To acquire the second race, Speedway Motorsports Inc., LVMS’ parent company, had to move the fall race from its sister track at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
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Baseball Hall of Famer Greg Maddux engages audience during “Conversations With Norm” at The Smith Center.
With the Cubs, runaway leaders in the NL Central, on the verge of clinching their division prematurely, having Kris Bryant play all nine positions in one game might be something to keep fans engaged down the stretch.
Western High grad and Golf Channel reporter Jerry Foltz hopes reinstating golf will grow the game, and that 150-pound rodents will stay off the fairways in Brazil.
Nobody has actually died during the rigorous Mojave Death Race. Not yet anyway. But the captain of the winning team says he has experienced the occasional hallucination.
Bill Foley, the former pond hockey player who, to use his favorite expression, will own Las Vegas’ NHL expansion entry “if we get a team,” comes across as a fairly common man.
In 1864, the story goes, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman wired a military order to Gen. John M. Corse back at Union Army headquarters in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The directive was supposed to say “hold on, relief is coming.” It came out “hold the fort,” and then after that, it became “hold down the fort.”
The elbow caught Diamond Major square. It was as if someone had painted a target on the middle of her forehead and fired a bazooka. It was friendly fire — it was at a Lady Rebels practice a couple of weeks ago.
“Gentleman Jim” Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons were among those who went into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame on Saturday during a gala affair at — where else? — Caesars Palace. The “Home of Champions.”
Miki Sudo, 29, won her second consecutive Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in the women’s division by scarfing down 38 frankfurters in 10 minutes by first removing the hot dog from the bun and eating it, then dipping the bun in Crystal Light and eating it.
New pitch clocks installed in minor league ballparks might — or might not — speed up the game from a snail’s pace to a real fast snail’s pace. It’s being tried experimentally in the bushes, because that’s how baseball does things — it uses its minor leagues as a laboratory whenever it considers changing the game.
UNLV lost to UNR in basketball again on Wednesday night, and that was a bad thing if you were Rebels coach Dave Rice, who takes a ration of grief — or something like it — whenever the Rebels stub a toe against the lesser squads of the Mountain West Conference.
The Cowboy Christmas and Fanfest drew 66,258 shoppers to giant shopping the Las Vegas Convention Center on opening weekend. Is it any wonder Orlando and Dallas tried to rustle the cash cow that is the National Finals Rodeo?
It may not be the most scientific poll, but jersey sales at Dick’s Sporting Goods say Nevadans root for Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts.
It has been 49 years since James Dean, one of the first actor-turned racers, died in a crash while chasing his need for speed in California.
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