The International Tennis Federation is to women’s tennis what the Pacific Coast League is to major league baseball, minus the peanuts and Cracker Jack.
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Longtime Las Vegan Dan Currie, who played outside linebacker for Vince Lombardi’s championship teams in Green Bay during the 1960s and was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, died Monday. He was 82.
Allie Kiick, daughter of former Miami Dolphins’ star Jim Kiick, overcame cancer and four knee surgeries to play in the U.S. Open.
Is there a chance the Las Vegas Bowl could evolve into a bowl game with larger implications? It happened in Phoenix with the Fiesta Bowl.
Western beat Rancho 20-0 on Friday, snapping a 43-game losing streak — a run of futility that had gone on much longer if you take away a game the Warriors won via forfeit in 2012.
Former Virginia head coach Mike London once survived having a gun pointed at his forehead when he was a detective; saved daughter’s life with long shot bone marrow transplant.
After graduating from Stanford, Centennial High’s Malcolm Allen signs to play for fellow Las Vegan Jack Murphy on the Northern Arizona basketball team.
Marcus Banks, mostly known for defense during his NBA career, now wants to be known as a father to his children.
Las Vegas’ Joey Gallo among 12 players who have touched ‘em all in 2017 without the baseball leaving the yard.
Dan D’Uva makes the jump from Syracuse to the expansion Golden Knights and earns praise from a Las Vegas author of a hockey broadcasting book.
Almost 13,000 recreational pool players have invaded Las Vegas for the world’s largest pool tournament, so noted by Guinness World Records.
Purchasing hockey tickets online is secure and efficient, but not nearly as cool as camping out at the box office to acquire them the old fashioned way.
Danny Musovski, a senior forward from Henderson, has been named to the MAC Hermann Watch List for the second straight year. He is the first UNLV soccer player to be so honored.
The announcement that a minor league domestic soccer franchise will play at Cashman Field in 2018 is greeted with air horns and cheers.
When you’re driving on a languid summer night with only time and distance as companions, the familiar rhythms andcadences of a ballgame and its broadcaster will keep you company.
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