Charlie Hans of Middletown, Ohio, was a helluva pool player when he was a young man of 27. One of the better ones in the Cincinnati area, he said with an aw-shucks southwestern Ohio drawl.
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Through the years, Jerry Tarkanian has remained steadfast. Unlike Pete Rose, he did not have to apologize. For anything. All that has changed is how the basketball establishment views him.
Carol Sheehan grew up in Florida and has lived in Las Vegas since 1992. She attended Auburn University, she said, because she wanted to go to college up north, “someplace where it snowed.”
On the surface, Matty Cutler and Sean Larimer might seem like an unlikely pair. But the bond the two have shared since high school is strong — one that helped them both overcome challenges through the years.
I remember reading somewhere that the difference between being young and being old is that young people choose a breakfast cereal for the toy, and old people choose it for the fiber content.
Did you know that Abe Lincoln was a freestyle wrestler? He wasn’t the only president who wrestled. Andrew Jackson wrestled. Why do you think they called him Old Hickory?
I received an email Tuesday night saying there would be a funeral Friday in Albuquerque, N.M., for Derek Sanchez. Rosary at 9:30 a.m., service at 10 at Risen Savior Catholic Community church, burial to follow at Gate of Heaven cemetery, next to the church, on Wyoming Boulevard Northeast.
It was to college basketball cheering sections what the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Colossus of Rhodes were to classic antiquity; what Big Bertha was to metal drivers; what Superman’s bare hands were to steel and the course of mighty rivers.
One of the cool things about old ballparks is many don’t have bullpens. So when a special pitcher — i.e., one who can throw a baseball through a proverbial brick wall — is scheduled to take the mound, you often can work your way down there, close to the pseudo bullpens along the outfield foul lines, to watch him warm up.
En route to the biennial UNLV Athletic Apparel Sale on Saturday morning, I couldn’t help but notice the giant billboard blocking out the sun in the manner of a solar eclipse.