RJ’s Steve Carp wins Nevada Sportswriter award from national group
Las Vegas Review Journal reporter Steve Carp, who covers the Golden Knights, has been selected as the Nevada Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association, the organization announced this week.
This marked the sixth time the award has been given to Carp, who has been with the Review-Journal since 1999.
Amber Dixon, sports anchor for KSNV-3, was selected as the Nevada Sportscaster of the Year for the first time by the national organization.
Carp, 61, has been in Las Vegas since 1988 when he spent 11 years at the Las Vegas Sun. He has covered UNLV basketball, the 2006 NBA All-Star Game, Team USA Basketball, the NBA Summer League and college basketball tournaments in Las Vegas.
He was the RJ’s boxing and golf writer since 2007 and also has covered professional tennis, pro soccer and pro football. In 2016, he was selected to head the RJ’s coverage of the NHL expansion team that became the Knights.
Carp, the author of “Runnin’,” a book on the history of UNLV basketball, has won numerous writing awards from the Nevada Press Association, and is a past president of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. He was inducted into the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame in 2017.
He will be among those honored from June 23 to 25 at the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Salisbury, North Carolina. Thomas Boswell, Woody Durham, Bryant Gumbel and Dick Weiss will be inducted into the Hall during the event. Also honored will be National Sportscaster of the Year Kevin Harlan and National Sportswriter of the Year Adrian Wojnarowski, and 104 state Sportscasters and Sportswriters of the Year.
