Tyler Waguespack of Gonzales, Louisiana, won the second go-round Friday night in the National Finals Rodeo at the Thomas Mack Center by taking down his steer in 3.6 seconds.
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Sam Gordon was born and raised in Minneapolis and is back for his second stint with the Review-Journal. He’s covered the NFL, NBA, the Big Ten, the Mountain West and prep sports for various publications during his professional tenure. Gordon, a University of Minnesota graduate, is a basketball junkie who coached high school basketball for three seasons.
Elko native Dakota Eldridge is competing in the National Finals Rodeo at the Thomas Mack Center for the sixth time after missing last year’s event with a knee injury.
Mena Hawkins has cerebral palsy, but the 17-year-old is determined to complete the one-mile race Saturday at the Las Vegas Great Santa Run after training for eight months.
Richmond Champion of The Woodlands, Texas, rode Pickett Pro Rodeo’s Night Crawler to a first-place score of 91.5 on Thursday in the first go-round of the National Finals Rodeo.
The 61st annual National Finals Rodeo begins Thursday and runs through Dec. 14 at the Thomas Mack Center. Plenty of money and world champion belt buckles are on the line.
The PRCA introduced its Junior Rodeo Association on Tuesday, an organization that educates youth ranging from ages 8 to 19 about the core events.
Carl Frampton won every round en route to a 10-round unanimous decision over Tyler McCreary on Saturday night at the Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
Greg Suckow, a fan known in Iowa as “Hawkeye Elvis,” made the trip to watch his beloved Iowa Hawkeyes play in the Continental Tires Las Vegas Invitational.
Carl Frampton is eager to prove he’s still one of the world’s best featherweights. He will fight Saturday in Las Vegas almost four months after injuring his left hand.
Centennial opens the season again as the best girls basketball team in Nevada and ranked No. 23 nationally by USA Today. The Bulldogs have won five straight state titles.
Eight-time defending Class 4A state basketball champion Bishop Gorman, which finished last season in New York at the GEICO Nationals, opens the season again as the team to beat in Nevada.
Contesting Division I basketball games at a high school is an abnormality. But the event’s senior director, Jon Albaugh, said he sought to provide the mid-major participants a more intimate experience at a smaller venue.
Banks, a 6-foot-2-inch point guard, returned to his hometown to play in the MGM Resorts Main Event, and started for the Cowboys on Sunday in a 56-41 loss to No. 23 Colorado.
Deontay Wilder retained his WBC heavyweight title Saturday night with a seventh-round knockout of Luis Ortiz at the MGM Grand Garden.
UNLV isn’t the only college basketball team playing in Las Vegas this week. The city is welcoming several events across a plethora of venues before and after Thanksgiving.