Sports Columns
With the series seemingly slipping away from the Boston Celtics, stars Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Rajon Rondo sat on the bench. Who could have predicted the three would fill a valuable role as cheerleaders?
It’s hard for people to take a breath when Don Logan is involved, when about as popular and respected a sports figure in Las Vegas the past three decades seemingly is being pushed out the door from the minor league baseball franchise he has run for most of 27 years.
UNLV shouldn’t hire Tim Chambers to lead its struggling baseball program because he is a terrific coach, having built College of Southern Nevada into a junior college power the last 11 seasons.
It was August 1985 when the 15-year-old baseball prodigy with the sweetest baseball swing since Darryl Strawberry (bet you thought I was going to say Ted Williams) barged into the press box at Ricketts Park, home of the Connie Mack World Series in Farmington, N.M., asked if I was the reporter from the local newspaper and, if so, when did I want to interview him?
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — They tried everything. They wore eye black down the sides of their faces like him. His brother scrawled No. 34 in dirt behind the pitcher’s mound. One teammate wore his jersey. Another hit a home run and, while crossing home plate, held up three fingers on one hand and four on the other.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Maturity is a label often assigned Bryce Harper the baseball player. He doesn’t hit like a 17-year-old, doesn’t adjust like one, doesn’t approach pitchers like one, doesn’t look anything like one when standing in a batter’s box.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — What wasn’t expected: The policeman following our rental car for miles through Utah, finally pulling us over and informing us that the license plates were registered to a Chrysler, which I’m sure would interest the boys back in Las Vegas who gave us a Toyota Rav 4.
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