After leaving UNLV in 1991, Anderson Hunt played basketball in France, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Venezuela.
Before Wink Adams was recruited to UNLV, he was a student of the basketball program’s history. He knew all about the great players and teams of the past, and it was his dream to be a part of it.
To guarantee a bowl appearance this season, UNLV needs to help itself and receive help from others.
When featherweight Urijah Faber surrendered his two-year grip on the World Extreme Cagefighting title Wednesday, it probably came as a shock to fans who weren’t able to watch the card on television.
NASCAR got closer to earning NFL-like status on Sunday afternoon, but in a negative way.
I can’t imagine a better cast — on a professional or amateur stage — than the one performing Christopher Durang’s “The Marriage of Bette and Boo” at Nevada Conservatory Theatre.
If you went to Madonna‘s concert on Saturday or Sunday at the MGM, you noticed the shows were near sellouts. That’s pretty crazy, considering the Strip has taken financial hits lately.
RENO — State Sen. Bill Raggio, one of Nevada’s most influential Republicans, is urging his party to move away from the extreme right after the state swung to Democrats this year.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons said Monday he will be the first to take a salary cut if it will help save jobs of state employees and school teachers.
RENO — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management needs to consider euthanizing wild horses or selling many of them to reduce spiraling costs of keeping them in long-term holding pens, said a government report Monday.
For the most part, the nine players who reached Sunday’s final table of the World Series of Poker main event didn’t mind the 117-day wait between hands.
NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg says a longtime New York political operative, who died while directing Barack Obama’s Nevada campaign, is looking down from heaven with “a smile on his face.”
CARSON CITY — Nevada residents age 62 and older got some bad news Monday: The property tax rebate checks that many of them receive were cut by 2.9 percent by the state Board of Examiners.
Tuition might go up next year at the state’s colleges and universities.
Those looking for Veterans Day activities to salute military members have a few options around Southern Nevada today.
Two bodies were discovered by authorities Monday afternoon in the desert at the base of the Sheep Mountains, North Las Vegas police said.
RENO — The defeat of proposed sales tax and motor vehicle registration fee increases for school maintenance and construction could mean longer bus rides, Washoe County school officials said.
Sometimes you admire a production as much for what it doesn’t do as for what it does.
The parents arrested this weekend for leaving two of their children in a car for 30 minutes while they gambled at the Tuscany are Brian John Paynter and Shuang Chen of Las Vegas, police said Monday.
CARSON CITY — Former Las Vegas television newsman Dan Burns was named Monday as the press secretary to Gov. Jim Gibbons, whose public image and poll numbers have been battered since his election in 2006.
Two women were killed Sunday in a head-on collision on state Route 160 about one mile west of state Route 159.