Former Heisman Trophy winners Johnny Rodgers and Mike Rozier play golf to assist Susan Spencer’s A Level Playing Field foundation for Las Vegas’ inner-city youth.
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With the NHL and NFL soon to call Las Vegas home, bringing minor league soccer to town might not be such a good idea anymore.
Long-suffering Chicago transplants whoop it up as Cubs beat Dodgers for first World Series berth in 71 years.
The NCAA’s APR — Academic Progress Rate — is like WAR in baseball, but even more convoluted. It has been in the news a lot at UNLV during the Rebels’ search for a new basketball coach.
Remember that critically acclaimed but short-lived TV show called “Men of a Certain Age” starring Ray Romano, about guys who were closing in hard on middle age and trying just as hard to deal with it?
It was in the wee hours of the morning when the bulletin declared it an official game, that lovable Yogi Berra had died at age 90.
A few years ago when I was waiting to catch a plane in Kansas City, my brother-in-law took me to the site of old Municipal Stadium, after which we had lunch at Arthur Bryant’s barbecue just down the street. Then it was on to the Negro Leagues Hall of Fame on East 18th Street.
The Las Vegas Sin of the LFL doesn’t play its home games in Las Vegas anymore and the players don’t get paid much, if anything. But the players still have great stories — such as Cynthia Schmidt, who was an officer in the Indiana National Guard.
Judge Bill Jansen, who was justice of the peace in Las Vegas for 26 years, traveled to his first Indianapolis 500 in a Packard Clipper, if that tells you anything. The year was 1949. The track still was made of bricks.
Young Christ Trickle won Oct. 4 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring in just his third start in a Super Late Model stock car. The 14-year-old driver has a heavy right foot and a famous name.