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The United Way is following me, even though I gave at the office. So is UNLV Athletics, but that’s probably just the athletic director’s way of being funny.
This is where the dream begins, far from sold-out arenas and pay-per-view dollars and famous fighters who delivered mixed martial arts into the mainstream for good.
Bryan Savelio played football at the University of Florida. He remembers those road trips to other Southeastern Conference schools, remembers the bus rides from the team hotel to the stadiums of Tennessee and Louisiana State and Mississippi, remembers the opposing fans.
Horseplayers expecting full cards at major racetracks such as Churchill Downs, Golden Gate, Hollywood Park and Monmouth Park were sorely disappointed Thursday. They were closed.
It’s the last week of May, and Nevada hunters soon will grow anxious awaiting the results of the big game tag draw. Those results should be available before long, but knowing whether you received a tag won’t do you any good if you don’t have ammo for your favorite hunting rifle.
Vince Lombardi: “If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, why do they keep score?”
John Lindsey makes you a baseball fan again. He takes any indifferent emotions that might’ve developed over the years and returns them to those of a rooting interest.
Think of this as your child’s first impression of kindergarten: You get the little one dressed all nice and sweet for the big transition from home to more formal schooling. Spider-Man backpack. SpongeBob lunch box. The works.
A former colleague had this adage by which he would define our profession.
Less than a month ago, Mine That Bird and Rachel Alexandra could have walked into the Churchill Downs paddock drawing barely a glance. Now they are horse racing’s two biggest celebrities.
Matt Snodgrass is most alive on a golf course, after seven brain tumors and all the radiation and chemotherapy that goes with them. He turns 21 on May 29, when for a second year he will host a golf tournament to benefit his condition and other young people fighting cancer.
The sun hadn’t been up long, but there already were a couple of anglers on the water when Dallin, my eldest son, and I pulled into the parking lot. At the launch ramp, two fly-fishermen busied themselves with preparing their float tubes and other gear for a day on Haymeadow Reservoir, one of three popular fishing waters at the Kirch Wildlife Management Area — Sunnyside to old-timers.
This time of year arrives and Buddy Gouldsmith takes a stroll across hot coals, a tradition becoming more and more hazardous with UNLV’s latest losing baseball season.