The MGM Grand Garden debuted Jan. 29, 1994 with a boxing match pitting Julio Cesar Chavez against a lesser lightweight named Frankie Randall. Big-time prizefighting in Las Vegas was about to undergo a seismic shift.
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Ron Kantowski is a sports columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covering a variety of topics and the Las Vegas sports scene.
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The Continental Cup at Orleans Arena starts Thursday and will attract Olympians and world champions as well as thousands of curling enthusiasts.
It was 11:30 Wednesday morning when the J.T. Realmuto Baseball Winter Meetings morphed into the Scott Boras Show. The super agent held a news conference to update media on client Bryce Harper’s free-agent status.
On opening night at the NFR, Mason Clements drew a horse named Colorado Bulldog and rode him to a score of 86.5 points. He finished second in the go-round and earned $26,230.77.
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson raised $800,000 for charitable causes through side bets that, like Charles Barkley’s commentary, were supposed to make their $9 million golf match more interesting.
Just when you thought the $9 million, winner-take-all, made-for-pay TV golf match between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson couldn’t get any more surreal it did.
Eric Wynalda showed a reporter a cellphone video he had recorded in the wee hours of Nov. 9. It showed a red fireball moving toward his home in the hills above Ventura County, California.
Cameron Champ trails co-leaders Bryson DeChambeau and Peter Uihlein by three shots heading into the final round of the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, but he’s the leader in the clubhouse as far as oohs and aahs for the way he strikes a golf ball.
Unless you count the Shriners who wandered inside the ropes to retrieve wind blown fezzes, Kenny Perry was the oldest guy on the golf course Thursday when the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open began at TPC Summerlin.
Olympic gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings and husband Casey of Las Vegas are partners in a new pro volleyball tour which makes its Las Vegas debut starting Wednesday at Las Vegas Festival Grounds.
In the five years since his foundation was founded to create awareness in organ donation, former UNLV soccer star Simon Keith has raised more than a million dollars for youngsters in need of lifesaving organ transplants.
Associated Press national sports columnist Tim Dahlberg will be inducted into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame Saturday, honoring a long and ongoing career in journalism.
On Tuesday, the Raiders joined forces with Taylor Elementary School in Henderson so students don’t have to go to school hungry and can brush their teeth.
With stock car racing in a downward spiral, Las Vegas Motor Speedway prepares to host its second NASCAR weekend of 2018.
As the final seconds of their inaugural season filtered through the hourglass and the clock around Flavor Flav’s neck, it occurred that the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces had lasted longer than the Las Vegas Posse of the Canadian Football League.