The Paris Olympics gets underway in full force this weekend. Here is the TV schedule for Saturday and Sunday, plus the schedule for local competitors.
Jim Barnes
Assistant Sports Editor
Email: jbarnes@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-0277
X: @JimBarnesLV
Jim Barnes was named assistant sports editor at the Review-Journal in September 2022. He previously covered gaming and tourism for the Review-Journal. He first joined the RJ as a copy editor in 2012 and has covered sports betting and the World Series of Poker for the RJ. The Fort Worth, Texas, native previously was the sports editor at the Waco Tribune-Herald and also covered high school sports for the Dallas Morning News. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. He is an experienced gambler who has competed in the Westgate SuperContest and the World Series of Poker Main Event.
Boys and girls ages 8 to 14 participated in a street hockey camp with 2025 NHL draft prospects Tuesday at Veterans Memorial Community Center.
The Las Vegas Bowl announced its conference affiliations for the next two seasons Friday. The game will be played Dec. 27 at Allegiant Stadium.
A Las Vegas teenager added a third event to her itinerary for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris by finishing second to world record-holder Katie Ledecky on Wednesday.
The Review-Journal’s award-winning sports staff has added a new reporter to cover UNLV and the two-time defending WNBA champion Aces.
Barry Odom led UNLV to a 9-5 record and a first-place regular-season finish in the Mountain West in his first season as coach. He was named the conference’s coach of the year.
Former Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant collected on a 13-team college basketball parlay worth more than $400,000 — at UNLV’s expense.
U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., recently wrote to the leadership of the major professional sports leagues and the NCAA after a series of sports betting violations.
Florida and Oregon State players took a look around Las Vegas on Wednesday as they prepare for Saturday’s Las Vegas Bowl at Allegiant Stadium.
The New York Giants scored a “meaningless” touchdown with eight seconds left to flip the betting winners for the spread and total against the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday.
Briana Johnson has 27 years of experience in the Clark County assessor’s office, while Helen Oseguera and Brandon Menesini are first-time candidates.
Thomas Jeeves and Delgado M. Lopez Jr. won’t face the certification fight that engulfed outgoing North Las Vegas constable Robert Eliason.
Despite a deluge of advertising, only 34 percent of California voters supported a ballot measure allowing mobile sports betting in a recent poll.
Nevada lost 600 jobs in August, marking the first time the number of the jobs in the state has gone down in a month since employment bottomed out in May 2020.
The refreshed rooms in the Studio Tower (formerly known as the West Wing) at the MGM Grand are expected to be completed by the end of the year.