Washington Nationals phenom Stephen Strasburg will be shut down for the next few days, according to a report Wednesday by Nats Insider.
The team has not officially ruled the rookie out of his next scheduled start – Sunday against the Philadelph…

Amir Garrett was taking a breather on the bench Friday as teammates on his Belmont Shore AAU basketball team perfectly executed a fast break midway through the first half of a double-digit victory against Team Detroit in the Las Vegas Fab 48 at Bishop Gorman High. When the fast break resulted in an easy dunk, Garrett stood in excitement, slapped a chair and yelled, ‘

If exhibition basketball is all about thrilling the crowd, then Derrick Rose deserves a gold medal for his performance Saturday night in Team USA’

In recent years, many have referred to the NBA as a point guard-driven league.
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When BYU guard Jimmer Fredette worked out for NBA team after NBA team in selling himself as a potential draft pick this summer, he constantly was left guessing. Rarely – if ever – did any of those doing the evaluating give him open critiques or pointers on what he needed to improve if he went back to school. Now, he’ll learn firsthand this week what those within several NBA franchises wouldn’t tell him.

Every year, the NBA Summer League is full of unproven rookies and veteran free agents hoping to catch someone’s eye, helping lead to fulfilling the dream of landing on a real NBA roster. Typically, each team only has maybe one roster spot to gun for. Oddly enough, that’s not the case for the team considered now to be the odds-on favorite to win next year’s NBA title. For the Miami Heat, the number is undefined, but it’s clearly caught the attention of those on the team’s summer league squad, which opened up its 5-game Las Vegas schedule on Sunday night with a thrilling 77-72 triumph over New Orleans at the Cox Pavilion.

The U.S. national team will feature plenty of fresh faces following the announcement that no members from the 2008 Olympic gold-medal squad will play for the American team headed to the FIBA World Championships, according to usabasketball.com . …

One UNLV basketball player fails a drug test at the NCAA Tournament. He’ll never wear the scarlet and gray again. A Rebel guard is dismissed from the team following a drunk-driving arrest in 2008. He wasn’t even the legal drinking age.

A local group of middle-school-aged soccer players nearly became the first Nevada boys team to win a U.S. Youth Soccer Regional Championship on Sunday in Albuquerque, N.M. The Under-13 Las Vegas Sports Academy (formerly FC Las Vegas) boys team lost in the Region IV Finals, 4-2, to the LAFC Chelsea, an academy squad based out of Southern California.

Each week this summer, UNLV beat writer Ryan Greene will have a 10-minute question-and-answer session with a member of the Rebels’ men’s basketball team. This week’s installment features sophomore Kansas transfer Quintrell Thomas.