As he rounded second base after hitting a walk-off home run, it occurred to 32-year-old Cody Decker that it probably wasn’t going to get any better than that. So when he got to home plate, he retired on the spot.
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.
It was decided during a Pacific Coast League executive committee conference call that league members should consider extending safety netting to protect fans from foul balls.
After receiving a rousing ovation after first pitch duties at Las Vegas Ballpark, Gloria Saucier spoke of having seen Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio play ball at Yankee Stadium.
Proud Balkan basketball nation still trying to find its way back to international prominence after devastating civil war of the 1990s.
Since exploding from pubs into the sports mainstream on the other side of the pond via a bawdy party-type atmosphere in the 1990s, professional darts has been dominated by throwers from England and countries close to it.
Chris Clyne, son of Las Vegas Motor Speedway founder Richie Clybe, will be the man to beat on the annual Night of Fire featuring grassroots auto racing and fireworks.
Whenever John Kerr showed up at one of nephew Jimmy Kerr’s games, it seemed the Wolverines would lose. So Jimmy’s dad Derek “banned” his brother from attending the College World Series.
Denae Benites, who played high school baseball on the boys team at Centennial High, was one of 65 players invited to the MLB Breakthrough Series in Vero Beach, Florida.
With the help of legendary referee Joe Cortez, the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame has found a home in the HeadzUP interactive entertainment center at Boulevard Mall.
Approaching the last year of his contract under a new athletic director at Northern Arizona, Las Vegan Jack Murphy decided to become an assistant under embattled Sean Miller at Arizona.
The 2019 U.S. Women’s Open went down to the last ball, with Danielle McEwan of Stony Point, N.Y., edging top qualifier Tannya Roumimper of Indonesia, 201-199, at Texas Station.
Tuesday was the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest soccer goals in U.S. Men’s National Team history, a free kick that gave the Americans a 1-1 draw against Switzerland.
The agreement was announced Tuesday at Encore during the NHL’s Advancing Equity Summit, at which commissioner Gary Bettman appeared with the tennis legend.
With once prevalent baseball card shops having been shuttered, collectors hit the road to build inventory that is now sold online.
Chicago Cubs TV analyst Jim Deshaies said there were only two ballplayers savvy enough to draw an obstruction or interference call — the Cubs’ Javier Baez and “the great Tommy Barrett.”