I’m no expert on football. At Provo High School I played in the orchestra and wrote for the school paper. The flag-football team I captained during PE class lost every game. But what I lack in sports knowledge, I make up for in loyalty. I grew up in the shadow of “Y” Mountain and have been a solid BYU fan as long as I can remember.
UNLV wouldn’t turn down this record, and nor would most football teams.
For the second straight day Thursday, the Clark County School District postponed its entire schedule of athletic events because of a rare snowstorm in Southern Nevada.
Tim Neverett had been disappointed so many times, he had all but given up on his dream of being an announcer in the major leagues.
Mike Stoops arrived in town with his Arizona football team Tuesday evening, put the Wildcats through a snow-flurried practice the following morning, stepped inside the Lied Athletic Complex at UNLV and answered questions about his program’s first bowl game in a decade.
On only a few occasions this season has UNLV coach Lon Kruger been impressed with his basketball team.
Richard Shapiro’s resignation this week as chairman of the California Horse Racing Board caught everyone by surprise. He had just been appointed to a second four-year term by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Reno boys basketball team might not have the star power of a season ago with standout Olek Czyz now at Duke. But the Huskies still showed Desert Pines why they are the defending Class 4A state champions.
There was supposed to be a public hearing Wednesday on Las Vegas’ plans for a new city hall, but problems with the proposal spotted by critics of the project meant the hearing had to be delayed.
Las Vegas city leaders have always insisted that big-ticket projects downtown, such as a new city hall, will pay for themselves by attracting more development, new residents, businesses and tourists.
An assistant for magician David Copperfield was injured onstage in view of the audience during a Wednesday show and now is recovering from surgery for multiple arm fractures and facial injuries.
A 58-year-old North Las Vegas man riding a scooter died Thursday after his scooter collided with a trailer being towed by a truck on Decatur Boulevard south of Vegas Drive, Las Vegas police said.
There is a flip side to tourists getting snapshots of themselves in the snow at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, children crafting Snow Angels and skiers anticipating great conditions this weekend on Mount Charleston. It’s a law of nature.
You know the financial outlook is glum when the mortgage brokers who arrange loans have quit paying their own debts.
Erick Manier-Wilson calls his 17-month-old daughter, Eryan, his “miracle baby.”
RENO — Nevada wildlife officials and a houndsman with dogs searched Thursday for a young mountain lion that attacked a woman in the foothills of Virginia City southeast of Reno — only the second such attack in the state on record.
I try not to brag about my video game column, which runs in the Review-Journal and in newspapers across America. But the other day, Terry Fator — the Strip’s $100 million singing ventriloquist — called me to chat about games because he knows my Game Dork column.
RENO — Another winter storm was headed Thursday for much of the northern Sierra and Lake Tahoe, where another foot or so of snow was expected at lake level by Friday and up to 2 feet at higher elevations.
When then-Treasurer Brian Krolicki didn’t get as much money from the state Legislature as he thought he should to market a state college savings program, he decided to get the funding through other means: routing program fees through “off-line budgets.”
CARSON CITY — State employee health care benefits would be brought into line with what private companies in Nevada offer their employees under recommendations approved Thursday by the Spending and Government Efficiency Commission.
Gary Mott’s life early Thursday was like that of hundreds of truckers and motorists caught in the wintry weather near Primm: Instead of putting the pedal to the metal, he was parked on Interstate 15, stopped cold in a mile-long traffic jam about 40 miles south of Las Vegas.
CARSON CITY — Every Wednesday morning teenage prostitutes appear in District Judge William Voy’s court where they receive minor sentences he readily admits won’t keep them from going back to their pimps and the mean streets.
Taza Indian Kitchen has opened at 9530 S. Eastern Ave. in Henderson. It serves traditional and modern Indian cuisine such as pani poori, chicken pakora, tandoori jumbo prawns, channa masala, lamb vindaloo, fish curry and more. A lunch buffet is served from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily; dinner is served from 5 to 10 p.m. daily. Call 898-8292. …
Vegas has been lucky to have at least two outstanding holiday productions this season, one of which still is running.
