Eight-time defending Class 4A state basketball champion Bishop Gorman, which finished last season in New York at the GEICO Nationals, opens the season again as the team to beat in Nevada.
Sam Gordon
Former Columnist/Enterprise
Contesting Division I basketball games at a high school is an abnormality. But the event’s senior director, Jon Albaugh, said he sought to provide the mid-major participants a more intimate experience at a smaller venue.
Banks, a 6-foot-2-inch point guard, returned to his hometown to play in the MGM Resorts Main Event, and started for the Cowboys on Sunday in a 56-41 loss to No. 23 Colorado.
Deontay Wilder retained his WBC heavyweight title Saturday night with a seventh-round knockout of Luis Ortiz at the MGM Grand Garden.
UNLV isn’t the only college basketball team playing in Las Vegas this week. The city is welcoming several events across a plethora of venues before and after Thanksgiving.
Undefeated WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder fights Luis Ortiz on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden, his first bout in Las Vegas since he won the title Jan. 17, 2015.
Luis Ortiz defected to the U.S. in 2009 from his native Cuba, hoping a career in pro boxing could provide better care for his daughter, Lismercedes, who has a rare skin disease.
Bray completed the 26.2-mile course Sunday in 3 hours, 13 minutes to clinch her first marathon victory in three tries.
Thomas Adamietz intermittently completed the full body exercise throughout his trek down the Las Vegas Strip to raise money for cancer research.
Puzey won the 26.2-mile race for the second consecutive year with a time of 2 hours, 28 minutes, 4 seconds.
More than 35,000 are registered to run in the marathon or half-marathon. They’ll start their journey at 4:30 p.m. Sunday and conclude it under the neon lights on the Las Vegas Strip.
Judith Schweitzer, 73, had signed up for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon in 2016 and 2017, but could not participate because of two untimely surgeries shortly before the races.
Cicely and David Sapp were married in 2016 during the Las Vegas Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon and return every year to celebrate their anniversary by running in the half marathon.
Randy Lazer, preparing to run the Las Vegas Marathon for the 18th consecutive year, suffered a heart attack in 2002 and was dead for two minutes before doctors revived him.
Lockwood, 22, completed his first five eight-second rides at the PBR World Finals and finished the event Sunday with an aggregate score of 453 to win the event — and his second championship in three seasons after winning his first title in 2017.