Former Olympic track and field gold medalist Olga Connolly teaching how to be well in Summerlin.
Ron Kantowski
Sports columnist
Email: rkantowski@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-0352
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.
Another All-Star Game is upon us, which means guys are faking hamstring injuries to get out of playing in it and baseball writers are pontificating about how to make it great again.
The Vermont jam band Phish played a role in the genesis of the NBA’s Las Vegas Summer League, according to former Thomas & Mack Center director Daren Libonati.
His NASCAR career was brief, but Travis Pastrana did pass Dale Earnhardt Jr. en route to a top 10 finish at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
If you’ve watched TV for anytime in Las Vegas, then you already know John Barr will do anything to sell you a car —as long as England isn’t playing in the semifinals of the World Cup.
Action sports star Travis Pastrana successfully jumped the fountains at Caesars Palace Sunday night, completing his attempt to replicate three of legendary daredevil Evel Knievel’s most iconic jumps on the same day.
A few hours after a July 3 postgame fireworks extravaganza (or spectacular), the 51s boarded a bus that would arrive in Fresno, California, in about six hours, contingent upon how long it took to stretch tired legs in Bakersfield.
In a made-for-TV event than Evel Knievel would have admired, 11-time X Games gold medalist Travis Pastrana will attempt to clear 52 cars and 16 Greyhound buses before jumping the fountains at Caesars Palace all on the same day.
His nickname on the pro darts circuit is “Voltage.” That’s because until about 18 months ago, Rob Cross, who lives in Hastings on England’s southeast coast, was an electrician.
Almost lost in postrace histrionics after Kyle Busch won a slam-bang duel with Kyle Larson on the final lap of Sunday’s NASCAR race near Chicago was that the slam-bang finish happened on a 1.5-mile track.
Richard Harrison wasn’t always a pawn star. He was always The Old Man. But it was his son, Rick, who mostly called him that before he had his own bobblehead doll.
Fans attending the inaugural Sept. 14 to 16 South Point 400 NASCAR weekend will be greeted by a new loge box seating area in Turn 4 mirroring the one that debuted in Turn 1 at the spring Cup Series weekend.
According to the sports arrest database Arrest Nation, the NHL went the entire 2016-17 season without having one of its players, coaches or Zamboni drivers running afoul of the law.
It was June 25, 2014, almost four years ago to the day. It was the day a columnist wrote about the U.S. becoming a force in World Cup soccer.
Former Mojave High and UNLV star Sequoia Holmes saw action in the first three games of the Aces’ recent four-game trip. Then she was cut. Again.