Most of the attention has turned to the possibility of the Oakland Raiders moving to Las Vegas. There isn’t as much interest anymore about who will drive the Zamboni at Las Vegas NHL games.
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Lucas Ahlbach was only 10 when he helped plan his funeral. One of his final requests was to have his own 5k run benefiting cancer research.
Elton John’s Smash Hits benefit Monday at Caesars Palace recalls memories of Las Vegas’ tennis past, including the short-lived Tennis Channel Open.
Whenever north of $1 million is raised for a charitable cause via serves and volleys — which is what the World TeamTennis Smash Hits raised for the Elton John AIDS Foundation last year — it’s a pretty big deal.
Andrew Westerlund of Vancouver, British Columbia, a heart transplant and cancer survivor, was feted at the Simon Keith Foundation golf fundraiser benefiting organ transplant patients.
Mitch Glasser, a substitute social studies teacher at Green Valley High and a utility infielder, helped Team Israel beat Great Britain and qualify for the World Baseball Classic.
Steven Jackson, who played high school football in Las Vegas, scored five touchdowns against New Mexico in the 2003 Las Vegas Bowl en route to an outstanding NFL career.
Tom Kemp, 80, and Len Schweitzer, 81, witnessed UNLV’s first football game in 1968, and they have witnessed just about every UNLV home football game since.
It’s the bottom of the ninth for Dodgers broadcaster nonpareil Vin Scully, who is retiring after 67 seasons in the booth.
When Evel Knievel first attempted a death-defying jump over an Idaho river canyon in 1974, everybody knew about it as it was happening. You didn’t have to wait until Monday to read about it.
A few minutes before noon Monday at Desert Pines High School, Tim Hough was standing in a long room that contained a long table outside the principal’s office.
But as far back as spring training he talked (outside the lines) about his days being numbered in New York, or at least how the baseball tea leaves were not lining up with his old team.
When Central Michigan beat Oklahoma State on one of those unfathomable Hail Mary passes, my first thought was this is going to help UNLV on Saturday against the Chippewas.
Established coach Jim Andersen hoping to develop scholarship athletes for Ivy League, Pac-12 rowing schools
Bobby Chacon, who fought Rafael “Bazooka” Limon four times and Cornelius Boza Edwards twice in Las Vegas, was the antagonist in Warren Zevon’s ode to Ray Mancini.
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