Sunday’s Texas Rangers-Toronto Blue Jays was Prince Fielder bobblehead day and fans attending the game got a free bobblehead of the infielder, but something wasn’t quite right.
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It was a case of Las Vegas on Las Vegas baseball crime.
UNLV’s next baseball game is tonight, against North Dakota. The last time the North Dakota team played a home game was May 18, 2013, because it’s too cold to play baseball in Grand Forks at this time of year.
Liberty quarterback Tyler Newman was dominant this season, passing for 3,988 yards and 42 touchdowns in leading the Patriots to a 10-4 record. For his efforts, the Review-Journal selected Newman as the state’s Player of the Year to highlight the all-state team.
Sheldon (Calif.) used red-hot shooting from the perimeter to take an early lead Thursday.
A 13-year veteran of the Marine Corps, Eldorado girls basketball coach Danielle Pope knows a little bit about toughness and heart.
Start spreading the news. The New York Mets are coming to Las Vegas to play the Chicago Cubs in a pair of exhibition games March 15 and 16 at Cashman Field on the annual Big League Weekend.
A lawyer for Alex Rodriguez has declined Major League Baseball’s challenge to make public evidence that led to the 211-game suspension of the New York Yankees star.
Vince Taormina, a sophomore catcher at Silverado High School, was named a second-team All-American by Collegiate Baseball newspaper.
At Reno, pinch hitter Eric Campbell squeezed home the go-ahead run as part of a three-run ninth inning, and the 51s (51-46) rallied to win their third straight.
Las Vegan Kris Bryant won the Golden Spikes Award, USA Baseball announced on Friday. The award is given annually to the nation’s top amateur player.
At Reno, Jacob deGrom allowed six hits and two runs in 6 1/3 innings, and the 51s’ bullpen pitched one-hit ball the rest of the way to win the series opener.
WASHINGTON — A few days in the life of Bryce Harper:
Brigham Young’s radio play-by-play announcer lamented on air how he wished the Cougars played UNLV in baseball more often.
The first pitcher Zach Walters faced in college was the otherworldly Washington Nationals sensation Stephen Strasburg.
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