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Ed Graney
Ed Graney is a sports columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covering a variety of topics and the Las Vegas sports scene.
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This is what will bring boxing fans back, what will raise the interest of those who have adopted mixed martial arts as their favorite sport of blood and anguish.
UNLV basketball coach Lon Kruger left at halftime, probably to go enjoy a more interesting game at a local high school. Courtside fans Warren Buffett and Bill Gates also bailed early, because when bank accounts worth a combined $120 billion begin plunging like Katie Couric’s ratings, heading to the nickel slots seems a better idea than sitting through routs like the one Team USA pinned on Canada on Friday.
Here’s a thought: What if USA Basketball doesn’t win gold in China?
They held a news conference at the MGM Grand on Wednesday to promote the Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito welterweight championship fight, but it was impossible not to be distracted by the 147-pound elephant in the ballroom. Bob Arum made sure of it. I’m guessing the top dog at Top Rank wasn’t a CIA operative in another life.
The smell always gets you. That clear, disinfectant odor of drugs mixed with fear. You can’t avoid it. There is no special corridor, no secret passageway, no singular escape by which to circumvent the scent.
If there were a judge and jury of 12 impartial souls not aware UNLV football exists — I could find 12 on my block — the verdict could be read following opening arguments.
He drove across Interstate 15 late that summer, amazed with what he had seen, captivated by the pageantry, inspired to witness more, determined to travel all across the globe to live the moment over and over.
Forget the part about baseball managers being judged exclusively on overall record. Not at this level.
Brandon Jennings today should be concerned only with signing a professional basketball contract worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, complete with a plush apartment and an expensive ride. He should be dreaming about hip European culture, of perhaps enjoying a nice bruschetta outside some cafe after practice.
It’s enough to request early entry into the Denny’s senior menu club, this list of health issues that doctors suggest accelerate around age 40.
Say you wander down the hall at home this week and one of your little angels somehow has cracked the parental control software on the family computer, where an Internet poker tournament is being staged. Your first instinct might be to hand out a severe punishment, like forcing the child to sit through a taped marathon of UNLV football the past few years.
The room was meant for silent contemplation, a place in the hospital to sit and pray and beg a higher being for help. Maria Fragoso didn’t feel much like being quiet, and the door that took forever to close wasn’t helping.