Marking 30 years as a heart transplant recipient, Simon Keith joins former U.S. surgeon general, Nobel Prize winner on White House Organ Summit speaker list.
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Ron Kantowski
Ron Kantowski 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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When he won the 1954 state amateur, the woods were made of wood, and he was “Bobby Pratt, the par-busting schoolboy” according to the yellow newspaper clippings..
Former Spring Valley High, Oregon star Tyler Anderson pitches, hits Colorado Rockies to victory in a night to remember.
Former first-round draft pick Tyler Anderson works six solid innings against Giants but gets nothing to show for it on Fourth of July.
Las Vegas businessman Sig Rogich, a former U.S. ambassador to Iceland, is pulling for the nation of his birthplace in the Euro 2016 soccer quarterfinals against France on Sunday.
Tennessee women’s basketball coaching legend Pat Summitt, who died Tuesday from Alzheimer’s disease at age 64, visited Las Vegas to support her son in 2013.
Former Bishop Gorman High School star Marty Cordova, the 1995 American League Rookie of the Year, was inducted into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame on Friday at Orleans Arena.
It was two days after the Indianapolis 500 when Sam Schmidt answered his cellphone and was asked if he finally was back home in Henderson. No, he said. He was heading to Detroit for an IndyCar doubleheader.
When it comes to hockey history, Las Vegas is somewhat limited. We haven’t had a lot of old-time hockey here, but that will be changing in a most revolutionary way.
Top travel team high school-aged tournament runs Wednesday through Sunday at Cashman Field, local diamonds.
A big man with a loyal heart, Paul Pucciarelli was one of the longest-tenured members of the UNLV athletic department. He once received a game ball from football coach John Robinson.
For six years during the 1990s, Clint Malarchuk was known as The Cowboy Goalie. He was the starting goaltender for the Las Vegas Thunder of the International Hockey League as well as the face of the franchise.
Sarah Edwards said she wasn’t a boxing fan, but as a citizen of the world, she knew who Muhammad Ali was.
Nobody has actually died during the rigorous Mojave Death Race. Not yet anyway. But the captain of the winning team says he has experienced the occasional hallucination.
The legend of Muhammad Ali was so great that he once was matched against Superman in the comic books — and won. It might be the perfect metaphor for the legend that was Ali.