Consider the ram, and its significance in the life of Blake Sartini. It is the official animal of his home state — Nevada. When he hunts big game, Sartini often tracks the powerful and elusive desert bighorn sheep.
The contract that keeps the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, where it has been hosted since it was corralled from Oklahoma City in 1985, is due to expire after the 2014 event.
MGM Resorts has asked Cirque du Soleil to replace its show “Viva Elvis” at the Aria by the end of 2012, citing poor ticket sales. The move is the first time that the Canadian company, which has come to dominate the big-production showrooms on the Strip, has been asked to shut a show since arriving here in 1993 with its first permanent show, “Mystere” at Treasure Island.
If you know Dave Rice, the answer is self-evident. But you ask anyway, because the response flips open his character:
Have you ever gambled?
The 43-year-old head coach of UNLV’s men’s basketball team, a man who has spent much of his adult life in Las Vegas, grins slightly. He blinks, as if waiting one extra count to deliver the obvious:
“No.”
George Maloof seems forever to be looking around, pacing through his own Palms resort and competing properties with his head on a swivel, checking out everything from a casino’s carpet patterns to the fixtures in the men’s room.
Motorcycles, cannons, cars, even Super Bowl rings have been sold or pawned at Gold & Silver Pawn, home of the History Channel’s hit reality show, “Pawn Stars.” Bloody bayonets from the Civil War share space with unopened bottles of Dom Perignon from the 1920s, vintage Coke machines from the 1950s and action figures dating to the 1930s.
You spot the silver Imani Uomo suit with the purple-and-white striped tie and matching kerchief and ask, “How much would I pay for this, retail?” The gentleman standing a few feet from the suit, who knows all you need to know about the garments, says, “You can’t.”
Dignitaries expected to take part the groundbreaking ceremonies for the $70 million brain institute project include LRBI founder Larry Ruvo; Gehry; U.S. Sens. Harry Reid and John Ensign; U.S. Reps. Shelley Berkley, Jon Porter and Dean Heller, Gov. Jim Gibbons, Mayor Oscar Goodman and former Gov. Kenny Guinn. (Also invited were the state Board of Regents and Chancellor Jim Rogers, which should make for some challenging seating assignments.)
The Billboard Music Awards were at MGM Grand Garden Arena tonight, with a tribute to Whitney Houston and a show-closing medley by Stevie Wonder highlighting the ABC special.
“Oh, we have done the research, and 75 percent of all household decisions are made by wives or girlfriends,” said Jonathan Segal, the Britain-based CEO of the One Group. “And 100 percent of guys think they are in control, so women have learned exactly how to make the decisions while making us think we’re making them.”
Liza Minnelli enthusiastically, and often whimsically, sang a series of classic tunes, including "Cabaret" and "New York, New York," to an adoring audience.
Michael Gaughan has been racing competitively for 40 years, or even longer, and continues to win trophies, his latest being a Vintage class title in the NORRA Mexican 1000.
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