Braydon Altorfer hit a home run and drove in four runs and Air Force held on for a victory over the top-seeded Rebels in the first round of the Mountain West baseball tournament.
Mark Anderson
Reporter: UNLV football and basketball
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Mark Anderson has been at the Review-Journal since January 1999. He covered UNLV football for 17 seasons before moving to the men’s basketball beat in January 2016, and was president of the Football Writers Association of America in 2016. Anderson returned to the football beat in 2017 and still covers men’s basketball. Before coming to the R-J, he covered UNR football for five seasons at the Reno Gazette-Journal and was the high school sports reporter for the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat from 1988-94. He is a native of Tallahassee and a graduate of the University of Florida.
Basic took advantage of a depleted Bishop Gorman pitching staff to defeat the Gaels and win the Class 5A state baseball championship at Las Vegas Ballpark.
Basic and Bishop Gorman won their opening games in the Class 5A state baseball tournament Thursday at CSN, but did so in dramatically different ways.
The Pac-12 championship game will be Dec. 2 at Allegiant Stadium. The conference hopes the new format increases its chances of making the College Football Playoff.
Because the Raiders are in the Hall of Fame Game, they will play four preseason games. Two will be at Allegiant Stadium against the Vikings and Patriots.
The Raiders added a tight end, cornerback and offensive tackle to their roster.
Fourth-year guard Jackie Young signed a two-year extension. She was the first overall pick of the 2019 WNBA draft.
NASCAR driver and Las Vegas native Kyle Busch and his wife, Samantha, became parents for the second time. They announced the birth on Instagram.
The Indoor Football League National Championship will be played the next three years at the Henderson arena.
Tom Brady took to Twitter on Thursday to post it’s possible he fumbled in the AFC divisional playoffs 20 years ago against the Raiders.
Trayvon Mullen started only five games last season for the Raiders. He battled a toe injury, but didn’t specify what kind of surgery he had.
This is a new format that creates more of a final four atmosphere with the Pacific Coast League and International League divisional winners coming to Las Vegas.
ESPN reported that talks of a four-team tournament in the U.S. that includes a Las Vegas stop are falling apart.
NFL draft experts credited the Raiders for making the most of not having first- and second-round picks.
Palo Verde’s Daniel Bellinger, a tight end at San Diego State, was the first Las Vegas player drafted. The other was Bishop Gorman’s Jalen Nailor, a wide receiver at Michigan State.