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Vegas 16 basketball tournament needs a few good teams

The Vegas 16 is the latest edition to the roster of college basketball postseason tournaments. You have the Big Dance, which is the NCAA Tournament. You have the NIT, the CBI, the CIT, the Vegas 16. These are Little Dances, lovely parting gifts, the home game of “Concentration.”

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Rodeo comedian Flint Rasmussen tries to keep cowboys laughing

When he was a little boy in Choteau, Mont., Flint Rasmussen said sometimes he would go to bed and not be able to sleep. He remembers hearing a familiar voice, and the laughter of grown-ups coming from downstairs. The grown-ups were his parents, Stan and Tootsie. The familiar voice was Johnny Carson’s.

 
Wrestler Ghaffari took on Russian Bear instead of Hulkster

It can be awkward when a member of the stick-and-ball sports media finds himself in the midst of Grecos and Romans and other amateur wrestling types on official amateur wrestling business.

Fight game’s pain resonates in song

21 boxing people — 22 if you count local gym owners Pat and Dawn Barry as separate boxing people, though it’s hard to consider those two as anything but a single entity — were inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame at Caesars Palace on Saturday night.

Las Vegas baseball tradition on the downswing?

Mike Bryant, father of Cubs slugger Kris, believes so. “There’s a preponderance of club ball teams, which has decimated the best developmental system there ever was, which was Little League,” he says.

Wrestlers’ climb to Olympics begins at South Point

Logan Stieber won four NCAA individual championships. This weekend, he’s competing at the U.S. Open Wrestling Championship at the South Point, the first rung on the ladder leading to a spot on Team USA and a trip to Rio for the 2016 Olympics.

Eerie quiet overtakes Las Vegas Motor Speedway

On the morning after the 18th Gearhead Christmas, aka the NASCAR Kobalt 400, Las Vegas Motor Speedway seemed a bit forlorn. The massive grandstands were clean and eerily quiet — at least until they fired the engines of the Richard Petty Driving Experience stockers.

Six hours of sights and sounds from NASCAR Race Day

With no competition yellow flags or pickup trucks with mud flaps and big No. 3 decals on back to slow me down, I was able to spend 6 hours, 4 minutes taking in the sights and sounds of NASCAR Race Day.

Las Vegas junior hockey team headed to Canada’s ‘Little League World Series’

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.

Mountain West should take a look at Hamrick’s Herd

Because it’s still college football season — and because UNLV has regressed to its losing ways faster than anybody could have possibly imagined — the subject changes often whenever sports fans gather ’round here this time of year.