Liberty High football coach Rich Muraco and Centennial High counterpart Dustin Forshee discuss the Nevada 4A state championship game set for Dec. 7 at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. (Ron Kantowski/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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Valley High School’s football field, along with the fields at Clark and Rancho, have been deemed unsafe. The teams will play every game this season on the road. Clark, Rancho and Valley each received a turf field in the early 2000s, and these fields usually have a shelf life of about 10 years. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Ben Slighting of Palo Verde is the 2018-19 No Limits Award winner. Ben suffers Osteo-Genesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease, but he won the state title in the 3,200-meter wheelchair race last year and had another outstanding season this spring.
Longtime Las Vegas High baseball coach Sam Thomas talks about catching Hall of Fame pitcher Greg Maddux at Las Vegas’ Valley High School. (Ron Kantowski/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Foothill senior basketball player Jace Roquemore announced his commitment to UC-San Diego on Thursday. (Sam Gordon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Clark senior forward Ian Alexander was awarded a full scholarship Monday, but not for basketball. Alexander is going to study bio-medical engineering at Northwestern, thanks in part to a non-profit organization called QuestBridge that aims to send low income students to high academic universities. Alexander, a straight-A student, discovered QuestBridge while recovering from a torn ACL he sustained in the Region Championship game against Bishop Gorman. Through QuestBridge, he spent the summer studying the business of sport at Penn. He was cleared to return to the court in August, and made his season debut for the Chargers basketball team on Saturday.