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The Polls on Mayweather vs. Mosley

LOS ANGELES (April 26) - The polls on the internet asking "Who R U Picking?" for Mayweather vs. Mosley are producing very interesting results. With less than a week to go, the buzz has spread across all media platforms breaking the general boxing barriers and into mainstream sports, entertainment, political and many other sites. See what people are saying on who they think will be victorious on May 1 when Floyd "Money" Mayweather and Sugar Shane Mosley meet in the ring at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in a mega-fight which will be produced and distributed live by HBO-Pay-Per-View® beginning at 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST:



Sugar Shane Mosley picked up 3% of East Coast votes and 2% of West Coast votes since we last tallied. The data still points to Mayweather dominating the East Coast voting, while Mosley still has the West Coast fans on his side.



Mayweather Mosley

East Coast 59% 41%

West Coast 46% 54%




A more in depth look at the country's top cities shows that Floyd Mayweather increased votes in Houston, Dallas and Phoenix while Sugar Shane Mosley gained votes in the seven other cities that have been tracked:



Mayweather Mosley

Los Angeles 44% 56%

New York 54% 46%

DC 67% 33%

Miami 63% 37%

Chicago 58% 42%

Houston 49% 51%

San Francisco 41% 59%

Dallas 49% 51%

Atlanta 66% 34%

Phoenix 51% 49%

Bridge Over Boulder Dam Nearing Completion

After being awed by Yosemite, Esther Hanner drove alongside a man-made wonder in the making just outside Boulder City.

“We were on our way back to Nashville and we came around one of those hairpin turns at Hoover Dam and looked up and saw just those columns they had up at that time,” she recalls. “It’s amazing and good to know that people can still get together to build something incredible like that bridge.”

Ever since that June day in 2007, she has been following the progress of the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge from afar — via the Internet almost exclusively. She has been surprised and disappointed that she has seen so little national news coverage about it.

“The nation needs to know about this,” she says.

For a region that prides itself on its self-promotion and neon “Look at this!” attitude, there has been little capitalization so far on the bridge that provokes some form of “Look at that!” from just about everyone who sees it.

The Federal Highway Administration expects contractors to complete construction by Nov. 1. The span will divert all traffic off the dam, bring long-haul truckers over Black Canyon for the first time in almost a decade and should reduce travel times for tourists — unless those tourists want to stop to marvel at the bridge.

Tourism experts figure a lot of them will, and tour guides say it has the potential to be half of a one-two combination that’s a guaranteed knockout. It’s right next to one of the seven wonders of the industrial world, after all.

To read more and see pictures from the Las Vegas Sun, click the link below.


http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/apr/14/bridge-part-journey-and-part-destination/

UNLV Athletics Budget in Trouble

LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Athletic director Jim Livengood said he hopes eventually to operate the UNLV athletic department independently of state and university funding.

John Locher/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

UNLV's athletic department is projecting a $1.93 million deficit this fiscal year that will drain nearly its entire reserve fund, and athletic director Jim Livengood faces some tough choices as the likelihood of further cuts looms.

Livengood plans to reorganize the department. Although he said no decisions have been made, Livengood has not ruled out furloughs, salary freezes or layoffs.

"Right now, I'm looking at everything," said Livengood, hired in December after spending 16 years as Arizona's athletic director. "I'd like to get away from (layoffs). I just don't know that we can."

UNLV estimates that it will end its fiscal year June 30 with $26.06 million in revenues and $27.99 million in expenses.

The $2.07 million reserve fund that the department had at the beginning of the fiscal year is projected to drop to $135,415.

The Thomas & Mack Center is expected to have $1.45 million in reserves, and the athletic department could draw upon that money.

Rhett Vertrees, UNLV associate vice president for financial services, said he was optimistic about increasing the reserve fund for the next fiscal year because of money-making football games at home against Wisconsin and at West Virginia. The Wisconsin game should sell out, and UNLV will receive $750,000, all but $10,000 in cash, from West Virginia. UNR, another top draw, also visits.

Those games will help a football program expected to end the current fiscal year $3.11 million in the red.


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