Ed Graney
Ed Graney is a sports columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covering a variety of topics and the Las Vegas sports scene.
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It is not the culmination of a dream. It is the continuation of one. Jake Dalton’s journey carries on.
I would pay to hear Khadevis Robinson speak, to discover how life beckons at certain moments, to learn how he exorcised those demons from 2000 and 2008, to better understand his view that the past is gone and the future doesn’t exist and the only choice we have is to live in the moment.
Another basketball team from the U.S. opened its pursuit of gold Sunday. It beat France, 98-71.
Las Vegas fighter Michael Hunter is seeking an Olympic gold medal in boxing this year in London.
He was inhaling from the bong like there was no tomorrow, like this is where Olympic champions go to escape the pressure and expectations and photographers hiding in the bushes.
“I worked my butt off for four years,” Ryan Lochte reminded those asking questions Saturday. “I put in all the hard work.”
It can’t be a bad thing. Impossible. Rivalries in sport tend to create greatness, magical moments, snapshots that eventually outlive those special athletes talented enough to produce them.
Think of it this way: If the opening ceremony of an Olympics is designed to celebrate the concepts of friendship and peace while also paying tribute to a host nation’s history and traditions, those who welcomed the world to the London 2012 Games on Friday did so with varied success.
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