Kealiiholookoa Maruyama finished third in the boys’ 14-15 division in the national finals of the PP&K competition.
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Christian Volesky, Matt Polster and Sal Bernal were among 55 players invited to the MLS combine. All three were Las Vegas prep stars. Volesky and Polster played at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, and Bernal at UNLV.
A lot of American fight fans and boxing experts, including Showtime Boxing’s Al Bernstein, are excited about Bermane Stiverne vs. Deontay Wilder on Saturday night. Bernstein said it’s been more than 20 years since the last excellent, action-packed heavyweight title fight involving Americans, or sort of Americans.
While going through boxes in the garage recently, I found an old cassette tape — one supposes there aren’t any other kind. It was white, with red letters. “A Happy Baseball Birthday.” Under the two little reels were bolder red letters that said: LENNY DYKSTRA.
Rugby players from around the world return to Las Vegas next month. Before the fast-paced action begins on the field — and in the stands — the organizers have to turn the turf football field at Sam Boyd Stadium into a rugby pitch with skinny goalposts, touch and try lines — and living grass.
UNLV lost to UNR in basketball again on Wednesday night, and that was a bad thing if you were Rebels coach Dave Rice, who takes a ration of grief — or something like it — whenever the Rebels stub a toe against the lesser squads of the Mountain West Conference.
Blake Leeper, the “blade runner” with the 10,000-watt smile, on silver and bronze at the 2012 Paralympics. He needs to shave 2.8 seconds off his 400 meter time to become the first American paralympic athlete to qualify for the able-bodied Olympics.
If Tony Sanchez, the new UNLV football coach straight out of high school, wasn’t watching all of the bowl games, one hopes he was watching some of them, or that he has a DVR with extra storage capacity.
On a 1-10 scale, I asked, with one being the guy in the Super Bowl office pool and 10 being Edward Norton in “Rounders,” where would he place himself and the group? “Eleven,” he said.