Ed Graney came to the Review-Journal in May of 2006 as its lead sports columnist. He has covered all major sporting events, including Super Bowls to NBA championships to every Final Four since 1995. Graney also covered the Olympic Games in Beijing (2008) and London (2012). A graduate of San Diego State University, he is a five-time Nevada Sportswriter of the Year and past winner of Associated Press Sports Editors Top 10 for columns. He and wife Bonnie have two children, a son (Tristan) and daughter (Bridget).
This isn’t what Raiders fans imagined when they celebrated Gruden returning as head coach, his decision to trade the team’s best player in Khalil Mack, a defensive end in his prime who should he continue on a current trajectory of production, will one day be sized for a gold blazer in Canton.
Saturday marks just the second time UNLV football will meet Southern California, the first being a 1997 game in which Jon Denton and the Rebels had a chance to take the lead in the fourth quarter before falling.
The team has proposed four off-site locations to accommodate event parking, all spelled out in a report from a planning consultant and scheduled to be considered by the Clark County Commission on Sept. 5.
Cristian Garcia reached his current position through hard work and faith and defying odds, along the way stepping in to prevent a 19-year-old woman from a possible sexual assault.
Prep football has again kicked off across the valley, and there is every chance Fox has, in his sixth season as coach of the Crusaders, his most talented side yet.
Never in this space will you find a hint of defending any level of domestic abuse, but what happened at Ohio State only reinforces a troublesome truth: Coaches such as Urban Meyer are paid to win games. That’s it.
While some continue to update daily odds on which teams would most likely trade for the defensive star, the fact remains that Mack’s holdout is more standard than atypical.
The Aces have lost six of their past eight games, and in those defeats, they allowed opponents an average of 103 points while watching them shoot 52 percent from the field and 41 percent on 3s.
It has been true all along that the Golden Knights could prove even better than last season and still not come close to advancing as far in the playoffs.
Sanchez had a choice about how to assemble from scratch — there is no such thing thing as rebuilding a program with one winning season since 2001 — and wisely picked the correct but yet often painstakingly slow option.
Jon Gruden loves veteran players and the Raiders, as much as any team, offer them second chances at continuing careers and proving others wrong, both of which the former Green Bay star can pursue.
New defensive coordinator Paul Guenther and his 4-3 scheme hoping to improve all that ailed the Raiders last season.
If anger among Raiders fans about the relocation to Southern Nevada was a central theme at last year’s training camp, such a sentiment has now seemed to move toward more of an acceptance.
Jon Gruden is back, animated as ever, lover of all things silver and black, overseeing his first training camp for the Raiders since being traded to Tampa Bay following the 2001 season.
DeMar DeRozan is the latest athlete to bring the concept of loyalty into headlines, the NBA star in Las Vegas with USA Basketball after having been traded from Toronto to San Antonio for Kawhi Leonard.
