There has been a lot of manipulating outcomes in sports recently, so I am considering becoming a pro golf fan.
Ron Kantowski
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At the start of his Monday news conference, Bobby Hauck, UNLV’s football coach with the 6-34 record — 7-34 now, after coming from three touchdowns down to beat Central Michigan on Saturday night — said he would answer questions only about the Chippewas.
People who follow fisticuffs use a lot of boxing expressions when predicting winners of the big bouts. I have a more proven method for determining who will win. I go to the “news” conference and count entourage members.
Dannielle Lois Diamant, Jerry Tarkanian’s 6-foot-5-inch granddaughter, was caught in a whirlwind Saturday. She was scurrying from one function to the next in Springfield, Mass., to celebrate her grandpa’s long-awaited induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame when her cellphone lit up.
Most people know Kurt Busch as one of NASCAR’s best and most controversial drivers, a supercharged guy who gets out of bed every morning going 190 mph.
One of the featured articles on the official Ironman.com website is called “3 Ways to Solve Your Race Day Stomach Issues.”
It was 6:30 a.m. when the alarm on the clock on Russ Langer’s nightstand went off Saturday. It went off a half-hour earlier than usual. On a normal day, Langer rises at 7.
Within hours of UNLV throwing away a game at Minnesota on opening night of the college football season, I received an offer for two free tickets, essentially, for the Rebels’ “marquee” game against Arizona Saturday night. This was remarkable on various fronts.
Because I fell asleep on the couch while watching the Wyoming football team frighten the daylights out of Nebraska, I didn’t get to Cashman Field to meet some friends until the bottom of the first on Saturday night.
There have been 26 college football seasons since I first rolled across Hoover Dam. There have been three winning ones. It could be argued the Rebels’ run of futility over the past quarter-century is unsurpassed.
For a lot of people, minor league baseball conjures images of long bus trips from one dusty town to the next, of grizzled veterans separating less worldly middle infielders from the Dominican Republic of their per diem money in a poker game before they get to Amarillo. Somebody would be playing a harmonica in the back of the bus. Probably a utility infielder.
Last week, a big kid with a mop of blond hair named Trace Evans hit a home run in 11 consecutive official at-bats to power the Las Vegas Baseball Academy Lightning to the championship of a 104-team tournament at Cooperstown Dreams Park.
Zach Holt is only 14, two years too young to be a pro fisherman on the bass tour. So he had to get a special dispensation from the sanctioning body allowing him to compete in the U.S. Open on Sept. 9-11 on Lake Mead, which is like the Super Bowl of bass fishing for anglers in the Western states who wear caps advertising worm shops.
A few years back, when every shoe company save for Red Wing and Birkenstock was putting on national AAU basketball tournaments in Las Vegas, I wrote about a team from Wahoo, Neb. — which just so happened was one of the “home offices” of the nightly Top 10 list on “Late Show with David Letterman.”
Igor Zaripov, a Las Vegas-based Cirque du Soleil performer and star of the James Cameron-produced “Worlds Away” Cirque du Soleil motion picture in 3D, is a man of many talents. Diverse talents.
