UNLV looks for its first victory over a Power 5 school since 2019 when the Rebels face Vanderbilt out of the SEC on Saturday at Allegiant Stadium. The Rebels are 4.5-point underdogs and +165 on the money line at the Westgate SuperBook.
Colorado’s stunning upset of TCU in Deion Sanders’ debut as Buffalo’s coach caused a major line move in Saturday’s home opener against Nebraska.
Guess who’s returning to the Lights’ touchline? Technical director Jose Luis Sanchez Sola’s four-game USL suspension is now over. He will coach a regular season-game Saturday for the first time since April 27. The Lights went 0-2-2 in his absence. Now Sola will return to try to pull the team out of its skid. These five weeks he has been with us every day, every single time. He traveled with us to Colorado, Salt Lake City. If he’s on the bench, he’s probably more explosive. Yelling 90 minutes. That’s his energy. That’s always his energy.
A memorial for the 13 people shot and killed at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 in Jefferson County, Colorado. (Ben Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The site of a future memorial for the 12 people shot and killed inside a movie theater on July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado. (Ben Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Zac Pacleb and Adam Hill talk about the last two games of the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament, including how Washington exceeded expectations this season as well as what they are looking forward to in the quarterfinals.
Las Vegas native Tyler Bey scored 14 points and had 10 rebounds in a 97-85 Colorado’s victory over Arizona State in the first round of the Pac-12 men’s basketball tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 7, 2018. (Ron Kantowski/ Las Vegas Review Journal)
Zac Pacleb and Gilbert Manzano talk about the first two games from the Pac-12 Tournament, including a scuffle at the end of Colorado’s win over Arizona State, ASU’s tournament hopes as well as Stanford’s upcoming matchup with UCLA.
Arizona State head coach Bobby Hurley and Colorado head coach Tad Boyle talk about a scuffle that happened at the end of Colorado’s 97-85 win. Arizona State’s Tra Holder was ejected for shoving Colorado’s Tyler Bey. Boyle apologized to ASU after the game.
Silverado High School students walked out of the classroom for 17 minutes Wednesday to protest gun violence, days after a warning from the Clark County School District that students who participate in an upcoming national walkout will face consequences. The walkout offered an early glimpse of what organizers hope will be a national walkout on March 14, when students nationwide plan to leave school for 17 minutes to draw attention to gun violence and gun-control legislation. But in a message to principals on Sunday, Rosanne Richards, an official in the district’s academic unit, said students do not have permission to walk out of school and attendance must be taken in every class period. “If a student chooses to walk out they will be ineligible to participate in any athletics or extracurricular activities (for that day),” the message stated. Silverado students who walked out Wednesday were marked tardy if they returned late for class and absent if they did not return, a district spokeswoman said. A second national student walkout over gun violence is scheduled for April 20, the 19th anniversary of the deadly shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado.
A new forecast for the Colorado River says the outlook for the coming year is bleak. The National Weather Service predicts the river will flow at about 54% of its average volume from April to July. That’s when the river usually swells with snowmelt from the Rockies and other ranges, but precipitation this winter has been well below normal across the region. There’s still plenty of time for conditions to improve. The river basin tends to accumulate much of its snowpack in January, February and March. Lake Mead ended 2017 almost 2 feet higher than a year ago, as use of Colorado River water by Nevada, Arizona and California hit its lowest level since 1992. The lake can use all the help it can get. Its surface has dropped more than 130 feet since drought started in 2000. Projections for the lake are almost certain to get worse.
The Wrangler National Finals Rodeo has returned to Las Vegas. The 10-day sporting event, which kicks off Thursday at the Thomas & Mack Center, is expected to bring more than 170,000 people to the city, generating a frenzy among hotels to lasso in the lucrative crowd. Casinos are aiming to corral guests by offering rodeo packages that include meals and tickets, hosting top country singers and sporting events. Many of the visitors for rodeo week come from California, Texas, Montana, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Colorado. More than two dozen country singers will perform over the next two weeks, including George Strait at T-Mobile Arena, Cody Johnson at the South Point and Dwight Yoakam at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
Nevada’s first month of recreational pot sales raked in nearly twice as much money as other states. Nevada dispensaries made more than $27 million. Colorado and Oregon each sold about $14 million in marijuana during their respective first months of sales. “We came out of the gate like a shotgun.” Matt Morgan, CEO of Reef Dispensaries. Nevada’s first month of sales generated $3.6 million in taxes.