The Chris Sailer Kicking/Rubio Long Snapping camp in Las Vegas is to special team players what the Manning Passing Academy is to aspiring quarterbacks.
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The Fan Cost Index for a family of four to attend a minor league baseball game is hundreds of dollars lower than in major league sports.
The local U.S. Open qualifier was Monday at SouthShore Golf Club at Lake Las Vegas in Henderson, a course that is spectacular and picturesque but perhaps better suited for bighorn sheep.
Public address announcer Dick Calvert was inducted into UNLV’s Athletics Hall of Fame on Thursday under the heading of “distinguished contributor,” which is what he has been for the past 47 years.
On Monday, UNLV signed the last recruit of its 2017 football class. His name is Thaddeus Thatcher. He is 9 years old, and for the past two years has been fighting t-cell leukemia/lymphoma.
Glenallen Hill, manager of the Albuquerque Isotopes, once hit a legendary home run at Wrigley Field that landed on the rooftops across the street in left field.
Kyle Dake has won four NCAA wrestling championships at Cornell, in four weight classes, and also belongs to a prestigious secret honor society.
Had he won the Cup Series championship, NASCAR’s popular Dale Earnhardt Jr. said he would have retired on the spot at the Las Vegas awards banquet.
With the NHL and NFL soon to call Las Vegas home, bringing minor league soccer to town might not be such a good idea anymore.
On Tuesday, UNLV announced the hiring of Desiree Reed-Francois, a former deputy athletic director at Virginia Tech, and put her in charge of Sam Boyd Stadium and the Thomas & Mack Center.
Eric Thames ripped the cover off the baseball during two stints with the 51s before leaving for Korea and resurfacing in Milwaukee as an early-season star.
Henderson’s Jerry Izenberg will be signing his new book “Once There Were Giants — The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing” at 5 p.m. Friday at Barnes & Noble, 567 N. Stephanie, in Henderson.
The only Vegas Grand Prix, a Championship Auto Racing Teams race run through downtown Las Vegas on Easter weekend, took place in 2007.
A Las Vegas man recently spent $1,500 to take his family to see Cleveland play the Clippers in Los Angeles, only to have the Cavaliers rest star players LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love.
There are two baseball Pedro Lopezes — the Las Vegas 51s’ new manager, and a former utility infielder who had cups of major league coffee with the White Sox and Reds.