There have been 26 college football seasons since I first rolled across Hoover Dam. There have been three winning ones. It could be argued the Rebels’ run of futility over the past quarter-century is unsurpassed.
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For a lot of people, minor league baseball conjures images of long bus trips from one dusty town to the next, of grizzled veterans separating less worldly middle infielders from the Dominican Republic of their per diem money in a poker game before they get to Amarillo. Somebody would be playing a harmonica in the back of the bus. Probably a utility infielder.
Last week, a big kid with a mop of blond hair named Trace Evans hit a home run in 11 consecutive official at-bats to power the Las Vegas Baseball Academy Lightning to the championship of a 104-team tournament at Cooperstown Dreams Park.
Zach Holt is only 14, two years too young to be a pro fisherman on the bass tour. So he had to get a special dispensation from the sanctioning body allowing him to compete in the U.S. Open on Sept. 9-11 on Lake Mead, which is like the Super Bowl of bass fishing for anglers in the Western states who wear caps advertising worm shops.
A few years back, when every shoe company save for Red Wing and Birkenstock was putting on national AAU basketball tournaments in Las Vegas, I wrote about a team from Wahoo, Neb. — which just so happened was one of the “home offices” of the nightly Top 10 list on “Late Show with David Letterman.”
Igor Zaripov, a Las Vegas-based Cirque du Soleil performer and star of the James Cameron-produced “Worlds Away” Cirque du Soleil motion picture in 3D, is a man of many talents. Diverse talents.
Remember the iconic scene in “On the Waterfront,” in which Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger are riding in the back of a taxi, and Charley “The Gent” Malloy, played by Steiger, jabs a pistol into the ribs of Terry Malloy, played by Brando, because his movie brother is thinking about testifying against Johnny Friendly, who controls the docks with an iron fist?
In a couple of weeks it’ll be football season again, and then Friday night at high school games it’ll be the three P’s again: pork, poi, pineapple.
Last year at this time, Robert Jameson was one of the student equipment managers for the UNLV football team. Now, he’s one of their wide receivers. That’s a pretty cool story.
I have a pal named Chip who lives near here and has a nice view. When I told him I was coming up for the World Horseshoe Tournament, he drove out there before I even arrived.