“We have to do drills outside. We have to do team stuff outside,” Shadow Ridge coach Travis Foster said. “You can’t find a hallway in the building and play football.”
Alex Wright
High School Sports Reporter
Email: awright@reviewjournal.com
Phone: 702-349-2532
Alex Wright joined the Review-Journal staff as a high school sports reporter on October 2022. He was previously a sports intern at the RJ. Alex was born and raised in Las Vegas and is in his fourth year at UNLV, majoring in journalism and media studies, with a concentration in sports media. Alex currently serves as the editor-in-chief for UNLV's student newspaper, the Scarlet & Gray Free Press. He previously was the sports editor for the paper last school year after being a sports staff writer for a year and a half.
The Mountain West released its football preseason poll as voted by the media at the conference’s media days Wednesday in Las Vegas.
High school football in Nevada will look a bit different this year with Class 5A, the top classification, split into three divisions and the introduction of promotion and relegation.
Winners emerged from two competitive semifinals Sunday to earn their spots in Monday’s NBA Summer League title game at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Amid the NBA Summer League and WNBA All-Star Game, 40 top youth basketball players, including Centennial’s Nation Williams, participated in the Jr. NBA Showcase.
Golden State’s Lester Quinones and Milwaukee’s Chris Livingston shined in defeat, and the Final Four of the NBA Summer League is locked in for Sunday.
Former Liberty High star Julian Strawther became the seventh Las Vegas native to be an NBA first-round draft pick, selected by the NBA champion Denver Nuggets.
A Las Vegas swimmer was the youngest member of the U.S. team at the 2020 Olympics at 15 years old. Now, she’s headed to the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Denver forward Hunter Tyson had a nearly perfect shooting first half as he led the Nuggets to a blowout win in an NBA Finals rematch against the Miami Heat.
Brandon Miller has played in the most Summer League games (five) of any of the top five picks in this year’s draft, and he is seeing the benefits of that extra time.
After playing in three games in the Summer League and two at the California Classic, the Charlotte Hornets decided they have seen enough of Brandon Miller.
Rebecca Lobo will work alongside play-by-play man Ryan Ruocco and sideline reporter Holly Rowe on the prime-time broadcast of Saturday’s game in Las Vegas.
Reigning WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson scored 23 of her team-high 25 points in the first half to lead the Aces past the Los Angeles Sparks, improving their record to 19-2.
Oakland selected Grand Canyon shortstop Jacob Wilson No. 6 overall at the MLB draft earlier this week. One expert called the pick “a reach.”
A Hall of Famer and a two-time Cy Young award winner lead the list of the best MLB players who came up through the minor league system and played Triple-A baseball in Las Vegas.