A Las Vegas man recently spent $1,500 to take his family to see Cleveland play the Clippers in Los Angeles, only to have the Cavaliers rest star players LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love.
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There are two baseball Pedro Lopezes — the Las Vegas 51s’ new manager, and a former utility infielder who had cups of major league coffee with the White Sox and Reds.
51s president Don Logan said he didn’t hear two tall evergreen trees get uprooted from the berm in right field and topple down an earthen bank near the outdoor batting cage during a recent wind storm.
An NCAA representative dismissed a proposal to bring the women’s Sweet 16 to Las Vegas, despite abysmal attendance at this year’s regionals.
Paul Son-Dice of Las Vegas, led by former UNLV Rebels Armon Gilliam, Sudden Sam Smith and Greg Goorjian, won the 1984 AAU men’s national basketball championship on home turf.
51s president Don Logan says Las Vegas’ ties to Far East make preliminary World Baseball Classic rounds worth pursuing.
Rich Lupcho, a Las Vegas graveyard shift bartender, was one of the guys who passed the basketball to prolific Pete Maravich at Louisiana State.
Former North Carolina State star Thurl Bailey never gets tired talking about the Wolfpack’s upset of Houston in the 1983 NCAA championship basketball game.
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.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is considering spending $2.5 million annually over the next seven years to bring a second Cup Series race to town, despite NASCAR’s downward spiral.
Surprisingly, there were more groans than cheers when Kurt Busch’s rivals ran out gas and the Las Vegas native pulled away to win his first Daytona 500 victory.
Alyssa Arnett, a sophomore all-conference diver, received a wedding proposal from the high-rise platform at the Mountain West championships. She agreed to take the plunge.
Former UNLV interim coach Todd Simon, Durango High equipment manager Jack Murphy share coaching stage as Southern Utah knocks off Northern Arizona.
Veteran play-by-play man Ken Korach has called a perfect game and witnessed many baseball thrills, but has yet to catch a foul ball in the booth.
Dexter Irvin, director of athletics at College of Southern Nevada, will start raising money to reinstate men’s and women’s junior college basketball at the Henderson campus.
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