Story Archive

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  Mixed Martial Arts

  From 1 to 100: UFC through the years

  Thursday, July 9, 2009

  Over the past 16 years, UFC has gone from a little-known league promoting "human cockfighting" to a mega-power in the sports world worth more than a billion dollars. Here's how it happened:

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  Holly Madison to serve as honorary Octagon girl

  Tuesday, July 7, 2009

  Former Playboy model Holly Madison will be making yet another costume change in Las Vegas.

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  Sports

  Dancing with the welterweights

  Wednesday, April 29, 2009

  A thong, diet pills and too many verbal jabs to tally, if this Saturday’s action inside the ring is half as memorable as the antics leading up to the mega-fight, boxing fans are in for a treat.

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  Talk is cheap, UFC champs ready to back up words in 'superfight'

  Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009

  Everyone knows the key to a good fight is the trash talk beforehand. And this Saturday’s megafight at the MGM Grand has had plenty of verbal barbs.

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  CES

  A tale of two conventions

  Monday, Jan. 12, 2009

  Snoop Dogg’s classic hit “Gin and Juice” played on the iPod as four Asian businessmen crowded around the Sergio booth at the Consumer Electronics Show Friday afternoon to check out the company’s iSpin, a mini mixing device on the small scale of a DJ’s turntables. Less than a football field away inside the Sands Expo Convention Center, the same rap song was pulsating through much larger speakers and another group of salespeople were pedaling their wares.

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  A&E

  Techies know how to party, for charity

  Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009

  Adult starlets were scattered all across Las Vegas on Friday night at various soirees and nightclubs for pre-AVN award fun, but the techies from the other convention in town seemed to have more substantial star power. While Diana Ross was belting out tunes at the annual Monster Cable’s Retailer Awards, a handful of other celebs mingled with invite-only Consumer Electronics Show attendees at the PC.com/Intel party at LAX at the Luxor.

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  New Years

  NYE Blog: Craziness abounds on Las Vegas Strip

  Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008

  OK, so it is officially Dec. 31 in the world’s craziest party city (or NYE for all 10 of you drunks who happen to stumble upon this blog), and I’m already on deadline....

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  Entertainment

  Celebrities play a(round) with Timberlake

  Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

  As the gathered crowd of a few hundred waited for Justin Timberlake to tee off on the first hole, Ellen DeGeneres pestered him with a bullhorn.

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  What happens outside of the NBA Summer League, stays off the record (almost)

  Tuesday, July 22, 2008