Jamie Little, the auto racing pit road reporter from Las Vegas, may not officially be the most interesting woman in the world. I have heard, however, that when the Dos Equis beer guy sees her coming, he sometimes turns and heads in another direction.
On Tuesday night, little (but perhaps not for long) Grand Canyon skunked the UNLV baseball team down at 35th and Camelback in Phoenix, the bustling city corner upon which the university sits. The final score was 7-0. Beyond the left-field scoreboard at Brazell Stadium, outfielders could hear the rumble of Valley Metro buses.
A proposed Las Vegas NHL expansion/relocation franchise has reached the halfway mark in its stated goal of obtaining 10,000 season-ticket deposits — great news until you read that when it was decided the Atlanta Thrashers should move to Winnipeg, the Jets locked up 13,000 season-ticket deposits in seven minutes.
Now that the globetrotting HSBC USA Sevens World Series of Rugby is coming off yet another wildly successful installment at Sam Boyd Stadium, we may hold these rugby truths to be self-evident …
There’s something in the sports writer’s code, an unwritten rule, about not asking for autographs. When I heard that Jerry Tarkanian had died Wednesday morning, asking him for his autograph when I was a young sports writer was one of the first things that popped into my mind.
Several NHL stars, including Wayne Gretzky, have played in the Tournoi International de Hockey Pee-Wee de Quebec, an international ice hockey tournament for 11- and 12-year-olds in Canada. The Las Vegas Junior Wranglers will begin play Sunday against a team from Japan.
The Vegas Shoot is the largest indoor archery tournament in the world, with more than 2,500 archers in attendance. They come from faraway places to reach into quivers.
In the junior college ranks, mostly you play winning baseball in a vacuum. But the folks who follow JC baseball have noticed coach Nick Garritano’s Coyotes, ranking them second in the nation in a preseason poll.
Austin Maul, who kicked field goals at Rancho High, played tuba before the Super Bowl. Then he slipped into a 14-foot palm tree costume and danced behind Katy Perry at halftime.
You remember Az Hakim? Little guy from San Diego State who quietly helped lead the St. Louis Rams into Super Bowls XXXIV and XXXVI. He now lives in Las Vegas, where he served as the honorary host of the Big Game 10K on Sunday.
