It was billed as twice as wide and twice as loud but it was 10 times the fun for DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals winners Steve Torrence, J.R. Todd and Vincent Nobile.
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.
Richie Crampton was driving for well-heeled Morgan Lucas Racing and appeared headed for NHRA stardom when the team folded, leaving him to watch drag racing on TV.
Former UNLV athletic director Jim Livengood still is working on an idea to bring the women’s Sweet 16 basketball tournament to Las Vegas.
Cassidy McCarthy calls herself Lucy Soultaker, and the 18-year-old is training to become a professional wrestler.
He was the greatest quarterback Las Vegas has produced, so David Humm’s life was celebrated Friday afternoon in a sports arena with pep talks and a tailgate party. Which is how he would have wanted it.
NHRA champion Antron Brown was ready with high-octane analogies during Thursday’s news conference introducing four-wide drag racing at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits would have loved the 2019 schedule NASCAR released on Tuesday. Except for the off week that fluctuates because of the Easter holiday, it was exactly the same as the 2018 schedule.
The local Miracle League had its ninth opening day March 24. A lot of kids ran or were pushed around the bases at the Miracle League Field on South Rancho Drive. A lot of parents and brothers and sisters cheered.
It had been five weeks since he had become a darling of late night television and an American Olympic hero, and John Shuster was stifling a yawn Friday morning.
People line up an hour before the opening face-off to collect them, or a souvenir poster, or just about anything else which might have emotional value, or monetary value on eBay after the game.
With NASCAR taking a rare weekend off, it’s a good time to analyze how the young lions stack up against veteran drivers in season points after six races.
David Humm was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1988. Except for family members, he didn’t tell anybody. He didn’t want people to feel sorry for him, for that was never his style.
Move over Bill Self and Jay Wright and the turtle rat and the girl who throws her boyfriend’s stuff out the window in that NCAA Tournament commercial. The real stars of March Madness are Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt and her bobblehead doll.
Not being a big fan of reality television, it came as a surprise to learn that Arie Luyendyk’s son had become “The Bachelor,” although auto racing enthusiasts probably are the only ones who refer to Arie Luyendyk Jr. in that manner.
IndyCar racing is moving under one televised umbrella. And for the first time since 1965, it won’t feature the ABC logo.