When Mountain View Christian School plays Laughlin in its high school football season finale at 1 p.m. today, it will have nine cheerleaders and 15 players.
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It must drive 51s president Don Logan nuts that baseball fans who live within a relay throw of Cashman Field don’t think like that when it comes to top-line pitching prospects.
Remember that critically acclaimed but short-lived TV show called “Men of a Certain Age” starring Ray Romano, about guys who were closing in hard on middle age and trying just as hard to deal with it?
With the Professional Bull Riders in town to decide their championship at the Thomas & Mack Center, I asked J.B. Mauney, one of the best, how his sport would be different if a guy was required to ride for seven seconds, or for nine, or for some other arbitrary length of time, instead of for eight seconds.
You might have seen the percentages for the last play of Saturday’s Michigan State-Michigan college football game. According to ESPN Stats, State’s win probability before the ill-fated punt attempt by the Maize and Blue with 10 seconds left was 0.2 percent.
When it comes to UNLV’s nonrevenue sports, men’s soccer just might be my favorite. Like most of the so-called Olympic sports, the soccer team operates on a shoestring budget. It also operates with local kids — of the 25 players on the roster, 13 are from the Las Vegas area and 15 are Nevadans.
Before his father succeeded Randall Cunningham as UNLV’s starting quarterback, Steve Stallworth starred at Yuma High, the big high school in Yuma.
This is a clip of a Jung Hoon of the Lotte Giants hitting a home run during a Korean Baseball Organization game earlier this season, and of Hoon flipping his bat.
If you’re one who remembers obscure scenes from classic movies, you may recall the one in “American Graffiti” in which Toad tries to buy booze at a liquor store.
If you’re someone who plays tennis, or someone who gets up early to watch it played on the hallowed grass courts of Wimbledon on TV, then you probably will agree with this:
This is how the foundation founded by former UNLV soccer star Simon Keith describes its annual golf tournament, held Friday under idyllic conditions and scenic backdrops at Revere Golf Course in Henderson:
Before Thursday, the only time I had spoken with Vlade Divac was years ago. It was Vlade, local radio personality Seat Williams and me sitting in a tiny radio station DJ cubicle.
If you are one of those people who take perverse pleasure in watching people more famous than you fail, then you must have enjoyed watching kickers miss extra points and field goals in the NFL last weekend.
Minutes after the checkered flag was waved at Saturday night’s Rhino Linings 350 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, I sidled over to where a NASCAR truck series official was updating championship points. He could have used his fingers instead of calculator.
They were lining up the NASCAR trucks for Saturday’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway when a guy wearing a Route 66 shirt in the media center noticed one of the TVs had been switched. Instead of the race broadcast, it was showing the Arizona State-UCLA football game.