Here are the top five defensive players to watch in in Southern Nevada next season. No. 5: DT Jordan Butler, Desert Pines No. 4: LB Kyle Beaudry, Liberty No. 3: DE Darnell Washington, Desert Pines No. 2: CB Kyu Kelly, Bishop Gorman No. 1: DE Treven Ma’ae, Bishop Gorman
LV Bowl head John Saccenti has major decisions to make. The bowl will move to new Raiders stadium in 2020. The Las Vegas Bowl has had top choice of the Mountain West since 2006. Mario Cristobal and Oregon represented the Pac-12 last year The Pac-12 could face another Power Five team in the Las Vegas Bowl in future years.
Dead Body Found in Home of New York Giants’ Janoris Jenkins ‘TMZ Sports’ broke the story and said the Major Crimes Unit is conducting an investigation. The deceased man’s body was reportedly discovered by a worker in the basement of Jenkins’ New Jersey home on Tuesday morning. The report also claims the NFL cornerback was out of state during the time of the body’s discovery. The identity of the victim and the cause of death are unclear.
Racial prejudice. Religious persecution. Gender equality. Those ripped-from-the-headlines topics may be timely, but they’re also timeless. Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” and “Othello” illustrate the point. So do the musical “Big River,” based on Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn,” and the farcical “The Foreigner.” The festival’s first production of “Henry VI Part One” also highlights the season, as does “An Iliad” and “The Merry Wives of Windsor.”
One person was displaced early Tuesday morning after a fire at a central valley apartment complex.
The fire was called in about 3:30 a.m. at the Lantana Apartments at 1200 S. Torrey Pines Drive, near Charleston Boulevard.
The fire started with an air conditioning unit on the roof of a building in the complex. The fire didn’t extend to the inside of the building, but one of the apartments was damaged by smoke and water.
No injuries were reported, and the fire was out within about 30 minutes.
Ryan Reaves has become the Golden Knights latest unlikely hero. Reaves scored the series-clinching goal in the Western Conference Finals. It was his first goal with the Golden Knights. It came after Reaves sat for Vegas’ first nine playoff games. Now he’s become a integral part of the team’s forecheck. He gets his chance and he goes in there and he played great hockey. It’s not surprising.
Las Vegas racer Noah Gragson predicted he was in for a “rude awakening” in his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut. Instead, he finished second at Richmond Raceway in Virginia. Gragson normally drives for fellow Las Vegan Kyle Busch in the NASCAR Truck Series. The race at Richmond was one of three in which he will compete for former Super Bowl coach Joe Gibbs. The second one is this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, a restrictor-plate track at which Gragson has little experience. “Talladega, that one might come back in a ball or something. Man, I’m not too good of a restrictor-plate racer just because I don’t have a lot of experience.”
Bill Cosby Found Guilty on All Charges The 80-year-old actor has been convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, all of which have a penalty of 10 years in prison. In 2004, Cosby drugged and raped Andrea Constand, a Temple University employee, when she went to him for career advice. Despite only being convicted for Constand’s case, multiple other women have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct. The verdict was delivered by the jury on Thursday after more than 14 hours of deliberation. This was the second trial for Constrand’s case against Cosby after the first trial ended in a mistrial when the jury could not come to a conclusion.
Temperatures are expected to reach the high 90s for Knights playoff games against the San Jose Sharks at T-Mobile Arena this weekend. The Golden Knights are making adjustments to keep the condition of the ice in tip-top shape. “The whole idea is that ambient temperature and inside temperature have a relationship,” said T-Mobile conversion manager and ice maker George Salami. Sometimes when it is humid outside, fog can form on the ice. During the 1975 Stanley Cup finals between the Buffalo Sabres and Philadelphia Flyers, a dense fog formed at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres won in double overtime on a shot by Rene Robert that Flyers goalie Bernie Parent — and most in attendance — did not see.
Lights FC striker Samuel Ochoa has started the season in a slump. Ochoa has no goals or assists in the team’s first four games. Still, he doesn’t plan to change up his routine to get going. It’s just a matter of time. We all go through a few games without scoring a goal. Except (Lionel) Messi and (Cristiano) Ronaldo. Coach Isidro Sanchez also believes Ochoa’s time is coming. When Ochoa goes that many minutes without scoring, yes it’s a lot for my striker. … But each day, each minute, he’s getting closer.
