Review-Journal columnist and features writer Sam Gordon found a host of interesting subjects in 2023, including boxer Canelo Alvarez and NBA star LeBron James.
Basketball
UNLV women’s basketball team has won two straight Mountain West titles but is hungry for a third as conference play begins Saturday.
Review-Journal reporter Adam Hill covered a little bit of everything in 2023, and his best-of list reflects that. Check out his top stories of the year.
UNLV’s basketball team played by far its best game of the Kevin Kruger Era on Wednesday night, routing No. 8 Creighton at the Dollar Loan Center.
No wonder LeBron James wants to own an NBA franchise in Las Vegas. It’s a city he personifies in personality and play as he seeks the In-Season Tournament title.
It was an egregious, reprehensible, deplorable, humiliating, inconceivable, embarrassing loss for UNLV’s once-proud men’s basketball program. But it’s only one loss.
The NCAA announced a horrible decision Friday that will ruin the beauty of college basketball’s NIT, and Las Vegas was at the center of it.
At 27, Aces superstar A’ja Wilson is already among Sin City’s greatest all-time athletes — armed with two WNBA championships and a pair of MVPs to show for it.
The Aces are the greatest team in WNBA history, with all-time great talent and statistics that reflect their historical dominance.
By dominating in the WNBA postseason, Aces star A’ja Wilson is proving she isn’t just the rightful regular-season MVP but one of the best players in league history.
Aces guard Kelsey Plum scored a game-high 26 points Sunday in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals, relying not on her shooting but rather her improved finishing around the rim.
We don’t get this often in sports, two super teams — the Aces and New York Liberty — fighting it out for a championship. Think of the Lakers and Celtics back in the day.
Now 27 and approaching the peak of her powers, Wilson should be rightfully rewarded for one of the greatest single seasons in the WNBA’s 27-year history.
In two matchups against the New York Liberty without do-it-all-forward Candace Parker, the Aces have been outscored by 57 points and outrebounded 97-52.
The exhibition game, in front of an enthused crowd that included NBA stars Kevin Durant and Draymond Green and boxing legend Floyd Mayweather, was a tuneup for the FIBA World Cup.