RJ’s Steve Carp wins Nevada Sportswriter of the Year award

Las Vegas Review Journal reporter Steve Carp, who covers boxing, golf and the National Hockey League pursuit, has been selected as the Nevada Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, the organization announced Monday.

This marked the fifth time the award has been given to Carp, who has been with the Review-Journal since 1999.

Russ Langer, play-by-play announcer for UNLV football and the Las Vegas 51s, was selected as the Nevada Sportscaster of the Year for the 10th time by the national organization.

Carp, 59, has been in Las Vegas since 1988 when he spent 11 years at the Las Vegas Sun. He has covered UNLV basketball, the 2006 NBA All-Star Game, Team USA Basketball, the NBA Summer League and college basketball tournaments that have been held in Las Vegas.

He has been the RJ's boxing and golf writer since 2007 and has also covered professional tennis, pro soccer and pro football. Recently, he was selected to head the RJ's coverage of Bill Foley's attempt to bring major league professional sports to Las Vegas with an NHL expansion team.

Carp, who is the author of "Runnin',"a book on the history of UNLV basketball, has won numerous writing awards from the Nevada Press Association and he is a past president of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.

He will be among those honored on June 18-20 at the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association's Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Salisbury, N.C. Chris Berman, Billy Packer, Gary Smith and the late David Halberstam will inducted into the Hall during the event. Also honored will be National Sportscaster of the Year Mike "Doc" Emrick and National Sportswriter of the Year Tom Verducci, and 104 State Sportscasters and Sportswriters of the Year.