Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV) articles from January 2002

Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV) archives from January 2002

Economy Tops List of Las Vegas-Area Business Stories for 2001.
January 1, 2002

Star-spangled party.(news)
January 1, 2002... BYLINE: JAN MOLLER, NATALIE PATTON,REVIEW-JOURNAL Hundreds of thousands of revelers put aside fears and rang in the new year Monday beneath a moonlit sky and a spectacular fireworks display that spanned the Las Vegas Valley. Officials...

Videotape prompts police inquiry.(news)
January 1, 2002... BYLINE: GLENN PUITREVIEW-JOURNAL Two Las Vegas policemen are on paid leave after an officer was caught on videotape punching a handcuffed man in the head at a downtown casino. Police are investigating whether the officer's supervisor...

THE YEAR'S TOP 10 STORIES: Terrorist Attacks Dominate 2001 Events.(news)
January 1, 2002... BYLINE: JAN MOLLERREVIEW-JOURNAL A bloody gang war claimed more than a dozen young lives, and the political wars over Yucca Mountain raged on. Harry Reid continued his rise up the U.S. Senate's political ladder, and Michael Mack's...

CONVENTION CENTER: Henderson to consider raising fees.(news)
January 1, 2002... BYLINE: CHRIS DI EDOARDOREVIEW-JOURNAL The Henderson City Council will consider Wednesday whether to increase fees at the city's convention center. And later this year, it is expected to decide whether to expand the 20-year-old...

THE YEAR'S TOP 10: Hire Education.(sports)
January 1, 2002... BYLINE: JIM FOSSUMREVIEW-JOURNAL The tragic events of Sept. 11 changed the complexion of the world forever, even impacting the sports scene in Southern Nevada. However, 2001 was a relatively uneventful year in comparison to past years in...

Scoring spree netsBanks conferenceplayer of week.(sports)
January 1, 2002... BYLINE: STEVE CARPREVIEW-JOURNAL For the second time in three weeks, UNLV has the Mountain West Conference's Player of the Week. Junior guard Marcus Banks received the honor Monday after posting a career-high 31-points Sunday to lead...

JUNIOR MIDDLEWEIGHTS: De La Hoya-Vargas planned for Las Vegas.(sports)
January 1, 2002... BYLINE: ROYCE FEOURREVIEW-JOURNAL Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said Monday that he was confident the Oscar De La Hoya-Fernando Vargas junior middleweight showdown will be May 4 in Las Vegas. Arum said that Mandalay Bay is the leading...

BEST OF 2001: TOP RESTAURANTS - Picasso.(living)
January 1, 2002... BYLINE: HEIDI KNAPP RINELLAREVIEW-JOURNAL Whenever someone asks me to name my favorite restaurant -- or favorite Italian restaurant or favorite Thai restaurant or favorite seafood restaurant -- I tend to hedge. It's not a...

BEST OF 2001: TOP TELEVISION - 'The Sopranos'.(living)
January 1, 2002... BYLINE: KEN WHITEREVIEW-JOURNAL Amid a sea of unfunny sitcoms ("The Ellen Show"), cheesy reality TV ("Temptation Island") and sheer boredom ("The Education of Max Bickford"), a few quality TV shows floated to the top in 2001. 1. "The...

BEST OF 2001: TOP CONCERTS - Macy Gray.(living)
January 1, 2002... BYLINE: DOUG ELFMANREVIEW-JOURNAL bviously, I didn't see every concert in Las Vegas in 2001. I caught only close to 100 acts, mostly headliners but also openers. That's why I prefer to call these my favorites. 1. Macy Gray...

BEST OF 2001: TOP MOVIES - 'Moulin Rouge'.(living)
January 1, 2002... BYLINE: CAROL CLINGREVIEW-JOURNAL It's deja vu all over again. This time last year, I grumpily opined that 2000 qualified as the most lackluster movie year in recent memory. Little did I dream that 2001 would turn out to be even...

BEST OF 2001: TOP SHOWS - 'O'.(living)
January 1, 2002... BYLINE: MIKE WEATHERFORDREVIEW-JOURNAL While Las Vegas marked time in its quest to go over the top once again, the year's best new shows saved the day by thinking small. High-concept, big-budget productions missed on both sides of the...

YOUTH SPOTLIGHT: Several Boulder Dam Area Council scouts earn Eagle rank.(living)
January 1, 2002... BYLINE: DEANA DI DIOREVIEW-JOURNAL Eighteen young men from the Boulder Dam Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America have recently become Eagle Scouts: Jason Barber, 17, is the son of James and Debra Barber. He is a member of Troop No....

Philharmonic ably backs tenor Bocelli.(living)
January 1, 2002... BYLINE: JULIA OSBORNEREVIEW-JOURNAL One thing is for sure: Superstar Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli's voice can make grown men cry. Any doubt of that fact was erased completely at the end of the two-hour-plus concert at Mandalay Bay Saturday...

YEAR IN REVIEW: Economy tops 2001 list.(business)(Review)
January 1, 2002... BYLINE: REVIEW-JOURNAL Bill Clinton's battle cry in the 1992 presidential campaign -- "It's the economy, stupid" -- could just as easily be used to describe the top Las Vegas business story for 2001. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...

Nevada Ranks Fourth at Growth Rate for Businesses Owned by Women.
January 2, 2002

CHIP MAXFIELD: Tempered Ambition.(news)
January 2, 2002... BYLINE: FRANK GEARYREVIEW-JOURNAL Political fledgling Chip Maxfield took office a year ago with an ambitious agenda aimed at arming residents of the northwest Las Vegas Valley against unbridled growth. After trouncing troubled...

New Year's Eve uplifting for police.(news)
January 2, 2002... BYLINE: FRANK GEARYREVIEW-JOURNAL New Year's Eve celebrations proved less rowdy than prior years, and that translated into far fewer arrests downtown and on the Strip. Police made 38 arrests on the Strip and another four in downtown...

Academy's lifemay rest uponstudents' fees.(news)
January 2, 2002... BYLINE: NATALIE PATTONREVIEW-JOURNAL University of Nevada, Reno administrators have resolved in the new year to resuscitate the university's $31 million debt-ridden emergency training facility in Nevada's northeast desert. But before...

After four years of decline, Las Vegas police report increase in slayings.(news)
January 2, 2002... BYLINE: RYAN OLIVERREVIEW-JOURNAL Authorities are investigating whether a 20-year-old Las Vegas man killed an acquaintance for his Playstation 2 video game console in the valley's last reported murder arrest for 2001. The year was a busy...

ROAD WARRIOR Q & A: Walking Worries.(news)
January 2, 2002... BYLINE: MICHAEL SQUIRESREVIEW-JOURNAL This week readers want to know why pedestrians don't get more time to cross valley streets, when the jolting bumps at U.S. Highway 95 and Sahara Avenue will be fixed, and why there is no Valley View...

SHOPPING CARTS: Commission may require store action.(news)
January 2, 2002... BYLINE: FRANK GEARYREVIEW-JOURNAL Clark County commissioners today are expected to consider a new law that would require nearly 1,000 stores to corral shopping carts on their property. Commissioner Erin Kenny is pushing for the law...

RESTAURANT REPORT.(living)
January 2, 2002... BYLINE: KEN WHITEREVIEW-JOURNAL 7-Eleven, 1201 E. Sahara Ave., received 18 demerits Dec. 20. Violations included cleaners stored with food above three-compartment sink; no soap or paper towels in men's restroom; and no sanitizer buckets...

Women's business booming.(business)
January 2, 2002... BYLINE: MATTHEW CROWLEYREVIEW-JOURNAL The late '90s left women-owned Nevada businesses room to boom, as entrepreneur Lisa Hammond's Femail Creations illustrates. Over the last five years, the Las Vegas entrepreneur built Femail...

Las Vegas Casino's Owner to Change Misleading Billboard Promoting Payouts.
January 3, 2002

Judge Refuses to Seize Past-Due Assessments from Las Vegas Hotel-Casino.
January 3, 2002

Pedestrian struck three times, robbed.(news)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: J.M. KALILREVIEW-JOURNAL A 78-year-old motorist suspected of fatally striking a pedestrian on New Year's Day and then fleeing the accident scene told police Wednesday she believed a brick or a rock, not a human being, had shattered...

City, county OK land-use deal.(news)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: FRANK GEARYREVIEW-JOURNAL A divided Clark County Commission on Wednesday approved a land-use agreement with the city of Las Vegas aimed at streamlining zoning and planning in the northwest, where county-city boundaries intersect in...

Natural gas-powered buses to make debut.(news)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: MICHAEL SQUIRESREVIEW-JOURNAL Citizens Area Transit's first natural gas-powered buses will make their public debut this morning, launching an experiment that eventually could lead to a transit system completely powered by the...

VIDEOTAPE REVIEWED: Police conduct criminal inquiry.(news)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: GLENN PUITREVIEW-JOURNAL Police are conducting a criminal investigation into a videotaped incident in which a Las Vegas police officer struck a handcuffed man at a downtown casino, police and prosecutors said Wednesday. The...

City-backed Internet gaming idea alive.(news)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: JAN MOLLERREVIEW-JOURNAL Citing the need for new revenue, the City Council on Wednesday took a cautious step toward making Las Vegas the first American city to license and regulate gambling on the Internet. Voting 6-1, the...

Death penalty sought in Vigoa case.(news)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: J.M. KALILREVIEW-JOURNAL Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a Henderson man facing multiple charges in connection with the shooting deaths of two armored truck guards. The Clark County district attorney's office...

Councilman proposes billagainst liquor sales to minors.(news)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: REVIEW-JOURNAL A bill introduced Wednesday by Las Vegas Councilman Gary Reese would help police prosecute store owners and workers who sell alcohol to minors. The bill resembles a Clark County ordinance that prohibits liquor...

Official: Downtown won't lose post office.(news)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: JAN MOLLERREVIEW-JOURNAL Downtown Las Vegas still will have a post office even if a current facility is converted into a museum or cultural center, a top Las Vegas official said Wednesday. Lesa Coder, director of the Office of...

Commission OKs head of building department.(news)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: REVIEW-JOURNAL The Clark County Commission on Wednesday ratified County Manager Thom Reilly's appointment of Albert "Al" Godwin as director of the county's building department. Godwin was one of 40 applicants who responded to a...

Airport authorized to buyfingerprinting equipment.(news)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: REVIEW-JOURNAL The Clark County Commission on Wednesday authorized McCarran International Airport officials to hire three employees and buy equipment to fingerprint the nearly 10,000 workers at the airport. The move obeys a new...

HELICOPTER NOISE COMMITTEE: Lawyer's appointment delayed.(news)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: FRANK GEARYREVIEW-JOURNAL The Clark County Commission on Wednesday postponed the appointment of a lawyer to a new citizens' committee because of her involvement in three lawsuits against the county-run McCarran International...

Kenny proposes law to corral shopping carts.(news)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: FRANK GEARYREVIEW-JOURNAL Clark County Commissioner Erin Kenny proposed the county buy small, fold-up baskets for residents who might otherwise be handicapped by a proposal introduced Wednesday to corral abandoned shopping carts....

Rebels could face tough roadto begin conference schedule.(sports)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: STEVE CARPREVIEW-JOURNAL If UNLV's Mountain West Conference basketball schedule were a hand in a poker game, coach Charlie Spoonhour would probably demand the deck be checked -- and maybe changed. With five of their first seven...

Attorneys mullingTyson-Lewis bout.(sports)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: KEVIN IOLEREVIEW-JOURNAL Shelly Finkel, the advisor for former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, said Wednesday an agreement for Tyson to fight titleholder Lennox Lewis "is in the hands of the attorneys." The fight is...

Frohlich hits2,000-pointmilestone.(sports)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: REVIEW-JOURNAL Linda Frohlich scored her 2,000th career point as the UNLV women's basketball team defeated Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 82-64 on Wednesday at Cox Pavilion. Frohlich reached the milestone after hitting a game-opening...

Bookdirectordreadsthis week.(sports)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: KEVIN IOLEREVIEW-JOURNAL Bert Osborne never has been shy about giving his opinion. Now, he has a title to back up his beliefs. Osborne, the race and sports book director at the Gold Coast, won the seventh annual Stardust...

Crouch key if Cornhuskers to cover.(sports)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: MATT YOUMANSREVIEW-JOURNAL It's fitting that Nebraska quarterback Eric Crouch figures to be the most important player in tonight's Rose Bowl. Crouch can help answer two questions: 1) Did he deserve to win the Heisman Trophy?;...

GREEN THUMB: Gardening, Nevada Style.(living)
January 3, 2002... BYLINE: SONYA PADGETTREVIEW-JOURNAL When he was but a sprout growing up on his family's Utah farm, Linn Mills watched his mother, a registered nurse, tend things day in and day out -- patients, children, a husband, her garden. She...

Las Vegas Firm Helps Companies Get Noticed with High-Tech Business Cards.
January 4, 2002

Las Vegas Review-Journal In Business Column.
January 4, 2002

Nevada senators steer clear of Abraham visit.(news)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: REVIEW-JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham plans to inspect Yucca Mountain on Monday as part of a visit to Nevada that is shaping up differently from when it was announced last month. Abraham is expected to...

Mother to accept daughter's gift of life.(news)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: JOELLE BABULAREVIEW-JOURNAL Las Vegan Sue Cash said she half expected to see a kidney bathed in ice wrapped up under her Christmas tree. But her 20-year-old daughter's kidney is a gift Sue Cash had refused for nearly a year....

Mayor told ballparkfor majorspipe dream.(news)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: JAN MOLLERREVIEW-JOURNAL The prospects for major-league baseball coming to Las Vegas are a "pipe dream," Mayor Oscar Goodman was told Thursday by developers who are negotiating to build several projects on a key 61-acre site west...

CORONER'S INQUEST: Officer says man aimed gun at him.(news)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: RYAN OLIVERREVIEW-JOURNAL A Las Vegas police officer was justified when he fatally shot a robbery suspect wanted in connection with 41 heists, a coroner's inquest jury ruled Thursday. The family of Richard Travis Brown, the man...

Las Vegas teens sentencedin carjacking of commissioner.(news)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: CARRI GEER THEVENOTREVIEW-JOURNAL Clark County Commissioner Bruce Woodbury did not attend the sentencing Thursday for two Las Vegas teen-agers who stole his 1992 Lexus at gunpoint last year. Nor did he make any other attempts...

Mistrial declaredin Nye County case.(news)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: CARRI GEER THEVENOTREVIEW-JOURNAL The theft trial of Nye County's former public administrator and his wife came to an unexpected end last week after a prosecution witness gave inadmissible testimony. Senior District Judge...

Students, security officers clash.(news)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: J.M. KALILREVIEW-JOURNAL Student anti-war protesters said security officers at the Boardwalk Casino threatened Thursday to handcuff them and cart them away if they didn't stop handing out fliers on a sidewalk in front of the Strip...

ETHICS COMPLAINT: Car dealer considers new location.(news)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: FRANK GEARYREVIEW-JOURNAL A car dealer whose pursuit of a new dealership led to ethics charges against City Councilman Michael Mack is considering a new location in northwest Las Vegas. Auto dealer John Staluppi Jr. will ask...

County delays consideration of resort.(news)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: FRANK GEARYREVIEW-JOURNAL The Clark County Commission on Thursday postponed consideration of a new resort's development plans at the request of the influential Culinary union, but it wasn't clear whether the union's concerns...

Commission suspends new billboard regulations.(news)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: FRANK GEARYREVIEW-JOURNAL After nearly nine months of debate, the Clark County Commission on Thursday went back to the drawing board to draft new, stricter regulations on local billboard companies. The commissioners suspended...

Wyoming still trying to find form.(sports)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: STEVE CARPREVIEW-JOURNAL When Wyoming was picked in the preseason polls to win the Mountain West Conference, nobody was happier than coach Steve McClain. Most people wouldn't want that kind of pressure. But McClain welcomed...

Las Vegas Bowl ponderssplit from Mountain West.(sports)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: MARK ANDERSONREVIEW-JOURNAL Not long ago, the Las Vegas Bowl appeared certain to continue its affiliation with the Mountain West Conference. But Utah, this season's Mountain West representative, brought only about 2,000 fans to...

Tysoninquirycontinues.(sports)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: REVIEW-JOURNAL Authorities postponed a meeting at which prosecutors were to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to file criminal charges against former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, stemming from a woman's allegation...

Centennial rollsin tourney opener.(sports)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: REVIEW-JOURNAL Centennial's boys basketball team used a 10-point third-quarter run Thursday to open a 27-point lead, then coasted to a 77-57 victory over Virgin Valley in the first round of the Reid Gardner Holiday Basketball...

Handicapper not eagerto bet on final weekend.(sports)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: KEVIN IOLEREVIEW-JOURNAL Brent Crow has had a terrific year handicapping the NFL. He won the Sunset Station handicapping contest by going 6-0 last week, the final week of the event, and is 50-24 on NFL games, counting the preseason....

SHOW REVIEW: Four Tops can't help themselves.(weekly)(Review)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: MIKE WEATHERFORDREVIEW-JOURNAL "There will always be, through eternity, the four of us," a voice tells us at the beginning of the Four Tops' show. And for years, it was true. Their Motown peers, including frequent stage...

`Porgy & Bess' coming to Aladdin theater.(weekly)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: REVIEW-JOURNAL The Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts stages "Porgy & Bess" at 2 and 8 p.m. on Feb. 2. Tickets went on sale last week for $35, $55 and $75 at the box office, 3667 Las Vegas Blvd. South, and through...

COLUMN: MOVIE REVIEW: Family Man.(weekly)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: CAROL CLINGREVIEW-JOURNAL Writing in "Anna Karenina," Leo Tolstoy observed that happy families are all alike, while every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Fortunately, Tolstoy isn't around to offer his assessment of...

Finding New Meaning.(weekly)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: KEN WHITEREVIEW-JOURNAL When Mandy Patinkin puts on a show, anything goes. "I'll give you all I got and then a little more," says Patinkin, the Tony- and Emmy-winning actor and singer who is in concert Sunday at Artemus Ham...

COLUMN: RESTAURANT REVIEW: Out to Lunch.(weekly)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: HEIDI KNAPP RINELLAREVIEW-JOURNAL It was cheese curds that drew us to the Draft House Barn & Casino. Cheese curds, for the uninitiated, are great little nubbets formed during the earlier stages of the cheese-making process....

High-tech cards.(business)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: MATTHEW CROWLEYREVIEW-JOURNAL Business cards are basic business equipment, traded like handshakes at conventions, meetings and corners where likely clients lurk. But now technology has given a traditional idea a high-tech twist:...

Gannett, Donrey to operate Hawaii.com.(business)
January 4, 2002... BYLINE: REVIEW-JOURNAL Gannett Co. Inc. and Donrey Media of Las Vegas announced Thursday they have formed a limited liability corporation to operate and expand Hawaii.com, a tourism and entertainment Web site. "Hawaii.com has the...

Hundreds leave Nellis to go overseas.(news)
January 5, 2002... BYLINE: KEITH ROGERSREVIEW-JOURNAL Airman 1st Class Christopher Haak hugged his 4-month-old son for a few private minutes Friday night while his wife, Sarah, watched. Not far away, a plane at Nellis Air Force Base waited to take him and...

SUSPICIOUS FIRES: Builders warned to beware of arson.(news)
January 5, 2002... BYLINE: J.M. KALILREVIEW-JOURNAL Fire officials are urging developers to hire security guards to patrol construction sites after sundown in the wake of two nighttime blazes that investigators suspect were sparked by an arsonist. Fires...

Officer punished after tip from estranged wife.(news)
January 5, 2002... BYLINE: GLENN PUITREVIEW-JOURNAL A Henderson corrections sergeant has been disciplined by police amid suspicions he inappropriately accessed the personal information of acquaintances through the jail's computer databases. The case of...

College practice seen as invasion.(news)
January 5, 2002... BYLINE: NATALIE PATTONREVIEW-JOURNAL The University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Community College of Southern Nevada give up student names and home addresses to credit card companies eager to expand their pools of debtors. The...

ROAD WORK AHEAD: Construction to snarl I-15.(news)
January 5, 2002... BYLINE: MICHAEL SQUIRESREVIEW-JOURNAL Construction-weary motorists may want to avoid the Interstate 15 corridor in the coming days and weeks, as ongoing work on state and city projects will close roads, ramps and some of the freeway's...

Former factory to house college's first classes.(news)
January 5, 2002... BYLINE: NATALIE PATTONREVIEW-JOURNAL Mystery no longer surrounds the whereabouts of Nevada State College at Henderson's first classes this fall. They will be held in an abandoned vitamin factory on Dawson Avenue near the southern...

Money granted to retrain workers.(news)
January 5, 2002... BYLINE: REVIEW-JOURNAL A federal grant secured by U.S. Sen. Harry Reid in the last days of the congressional session will provide $1.75 million for retraining Southern Nevada workers laid off after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The...

Fired police officerfiles privacy lawsuit.(news)
January 5, 2002... BYLINE: CARRI GEER THEVENOTREVIEW-JOURNAL A former North Las Vegas police officer has filed a lawsuit against a Walgreens pharmacist who shared information with the officer's supervisors about her prescription drug history. Gina...

Man arrested after weapons found in home.(news)
January 5, 2002... BYLINE: REVIEW-JOURNAL Police and federal agents raiding a three-time convicted felon's home Thursday morning retreated from the residence when they came across explosives in the doorway. After the bomb squad rendered the explosive...

Suspect accused of mailing threats to members of Congress.(news)
January 5, 2002... BYLINE: REVIEW-JOURNAL A Las Vegas man is being held without bail on charges that he wrote threatening letters to four members of Congress, including Nevada Sen. Harry Reid. Milton Thomas Black was arrested Wednesday on a charge of...

Rebels expect wild opener.(sports)
January 5, 2002... BYLINE: STEVE CARPREVIEW-JOURNAL The last time UNLV and Wyoming met at the Thomas & Mack Center, 208 points were scored, a senior bowed out with 49 points, a former coach hurdled the scorer's table and a banned booster celebrated on the...

SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT BATTLE: Ayala, Adams eye rematch.(sports)
January 5, 2002... BYLINE: ROYCE FEOURREVIEW-JOURNAL The first fight between super bantamweights Paulie Ayala and Clarence "Bones" Adams was a hard-fought, close bout in which Ayala won on a split decision. Both fighters say the 12-round rematch Feb. 23...

Foothill's Ford in bowl game today.(sports)
January 5, 2002... BYLINE: REVIEW-JOURNAL Foothill High's John Ford will play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl football game today in San Antonio. The senior, who rushed for 2,030 yards and 32 touchdowns in 2001, is one of 37 players on the West...

Coronado boys fend off Boulder City.(sports)
January 5, 2002... BYLINE: REVIEW-JOURNAL Wes Hager scored a game-high 31 points as Coronado's boys basketball team beat Boulder City 69-64 in the Reid Gardner Holiday Classic on Friday in Overton. The Cougars will play The Meadows in the consolation...

UNLV WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Lady Rebels dodge upset.(sports)
January 5, 2002... BYLINE: MARK ANDERSONREVIEW-JOURNAL The Northern Arizona women's basketball team didn't bring much of a national reputation to Cox Pavilion, but the Lumberjacks had given opponents plenty of trouble. Count UNLV among them now. The...