boys basketball team missed out on the chance to win its own tournament last season. Consider the second time the charm for the Gaels.
As Arizona went into the victory formation with 1:17 left, fans in the west-side stands chanted “U of A,” and they later stormed the Sam Boyd Stadium field as the clock ticked all the way down.
Brigham Young long has been known as Quarterback U, having produced a seemingly endless string of successful signal callers.
As Shaquille O’Neal closes in on a rarefied career milestone — 5,000 missed free throws — John Hollinger of ESPN.com tried to put that feat in its proper historical context.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Maybe a defensive coordinator will work in basketball. But it sure helps when you’ve got a guy hitting almost every shot at the other end.
The UNLV women’s basketball team led No. 22 Oklahoma State by 10 points in the first half and trailed by one point at halftime.
You will hear more about the 3-pointers today, about Wink Adams busting his slump against Arizona’s basketball team, about the lead growing to as many as 22 points in the second half, about the Rebels earning what NCAA Tournament selection committee members would consider a quality win come March.
In a realistic sense, the Super Bowl participants — or at least one of them — will be determined today in a pair of games. Home-field advantage throughout the playoffs is on the line at the Meadowlands and in Nashville, Tenn.
A Britney Spears impersonator found out Friday that the competition between local gay nightclubs is getting toxic.
His tour in Afghanistan cut short by bullet wounds, Derek Bilodeau became a danger to himself and others when he came back to Las Vegas in fall 2007, his family said.
SAN DIEGO — A small plane crash Saturday killed two people in a rural, hilly part of northern San Diego County, authorities said.
CARSON CITY — The Department of Motor Vehicles’ new facial recognition system has led to the arrest of a second person on suspicion of using a false identity.