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Women returned at the Grammys on Sunday as female acts won album of the year and best new artist, while rap also triumphed, with Childish Gambinos This Is America becoming the first rap-based song to win record and song of the year.
Journie Augmon, now in her sixth year of competitive basketball, is averaging 9.5 points, an area-best 12.3 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game for the Patriots, who breezed through Southeast League play without a loss to earn a double bye in the Desert Region tournament.
“The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part” was easily the weekend’s top ticket-seller in theaters over the weekend, but the film’s estimated $35 million haul came well shy of expectations.
UNLV is in a battle for the top five in the Mountain West, which would give the Rebels a first-round bye in next month’s conference tournament. The Rebels play Fresno State at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
UNLV junior shortstop Bryson Stott was one of 55 of the nation’s top amateur baseball players named to the preseason Golden Spikes Award watch list, USA Baseball announced.
Zaon Collins had 10 of his 18 points in the second overtime to lead top-ranked Bishop Gorman to a 74-68 road win over second-ranked Clark.
Tickets will go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. for the third installment of Whiskey in the Wilderness, the food and whiskey event that takes some of Las Vegas’ top chefs out of the kitchen and into the great outdoors.
Virginia slid deeper into political turmoil Wednesday when another top Democrat — Attorney General Mark Herring — admitted putting on blackface in the 1980s, when he was a college student.