May 4, 2024

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Hill, Hanifin heroics push Vegas to Game 7 showdown in Dallas

Hill, Hanifin heroics push Vegas to Game 7 showdown in Dallas

Posted 2:00 a.m.

A 23-save performance by goaltender Adin Hill gave Vegas a 2-0 win over Dallas on Friday at T-Mobile Arena. The Golden Knights staved off elimination, tying the series at three games ...

Father and daughter duo shared one class and will be graduating together this Saturday, May 4th at Nevada State University. Trinity Kirkland, 22, majoring in English with a minor in creative writing, graduating Summa Cum Laude and Daryl Kirkland, 54, majoring in communications and graduating Magna Cum Laude in Henderson, Nevada on May 1, 2024.

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Father and daughter duo shared one class and will be graduating together this Saturday, May 4th at Nevada State University. Trinity Kirkland, 22, majoring in English with a minor in creative writing, graduating Summa Cum Laude and Daryl Kirkland, 54, majoring in communications and graduating ...

Father-daughter duo forges path together, will graduate from Nevada State today

Posted 2:00 a.m.

By Grace Da Rocha

Trinity Kirkland has done everything with her father, Daryl, for as long as she can remember — from catching early screenings of superhero movies to joining him ...

Weekend wagers: Bets on the Kentucky Derby and seven other sports

Weekend wagers: Bets on the Kentucky Derby and seven other sports

Posted 2:00 a.m.

I’m going to keep it simple for the 150th version of America’s biggest horse race — one horse to win from the local fixed-odds market and one head-to-head matchup offered by sports books. ...

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The Kentucky Derby is turning 150 years old. It’s survived world wars and controversies of all kinds

In this May 4, 1968, file photo, Dancer's Image, jockey Bob Ussery up, crosses the finish line to win the 94th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. America’s longest continuously held sporting event turns 150 years old Saturday. The Kentucky Derby has survived two world wars, the Depression and pandemics, including COVID-19 in 2020, when it ran in virtual silence without the usual crowd of 150,000.

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In this May 4, 1968, file photo, Dancer's Image, jockey Bob Ussery up, crosses the finish line to win the 94th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. America’s longest continuously held sporting event turns 150 years old Saturday. The Kentucky ...

Posted 9:48 p.m.

As a record crowd cheered, American Pharoah rallied from behind and took aim at his remaining two rivals in the stretch. The bay colt and jockey Victor Espinoza surged to the lead with a furlong to go and thundered across the finish line a length ahead in the 2015 Kentucky ...

Genre-busting musician dares to try to heal nation’s divide

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