NASCAR Champion’s Week in Las Vegas began Wednesday with the Busch brothers waiting on new arrivals of a vastly different sort.
Ron Kantowski
Sports columnist
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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.
The Alliance of American Football held its inaugural quarterback draft at Luxor on Tuesday, the first step on the road to putting together a spring pro football league that will try to succeed where so many others have failed.
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson raised $800,000 for charitable causes through side bets that, like Charles Barkley’s commentary, were supposed to make their $9 million golf match more interesting.
Just when you thought the $9 million, winner-take-all, made-for-pay TV golf match between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson couldn’t get any more surreal it did.
With the NHL having arrived, the NFL on its way and perhaps the NBA after that, UNLV’s quest to remain relevant is only just beginning, according to athletic directors at other NCAA Group of Five schools in major league markets.
Kyle Busch had a season to remember in 2018 before suffering a day to forget, finishing fourth among the four drivers eligibile to win a one-race showdown for the NASCAR championship.
As the losses mount amid the advent of major league sports in Las Vegas, it seems the Rebels are getting closer to fading into oblivion than returning to prominence.
In a five-part series titled “Rebels in Ruins,” which begins Monday, Review-Journal sports writers Ed Graney, Ron Kantowski and Mark Anderson will analyze UNLV’s downward trajectory in the revenue sports, how expansion and television revenues have widened the gap between the Power Five and Group of Five conferences, and what, if anything, the Rebels can do to expedite a return to prominence.
Eric Wynalda showed a reporter a cellphone video he had recorded in the wee hours of Nov. 9. It showed a red fireball moving toward his home in the hills above Ventura County, California.
Michele Abbate of Henderson finished third in the GT1 class at historic Sonoma Raceway in California during the Sports Car Club of American’s Runoffs for amateur road racers.
Founded in 1991, Tony La Russa’s Animal Rescue Foundation has spared more than 40,000 cats and dogs and spawned a roster of related programs that have created awareness in the mission.
A penalty levied against championship contender Kevin Harvick has greatly enhanced the NASCAR title hopes of his Stewart-Haas Racing teammate Kurt Busch of Las Vegas.
Cameron Champ trails co-leaders Bryson DeChambeau and Peter Uihlein by three shots heading into the final round of the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, but he’s the leader in the clubhouse as far as oohs and aahs for the way he strikes a golf ball.
Katie Hnida, who made history when she played in the Las Vegas Bowl, is facing a mountain of medical bills after surviving a life-threatening reaction to antibiotics.
Unless you count the Shriners who wandered inside the ropes to retrieve wind blown fezzes, Kenny Perry was the oldest guy on the golf course Thursday when the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open began at TPC Summerlin.