Former UNLV football players Hunkie Cooper and Steve Stallworth, youth baseball figures Manny Guerra and Mike Martin, the Golden Knights and sports writer Steve Carp make up the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame class.
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The Skatin’ Rebels are 11-4 this season and continue to dream about one day advancing from club to NCAA Division I level, which could take as much as $20 million.
It was the longest of long weekends for Las Vegas sports fans. But there’s a long way to go to catch Cleveland.
Nick Robone doesn’t question attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival last Oct. 1, doesn’t believe he should have left his recreation hockey league game and simply went home, doesn’t regret agreeing to meet his younger brother and friends to watch country star Jason Aldean perform.
Study after study has concluded that stadiums aren’t effective economic development drivers. But a leading urban growth researcher says Orlando and Las Vegas are exceptions because of the strength of their regions’ tourism economies.
Stanford opened as a 6½-point favorite over No. 2o Utah, but sharp money on the home underdog has since moved the line to 4½.
UNLV’s athletic department and the Golden Knights have formed a joint internship program. Undergraduate students can intern for a year in UNLV’s athletic department and then spend another year in the same capacity for the Knights.
Sports in Las Vegas rose to a whole new level this year.
The Rebels are still a club program as they attempt to raise the funding to go Division I NCAA varsity, but they will move up from Division II to D-I in the American Collegiate Hockey Association beginning in 2017-18.
Most of the attention has turned to the possibility of the Oakland Raiders moving to Las Vegas. There isn’t as much interest anymore about who will drive the Zamboni at Las Vegas NHL games.