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Nevada’s state high school basketball tournament deserves a showcase setting

There is genuine charm to Valley. It’s centrally located, it boasts the best high school court in Las Vegas, and those brick walls adorned with ...

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State title preview? Bishop Gorman basketball outlasts Coronado, 62-58

The Bishop Gorman basketball team prevailed 62-58 over Coronado on Saturday in a Big City Showdown that lived up to its billing, with the game ...

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A’s Player of the Month: Las Vegas High’s Sariyah Johnson

The first time Sariyah Johnson met her basketball coach at Las Vegas High, the eighth grader started to cry.

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Preseason top-10: Gorman basketball sits atop a deep field of contenders

The high school basketball season in Nevada could follow a familiar script: Bishop Gorman, the two-time defending state champions and perennial powerhouse, fending off a ...

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15 titles later, Centennial’s Weitz still shaping the game and her players

Karen Weitz is this year’s Hank Greenspun Lifetime Achievement recipient. The award, given to Weitz during Monday’s Sun Standout Awards show, recognizes outstanding contributions to ...

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Jett Washington takes over down the stretch, leads Bishop Gorman basketball to state title

It was Gorman coaching legend Grant Rice’s 15th overall championship. Earlier in the playoffs he hit a milestone of 600 wins ...

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Big shot brings home title No. 15 for Centennial girls

For the better part of a decade it seemed the Centennial girls basketball team was a lock for the state championship, but the outcome of ...

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Coach’s vision sets Mojave on path to title showdown with Gorman

KeJuan Clark grabbed a pen and piece of paper and started writing. Clark, then the new Mojave High School basketball coach, jotted a list of ...

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Bishop Gorman boys back in state title game behind Nick Jefferson's double-double

Coming out of halftime with a 29-17 lead, the Bishop Gorman boys’ basketball team was ready to put away Desert Pines in Wednesday’s state semifinal ...

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Underdog Silverado soars into semifinals of boys’ state basketball playoffs

Some will say the Silverado High School basketball team doesn’t belong in today’s large-school state semifinals. But the Skyhawks will enter the semifinals with a ...

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Late rally helps Coronado basketball down Bishop Gorman in battle of state's top teams

A regular season high school basketball game Saturday between defending state champion Bishop Gorman and state runner-up Coronado was considered a battle of the state’s ...

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UNLV basketball flunks first conference test at Boise State

UNLV was dealt harsh dose of Mountain West reality on Tuesday, as conference contender Boise State handed Kevin Kruger’s squad an 81-59 defeat that was ...

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NCAA-bound Lady Rebels coach, like her father, fueled by competitive drive

Coach Lindy La Rocque is greeted with a text message when she picks up her phone after every UNLV women’s basketball game. The message is ...

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Chalk up another win for Liberty in basketball rivalry with Gorman

The basketball players on the Liberty High School bench were on their feet tonight in the final seconds of the Patriots 72-65 win over Bishop ...

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Gonzaga's Julian Strawther gets dreamlike moment in Las Vegas

Someone called me a number of years ago and persuaded me to go watch the Silvestri Middle School basketball team play. They were convinced the ...

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UNLV signee Rob Whaley’s transformation into a top recruit

Two years ago, Rob Whaley weighed in at more than 320 pounds, leading most Division I programs to question his discipline, his work ethic and ...

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Liberty basketball again beats Bishop Gorman — this time by 23 points

Defending state champion Liberty made a statement with a 78-55 win over perennial power Gorman in a highly anticipated rematch of last year’s title game. ...

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Female Athlete of the Year: Aaliyah Gayles, Spring Valley basketball

Aaliyah Gayles came into the season as the most decorated basketball player in Southern Nevada, and somehow raised her profile and level of play even ...

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Game of the Year: Bishop Gorman beats Liberty in thrilling double-overtime basketball affair

This late-December night of basketball had a little bit of everything: multiple buzzer beaters, two overtimes, a packed gym to watch undefeated rivals square off, ...

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Las Vegas archbishop defends Pope Leo against Trump's social media attacks

Archbishop George Leo Thomas of Las Vegas is defending Pope Leo XIV after President Donald Trump criticized the first American-born leader of the Catholic Church ...

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From front lines to ballot box: How retired Marine helps overseas Nevadans vote

Mark Wlaschin left for work early on this morning, well before sunrise, making the familiar commute through the dark Carson City streets to the Nevada ...

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Las Vegas’ tourism slump shadows Trump’s return to Nevada

As President Donald Trump seeks to promote his No Tax on Tips policy during a roundtable discussion downtown, small businesses worry fewer people even have ...

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A's Player of the Month: Sierra Vista's Amaya Wusstig

The middle school flag football team needed a quarterback, so the coach lined all the girls up and had them throw the ball.

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Nevada cannabis leaders push for Strip integration to rescue falling tax revenue

Riana Durrett, director of the UNLV Cannabis Policy Institute and vice chair of the Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board, says the decline in legal sales doesn’t ...

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Resorts World releasing 100,000 ladybugs for Earth Day tradition

Resorts World Las Vegas will mark Earth Day with its annual ladybug release, a tradition the resort has maintained since opening in 2021 as part ...

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Poll finds Trump’s economic policies eroding Latino support in Nevada, key states

Latino voters in key battleground states, including Nevada, are turning against President Donald Trump and Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterms, according to new polling ...

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Frozen Four in Las Vegas: Denver beats Wisconsin 2-1 for its 11th national title

Denver has thrived in the uncomfortable, refusing to panic even when the opponent is dominating play.

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CCSD Police track alarming rise in child vehicle crash injuries

Local police data confirm what anyone who has spent time near a Las Vegas-area school during morning drop-off or afternoon dismissal already suspects: E-scooters and ...

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UNLV basketball picks up transfer from Florida State

Guard Cam Miles, who averaged 5.4 points and 1.7 assists per game this season at Florida State, is transferring to UNLV basketball, he announced on ...

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Eichel scores in OT, Knights clinch playoff berth with 3-2 win over Avs

Jack Eichel scored 1:19 into overtime, and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 on Saturday night to secure a playoff berth.

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No Tax on Tips meets inflation concerns in Trump’s Las Vegas stop

President Donald Trump boasted Thursday that Nevada waiters, casino dealers, bartenders and other tipped workers had received “the biggest tax refunds of their entire lives,” ...