It had been exactly three months since terrorist bombings in Paris had left 130 people dead. On Saturday morning, the echoes from those blasts were felt in the middle of Field 2 of the Bettye Wilson Soccer Complex.
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In 1864, the story goes, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman wired a military order to Gen. John M. Corse back at Union Army headquarters in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The directive was supposed to say “hold on, relief is coming.” It came out “hold the fort,” and then after that, it became “hold down the fort.”
It’s this time of year when Mike Cofer is reminded of having twice kicked a football on the game’s biggest stage, and also that people can be (expletives) sometimes.
Usually when a birth certificate is doctored for the sake of sports, it’s so a kid can play in Little League for one more season.
With so many West Coast events to attend — Tournament of Roses Parade; NCAA national championship football game in Glendale, Ariz.; Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, Calif. — the world famous Clydesdales have become among Michael Gaughan’s most pampered guests.
Archery people from around the world and around the United States — but mostly from places such as South Dakota — were making their way to the Equestrian Center. They wielded high-tech bows affixed with pulleys and wheels. Quivers of arrows were strapped across shoulders. This was Las Vegas Shoot 2016.
To say things have been on an uptick for Napoleon McCallum is putting it more mildly than a Palm Springs winter.
For the sake of this discussion, let’s assume shovels will be placed in the ground at the $1 billion domed arena site on the edge of UNLV’s campus. And that the NFL rescinds its leather-helmet view of legal and highly monitored gambling on pro football.
Maybe we’re getting a little bit ahead of ourselves with this speculation of the NFL coming to town. But in the NFL, getting ahead of oneself is a way of life.
When I told the UNLV people I wanted to write about the new courtside seating area at Lady Rebels games sometimes referred to as Tiffany Row (there is no official connection with the women’s jewelry and specialty retailer), they pointed to three women’s basketball fans seated in the cushy seats near the baseline.
When it was announced Tim Chambers was stepping down as UNLV baseball coach, the first things that came to mind was his health and family, because those things are more important than a season-opening, three-game series at Texas.
It was Aug. 22, the penultimate homestand of the 2015 Las Vegas 51s’ season, when the (raw sewage) hit the fan at Cashman Field. The toilets near the dugouts backed up and exploded into a noxious quagmire. Don Logan, the 51s president, said (raw sewage) got all over his shoes.
Tony Stewart has a cantankerous nature, which until 2014 mostly had served him well, in the manner that having a cantankerous nature served the great A.J. Foyt well.
Curling is a cool game — it often is called “chess on ice” — and it’s on TV real late at night during the Olympics, and I have seen calendars featuring some of these women’s curlers. Those are … um … pretty interesting, too.
At a little past 11 a.m. Wednesday, a red pickup truck pulled out from the shadow of the Richard Petty Terrace and made a left-hand turn through the infield tunnel at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.