Gary Bettman has a job, so it’s not as if the NHL commissioner was running for some political office when speaking hypothetically this week.
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Ricky Hatton has a plan. Doesn’t everyone?
When order has been restored and all the nonmajor basketball programs are sent home from the NCAA Tournament — or, in the case of this year’s Cinderella-lacking bracket, all the below-average-to-awful Big Ten teams and Arizona — the Final Four will be staged in Detroit.
What would you think if a stranger walked into your outdoor club meeting and asked the attendees to reveal their favorite hunting and fishing spots? What if he rolled out Nevada topographical maps and handed you and your friends a highlighter?
The punch line that the Sunrise Region basketball playoffs turned into this week sort of makes you wonder:
The problem with fishing, hunting and other outdoor sports is stuff. No matter how much stuff we have, there always seems to be something else we need, never mind that our shelves are already full of other stuff we absolutely had to have but used only once or twice.
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.
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.
Memo to the person who keeps official stats for UNLV basketball games: Tre’Von Willis wants to have a little chat.
Future book wagers embody the theory of betting a little to win a lot. So if you think you know the winner of an upcoming Breeders’ Cup race or the 2009 Kentucky Derby, I recommend you go right now and see John Avello, the race and sports book director at Wynn Las Vegas.
BEIJING — The woman stood below a silhouette that made Liu Xiang appear larger than life. Perhaps even larger than China, and that’s saying something around these parts. She managed a smile although her heart ached.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
Fiery wrong-way crash kills 2 on 215 Beltway in northwest Las Vegas
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school
Mystery deepens: Monolith outside Vegas may have been in desert for years
Woman arrested after police say she climbed on Reno craps table, threw chips at people