Unusual season in college football has Las Vegas Bowl director John Saccenti crossing state lines in snowy weather to nail down opponents.
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Popular Fanfest, sponsored by Las Vegas Motor Speedway, gets the black flag from NASCAR drivers.
Angela Savage of Boulder City, daughter of late Indy 500 racer, joins all-female team for kart racer Abby McLaughlin of Indianapolis.
Russ Nixon was a lifetime baseball man, having spent 55 years in the game as a player, coach and manager. He was 81 when he died Nov. 9 following a lengthy illness.
Young Rebels come from nowhere to win WAC title, will play San Diego State in NCAA opener on Thursday.
Former Las Vegas 51s catcher David Ross, who hit a home run in his final game for the Cubs during Game 7 of the World Series, prevented a potential ugly scene in Portland from escalating in 2002.
The UNLV women’s soccer team will play fourth-ranked Brigham Young in a first-round NCAA Tournament game at 6 p.m. Friday in Provo, Utah.
Baseball Hall of Famer Greg Maddux engages audience during “Conversations With Norm” at The Smith Center.
Mike Bryant, father of Cubs star third baseman Kris, relives the final out of the World Series that sent the city of Chicago into joyous hysterics.
PGA veteran Scott Piercy of Las Vegas fired a 6-under 65 to pull within three shots of the lead Saturday in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at TPC Summerlin.
Five-year-old Tommy Morrissey recently shot 1-over-37 on a regulation golf course designed by Tom Fazio. Missing most of his right arm, he has made a hole-in-one, has holed out from 90 yards and can recite the winners of golf’s major tournaments.
It has been 30 years since Las Vegan Marty Barrett went on a playoff hit parade for the Boston Red Sox that has been memorialized on a website.
Long-suffering Chicago transplants whoop it up as Cubs beat Dodgers for first World Series berth in 71 years.
Most of the attention has turned to the possibility of the Oakland Raiders moving to Las Vegas. There isn’t as much interest anymore about who will drive the Zamboni at Las Vegas NHL games.
Lucas Ahlbach was only 10 when he helped plan his funeral. One of his final requests was to have his own 5k run benefiting cancer research.