He has reached an age where career accomplishments are appreciated. But at 45 and on top on his game, NHRA Top Fuel champion Antron Brown is nowhere close to slowing down.
Ron Kantowski
Sports columnist
Email: rkantowski@reviewjournal.com
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Ron Kantowski is a sports columnist and covers auto racing for the Review-Journal. He has won multiple writing awards and in 2016 was named Nevada Sportswriter of the Year. Prior to beginning a long career in Las Vegas sports journalism, Kantowski attended Western New Mexico University in Silver City, N.M., where he played for the baseball team. He is a native of Whiting, Ind.
Lights FC and a fledgling indoor volleyball francise go by Las Vegas despite training in California.
Funny Car veteran J.R. Todd is seeking his third consecutive victory in the Denso Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
LVMS track record-holder Brittany Force is poised for another strong showing at Four-Wide Nationals after spending a year on the sidelines due to COVID reorganization.
Las Vegas’ Miracle League returns to the field after grim 2020 layoff caused by COVID-19.
Former NASCAR Truck Series racer TJ Clark to supervise LVMS short track program that was canceled by COVID in 2020.
It was only the fourth time it had been done on TV and the first since Jess Stayrook at the 1991 Tucson Open.
Despite producing Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, the Pacific Coast League goes away as part of Major League Baseball’s reorganization of the minor leagues.
After many years of trying, Matt Jaskol, 36, to make big-time auto racing debut in Friday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Martinsville, Virginia.
By opening Allegiant Stadium for a practice jamboree, the Raiders have helped provide local high school football teams with a silver lining amid COVID.
With Thursday’s Minor League opening day pushed back to May, Aviators remain at alternate training site hoping for a return to normalcy.
Moments from March Madness — some shining, some a bit dull around the edges — that made the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments worth remembering.
With COVID restrictions being lifted and rims back in place, Las Vegas playground basketball players slowly make their way back to the courts.
UNLV kicker Nick Garritano still marvels 30 years later at Jason Hanson’s 62-yard field goal for Washington State in its 41-13 win over UNLV at Sam Boyd Stadium in 1991.
Collecting baseball cards — or at least buying and selling the most rare ones — is a big thing again. A 1952 Mickey Mantle card sold for $5.2 million in January.