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Carson High School wrapped up its spring season Thursday afternoon with the annual 7-on-7 passing scrimmage."(The camp) went well," said coach Blair Roman, who has guided the Senators to two straig...

The summer version of the baseball rivalry between Douglas and Carson started Friday night, and it's nowhere near as heated as a regular-season game.Part of it is because graduating seniors don't p...

The Nevada Wolf Pack walked all over the New Mexico State Aggies Thursday afternoon.The Wolf Pack worked 13 walks off six Aggies' pitchers and cruised to a 15-4 victory in seven innings to stay ali...

Sports fodder for a Friday morning . . . The Fallon Greenwave's phenomenal state tournament success last week is one of the best stories to hit Nevada high school sports in a very long time. The Gr...

When it came time for Carson High's softball team to score runs, it was veteran Moriah Lane and newcomer Jen Purcell who often stepped up with clutch hits.Lane and Purcell were rewarded for their e...

Six Carson High baseball players were named to the all-Northern 4A baseball squad.Outfielder Chance Quilling and pitcher Colby Blueberg were first-team selections, while Nick Domitrovich was a seco...

The 18th annual Reno Knights Memorial Day Tournament gets under way with full slate of games.There are 12 teams in the tournament, six in each division. each team is guaranteed five games.The Carso...

The Carson Aces, a 13-year-old Babe Ruth, topped Walker River 11-8 in the championship game on May 22.The Aces lost two of three in pool play, but battled back to win the championship trophy.In the...

LAS VEGAS - Dayton High's Kathie Arias completed her three-peat by winning her third straight discus title at the NIAA 3A State Track & Field Championships Saturday at Del Sol High School.Arias, wh...

Being a huge San Francisco Giants fan, I'm ecstatic with how they are currently playing despite key injuries to Pablo Sandoval and Mark DeRosa.Sandoval was the Giants' best hitter when he went down...

Somebody is going to leave Charlotte Motor Speedway a million dollars richer tonight - $1,024,658 to be exact. Jimmie Johnson, the only driver to have won the event twice in the last 12 years, is l...

Sports fodder for a Friday morning ... The Big Ten is considering a proposal to pay the living expenses of student athletes. They say that $2,000-$5,000 is needed to cover clothing and transportati...

Eric Garcia was disappointed with the way his junior season ended. The Carson High pole vaulter suffered a hamstring injury late in the year, and he wasn't at full strength when he vaulted 13-fe...

Kathie Arias will have just a few things on her mind when she competes at the NIAA 3A State Track & Field Championships Friday and Saturday at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas.Consider the followin...

A TV reporter is grateful that Tampa Bay Ray's third baseman Evan Longoria has fast reflexes:

It's time for my yearly rant at the high school track coaches in Northern Nevada. These guys need to wake up and smell the coffee.My gripe is the way the 4A runs its regional meet. In the 4A, the t...

RENO - Despite some putting issues on the front side, Carson High's Garrett Gingell shot a first-round 79 at the NIAA 4A State Golf Championships Monday at Hidden Valley Country Club.Gingell is cur...

After having the first stage canceled yesterday due to late-spring snow, it now looks like the second stage of the Amgen Tour of California bike race that was supposed to kick off today from Squaw Valley has been moved to Nevada City instead, where the annual event visited last year.

Members of the Western Nevada baseball team were scattered in and around the third-base dugout, most sitting in stunned silence. Some cried and some were able to hold back tears.Gone was the 22-gam...

FERNLEY - Dayton High will send 17 athletes - 13 girls and four boys - to next weekend's NIAA 3A State Track & Field Championships at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas."For the most part, we got the...

DAYTON - Dayton High's baseball team has its back to the wall - again.The Dust Devils, who won the Lahontan League regular-season title, are one game from elimination after dropping a 6-4 decision ...

The drought is over for WNC first baseman Sean Potkay.Potkay, who had gone homerless for the past 34 games, hit two solo homers and drove in the game-winning run with a bases-loaded walk to lead th...

Thursday night's Nevada Wolf Pack-Hawaii Rainbows baseball game at Peccole Park came down to one frustrating, irritating, aggravating, baffling, seemingly never-ending series of events that Gary Po...

Western Nevada College, the SWAC regular-season champion, closes out its outstanding regular season with a four-game series against second-place Salt Lake Community College starting today.The teams...

Carson High's 8-7 win over Bishop Manogue Thursday afternoon at Ron McNutt Field certainly wasn't pretty and won't earn the Senators any style points, but that didn't matter to coach Cody Farnworth...

DAYTON - The Dayton Dust Devils won the Lahontan League title by sweeping a doubleheader from Fernley Thursday, 18-8 and 12-1.The sweep gives Dayton a 12-2 league record and a home playoff series a...

Sports fodder for a Friday morning ... If the San Francisco 49ers wanted Colin Kaepernick so badly, why did they wait so long to pick him? Were they confident nobody else wanted him in the first or...

RENO - Chance Quilling will remember the sixth inning of Wednesday's game at Galena for a long time. Quilling ripped a two-run single to highlight a six-run inning and then in the bottom of the inn...

The Twins have won three of four games in the early stages of the Carson City Little League Major Division season.The Twins beat the Red Sox 12-4, lost to the Orioles 12-6, beat the Yankees 11-1 an...

Western Nevada College claimed its third regular-season Scenic West Athletic Conference title by sweeping College of Southern Idaho, 12-2 and 3-2, Saturday afternoon at John L. Harvey Field.WNC imp...