High winds put damper on Aviators Opening Night at Las Vegas Ballpark in downtown Summerlin.
Ron Kantowski
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Las Vegas Ballpark, which came to fruition in fewer than 14 months, gets ready to takes its place among minor league baseball cathedrals.
Five years ago, NHRA Funny Car driver J.R. Todd was watching the NCAA basketball tournament at Buffalo Wild Wings in his hometown of Indianapolis when his cellphone rang and changed his racing life.
With Courtney Force having joined sister Ashley in retirement during the offseason, Brittany Force is the only daughter of 16-time Funny Car champion and NHRA legend John Force still racing.
Will Las Vegas baseball fans evolve on the Aviators’ much maligned logo? Baseball people in El Paso say it could happen.
New UNLV basketball coach T.J. Otzelberger’s up-tempo style and family values will be missed by those who cut hair and trim sideburns in Brookings, South Dakota.
Bryan Harper is mostly known for his sublime handlebar mustache and for being Bryce Harper’s older brother. The shadow cast by both was significant.
The manic success of the NHL’s Golden Knights and the impending arrival of the NFL’s Raiders notwithstanding, Bill Laimbeer believes Las Vegas still is primarily a basketball town.
A 12-run, eighth-inning rally in a February game in Phoenix ignited a powder keg under the College of Southern Nevada baseball team which has was 21 games in a row.
Former UNLV assistant coach Todd Simon has guided Southern Utah to just its second postseason appearance in 31 years as an NCAA Division I member.
Kyle Busch earned his 200th NASCAR victory Sunday, tying the Las Vegan with Richard Petty atop the all-time list. But the victory totals of the two drivers are apples and oranges for auto racing fans.
After going 10-22 in his first season and 15-18 in his second, Lew Hill guided the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley to 19 wins in 2018-19.
Chicago State has made little progress in the WAC Tournament in three years, but at least it still plays hard.
It has been three years since UNLV threw basketball coach Dave Rice under the bus. Now a top assistant at Pac-12 champion Washington, he refuses to do the same to his alma mater.
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