Raheem Mostert was told more often than not that he wasn’t good enough, his road to Super Bowl LIV filled with more challenges than avoiding bull sharks.
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Ed Graney came to the Review-Journal in May of 2006 as its lead sports columnist. He has covered all major sporting events, including Super Bowls to NBA championships to every Final Four since 1995. Graney also covered the Olympic Games in Beijing (2008) and London (2012). A graduate of San Diego State University, he is a five-time Nevada Sportswriter of the Year and past winner of Associated Press Sports Editors Top 10 for columns. He and wife Bonnie have two children, a son (Tristan) and daughter (Bridget).
While the 49ers and Chiefs meet in what many believe could challenge the game’s history for excitement and drama, the Super Bowl long ago became so much more than Xs and Os.
You won’t hear much about Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy this week in Miami, even though his name often comes up when discussing the Rooney Rule.
Derrick Jones, a kid from Chester, Pennsylvania, who played his college ball for UNLV, stood at his Miami Heat locker on Tuesday night and spoke about the death of Kobe Bryant.
Something as simple and yet condemning as a yellow flag last season led to Ford being traded from Kansas City to the 49ers, with the teams meeting Sunday in Super Bowl LIV.
While few in sports history owned Bryant’s cutthroat competitive nature as a player, fatherhood seemed to soften him.
The town that does everything big is going even more so come April 23-25, when the city will present a 72-hour caffeine buzz to equal or surpass any previous draft.
Coleman is one of many reasons UNLV has outperformed expectations. He’s a former walk-on from Foothill High whose name was largely ignored in the recruiting rankings.
You can only be motivated by sentiment for so long, and what the Knights did Saturday was about returning to hockey and moving beyond the drama of their coach being fired.
Few in the Golden Knights room would have had similar thoughts as Reaves when it was announced that DeBoer would be replacing the fired Gerard Gallant this week.
Fans certainly will be content with first impressions, the Knights having snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Ottawa Senators 4-2 on Thursday.
Golden Knights forward Jonathan Marchessault, who played for Gerard Gallant in Florida and Las Vegas, called his dismissal “an awful situation, just terrible.”
Gerard Gallant was fired as coach of the Golden Knights on Wednesday morning. For such a seemingly rushed decision, be assured it wasn’t made in the previous 24 hours.
It wasn’t a disastrous start for the Golden Knights. It just wasn’t very good, an opening 20 minutes that was eventually followed by a 3-0 loss to end a seven-game homestand.
A reminder comes each time the Golden Knights play Pittsburgh, with Marc-Andre Fleury again in the opposite net of the team that drafted him No. 1 overall in 2003.