...Pitt's Rusty and some of their cohorts bemoan how Vegas has changed, with pioneer casinos such as the Dunes and the Desert Inn supplanted by bigger, flashier entertainment and gambling behemoths. The same holds for Ocean's Thirteen. Bigger...
...eventually headed to the old Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, then on to Las Vegas, where they played the Sands, the Desert Inn and headlined for 10 years at Caesars Palace. Unlike the three- or four-day stands of today's Vegas, the resort's...
...better recollection of the time he and Arnold Palmer played in Las Vegas against Barbara Romack and Mickey Wright at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas. Finsterwald and Palmer arrived a week early. He remembers how they converted the golf course into a par...
...announced, "we go to casino." As it turned out, Pak indeed lost the small ones -- $60 in the slot machines at The Desert Inn -- but won the big treasure, a playoff victory over Karrie Webb and Laura Davies in the season-ending LPGA Tour Championship...
...her fortunes at the slot machines, walking out of the casino with a cup full of coins. That didn't help her at the Desert Inn Golf Club, where she dropped four shots on the first 10 holes to turn a rout into a race. "My tee shots made me work...
...hasn't made anything worse than birdie on a par-5 in two days, had an eagle and three birdies on the long holes at the Desert Inn Country Club to move to 11-under after two rounds of the season-ending event. Tina Barrett shot a 66 to move into...
...since nearly winning the U.S. Women's Open earlier this year, overcame two 3-putts by making five birdies on the Desert Inn Country Club course where she won twice in the early 1980s while still in the prime of her career. "I'd like to win...
...this season, and Webb has $947,356 entering this week's season-concluding LPGA Tour Championship at the Sheraton Desert Inn in Las Vegas, Nev. "What's interesting is that somehow there was an assumption that women being supported as professional...
...followed included the Thunderbird, Desert Inn, Sahara, Sands, Riviera, Hacienda...arrived from Cleveland to open the Desert Inn and Las Vegas Country Club, and...Howard Hughes decided to settle in the Desert Inn, one of several casinos he bought...
...in a collection of 19th- and 20th-century American and European masterpieces displayed at a gallery in the former Desert Inn resort, where Wynn is building a new casino-hotel. The evening auction, featuring 44 works of art, is expected...
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