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November 22, 2009

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What might result from a national airing of Ensign’s dirty laundry
Sunday, November 22, 2009
COMMENTARY:
Mark down 8:35 p.m. PT Monday: That’s when the plug will be pulled on John Ensign’s grand delusion, the moment, as the Wachowski brothers might appreciate, that the Matrix is revealed and the grotesque reality becomes unavoidable.
Health care decisions should be the peoples’
Sunday, November 22, 2009
BRIAN GREENSPUN: WHERE I STAND:
How’s this for timing? Here was Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, ready to unveil his long-awaited Senate health care bill — a bill that, while it has drawn the usual complaints from the usual suspects, hasn’t been dismissed as unworkable or unreasonable. And then, unexpected, was an announcement about detection of breast cancer that suddenly overshadowed the entire health care debate.
Las Vegan Matt Jaskol, right, pushes his kart toward an inspection area after a practice round this
Schumacher adds star power to go-kart finals’ horsepower
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Ron Kantowski:
When I heard from an old racing pal that Michael Schumacher would be racing go-karts on the parking lot at the Rio this weekend, I told him I wasn’t interested, because I was covering Tiger Woods’ putt-putt match against Phil Mickelson. Then it was over to the Laughing Jackalope where U2 was playing a benefit for a school chum who had lost it all by hitting a hard 16. And after that, Pele said he’d give me a chance to get even on the foosball table.
The Elevator: Sanford edition
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Sounds like an old Saturday morning cartoon, doesn’t it? When Steve “Chopper” Jones and freshmen Anthony Marshall and Justin Hawkins checked into the game in the second half against Nevada-Reno on Wednesday night, UNLV trailed by 12 points. When they went back to the end of the bench, the Rebels led by seven. Heavens to Murgatroyd, Snagglepuss!
Officially, they want to be regulated, but ...
Friday, November 20, 2009
THE INSIDE STRAIGHT: Unofficially, large online poker sites have the best of both worlds
The state of the online poker business in America is ... still muddled.
Why having 10 candidates doesn’t help GOP
Friday, November 20, 2009
There was this moment during the first forum of the 2010 U.S. Senate race Thursday that encapsulates the Republican Party’s problem and could undermine its unprecedented opportunity to excise the Senate majority leader from the D.C. landscape:
Tina Kunzer-Murphy has decided not to pursue the athletic director job at UNLV.
Tina Kunzer-Murphy won't be next UNLV athletic director
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Ron Kantowski: Kunzer-Murphy might make a great athletic director for UNLV, but now is not the time
Tina Kunzer-Murphy is out of the running to become UNLV’s next athletic director before the real running even begins.
Ralston awaits political theater of Gibbons’ Last Gasp
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Take this prediction to the bank: The next session of the Nevada Legislature will not commence as scheduled on Feb. 7, 2011, but sometime next year, perhaps as early as January.
Darvin Moon, left, a 45-year-old logger from Maryland, holds up the arm of Joe Cada, a 21-year old I
World Series of Poker shows new breed of poker pros
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Popularity of game has led to legit card players popping up from all lines of work
The thumbnail sketches of the two ultimate survivors at last week’s World Series of Poker final table were familiar to anyone who follows the game.
Two paths to improvement for UNLV's football team
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
RON KANTOWSKI : One way, but maybe not the only way, is to spend millions more
The hills are alive with the sound of ... well, that isn’t exactly music now, is it? It’s the cacophony of UNLV football fans suggesting cures for what has ailed the program since the advent of the face mask and two platoons.
Manny Pacquiao, right, is sent to a neutral corner by referee Kenny Bayless after Miguel Cotto goes
Talk turns to Manny Pacquiao fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Monday, November 16, 2009
‘Whole world’ wants to see it, Pacquiao’s trainer says
Grandiose pronouncements were uttered about when and where negotiations would begin for a proposed fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Running the state revenue structure meeting through a truth filter
Sunday, November 15, 2009
COMMENTARY:
If only someone spiked the java with truth serum before Thursday’s meeting of the Subcommittee to Conduct a Review of Nevada’s Revenue Structure, which will appoint members of the Nevada Vision Stakeholder Group (what’s in a name?).
More evidence of a broken tax system
Friday, November 13, 2009
The Pew report, though thorough and insightful, breaks no new ground for those familiar with Nevada’s financial cataclysm.
UNLV basketball radio announcers Jon Sadler, left, and Robert Smith call the Rebels preseason game a
Gondo’s pal tries to fill void on Rebels air
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Ron Kantowski:
The final chapter of Glen Gondrezick’s career as a UNLV Rebel was written Tuesday night, 104 feet beneath where his jersey hangs from the rafters at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Boxer Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines is surrounded by photographers on arrival Tuesday at the MGM
One for the ages
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Pacquiao-Cotto match drawing international attention, might set pay-per-view record
When Manny Pacquiao was hailed as the hottest boxer in the sport at Wednesday’s prefight news conference at the MGM Grand, it was not just lip service.
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