A crowd of 6,011 witnessed a New Year’s Eve thriller as Wyoming senior Larry Nance Jr. traded shots with UNLV sophomore Chris Wood and pushed Wyoming to a 76-71 in a Mountain West opener at the Arena-Auditorium in Laramie.
Las Vegas headliner Joe Rogan’s podcast has become so popular, “The Joe Rogan Experience” earns a staggering 11 million downloads a month. Those are TV show numbers.
What you are witnessing is Dave Rice’s prophecy coming true, and within it will be these sorts of close losses to an experienced team. But as the games and weeks and possessions pass, UNLV basketball improves.
On Wednesday, with the calendar ready to turn to 2015, the Lady Rebels rallied from eight points down in the second half and held off Wyoming 58-55 at Cox Pavilion in the Mountain West opener for both teams.
It was an embarrassing Christmas for Nivea Cabrera after she was accused by her fiance’s mother of letting her 5-year-old granddaughter play with a sex toy.
UFC 40 was a seminal moment in the development of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. It also served as a driving force in the development of Myles Jury from a kid training in martial arts to someone who saw a potential career in fighting.
Martin Luther was a 16th-century German friar who wrote the Ninety-Five Theses about religious indulgences, or the selling of them, thereby sparking the Protestant Reformation.
The end result wasn’t what Chaparral’s girls basketball team wanted Wednesday.
Henderson calendar highlights this week include the opening of a City Lights Art Gallery show featuring Judi Moreo.
During her 40 years as an educator, Doris Reed taught in three nations and expanded the minds of hundreds of students.
A second suspect was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a Los Angeles shooting over the weekend where two men opened fire on a police squad car.
One dog perished and eight adults were displaced Wednesday after a house fire near Rancho Drive and Oakey Boulevard, according to Las Vegas Fire Department.
The end result wasn’t what Chaparral’s girls basketball team wanted Wednesday. But there was no denying the Cowboys continue to show improvement.
On a day when all thoroughbred racehorses celebrate being a year older, horseplayers in race books throughout Nevada also have a reason to celebrate today as the signal emanating from Aqueduct in New York will go on uninterrupted for now.
Call me sentimental, nostalgic or maybe even a little on the mature side, but it is New Year’s Day. So I will begin this column by wishing all of you a Happy New Year. Perhaps this is the old school thing to do, but I do miss the days when everyone wished each other a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. That was before the holiday season was completely driven by retail interests and political correctness.
Vegas Wash continues to produce plenty of bait for anglers looking to catch a few striped bass, many of which are being caught not far from this area.
Georgia Tech and Mississippi State put on an offensive show in combining for more than 1,100 yards in total offense, but it was Tech’s ability to convert turnovers into points and come up with key stops that secured the Yellow Jackets’ 49-34 victory Wednesday night in the Capital One Orange Bowl.
U.S. Highway 95 has reopened at the Nevada-California in southern Clark County after it was shut down because of ice on the road, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against a Philadelphia-area couple charged in the torture death of the woman’s 3-year-old son.
A Las Vegas police helicopter dodged power lines, people and houses as it came to a hard landing after an apparent mechanical problem on 23rd Street on New Year’s Eve.
The Buffalo Bills announced that Doug Marrone exercised an option clause in his contract and resigned as the team’s head coach.
The campaign manager of a Democrat who challenged U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana tipped off a blogger that the Republican lawmaker had spoken to a white supremacist group in 2002.
The mother of a man who was shot and killed by two federal rangers near Red Rock Canyon in February has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
Chase Jeter had 18 points and 12 rebounds Wednesday to lead Bishop Gorman’s boys basketball team to a 71-39 win over Franklin (Ohio) in the championship game of the Beach Ball Classic in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Sean White and his partner, Mathew Peters, discovered someone had scratched a homophobic slur into the front door of their Denver apartment, “it was actually carved into the door with a knife or key,” White said, “I was so mad I was shaking.”
Follow the link for the schedules and results (when available) of the boys and girls basketball tournaments being held in Las Vegas and Henderson after Christmas.
The bowl trip is a holiday tradition for many college football fans. But this season, the supporters of the four teams playing in the first College Football Playoff are facing a choice about which trip to take: Semifinal or championship game?
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