Sports
Seven Questions
J.T. the Brick
The sports-talk host on life as a stockbroker, his exasperation with the BCS and why Lance Armstrong should come clean now
December 20th, 2012
It’s five minutes into his drive-time “Power Hour” show on KBAD 920-AM, and already J.T. the Brick is sparring with his co-host about the topic du jour: Should San Francisco 49ers starting quarterback Alex Smith have lost his job to second-year backup Colin Kaepernick? It’s this kind of energy and passion that helped the New York native morph from John Tournour, the full-time Merrill Lynch stockbroker and part-time radio caller, to J.T. the Brick, the popular local and national radio host. Read more »
Success Stories
These kids can play
November 22nd, 2012
Boulder City High School student Avalon Frantz was recently named one of 12 national finalists for the 2012 Wendy’s High School Heisman Award, which honors students who excel in academics, athletics and community service. The senior, who competes in volleyball and track for the Eagles, could become the second straight Southern Nevadan to win the award, following The Meadows’ Garrett Gosse, who is a freshman quarterback at Princeton after winning the male honor last year. Read more »
About Town
The Stuff of Legends
Two brothers, a swiftly changing culture and the birth of Las Vegas’ latest pro soccer franchise
November 8th, 2012
Brothers Franck and Uzi Tayou are part of an experiment that makes perfect sense in a town where more than one in five people are foreign-born and nearly one in three speak a language other than English at home. The idea: Bring the world’s most popular sport, soccer, to what was the nation’s fastest-growing metropolitan area for most of the past two decades. Read more »
Big League or Bust
October 25th, 2012
It comes as no surprise that the United Football League suspended operations Oct. 20 midway through its fourth season. Players in the four-team league haven’t been getting paid, attendance in each city has been dismal and former Virginia Destroyers coach Marty Schottenheimer just sued the league for $2.3 million in unpaid compensation, following a similar suit by ex-Sacramento coach and general manager Dennis Green. Read more »
Tourism
With PBR, Rodeo’s Heart Will Go On
October 25th, 2012
We’re used to early December being rodeo time in Las Vegas; that’s when the National Finals Rodeo takes over the town. But NFR’s not-so-little cousin, Professional Bull Riders’ Built Ford Tough World Finals, shakes the ground at the Thomas & Mack Center through Oct. 28—and it’s become a local institution in its own right. Read more »
Seven Questions
Gabby Douglas
The Olympic gold medalist on her first visit to Las Vegas, taking a phone call from the president and how she’s able to land on that balance beam
September 13th, 2012
When Gabby Douglas is not winning gold medals in London, taking phone calls from the president, doing The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, chatting with Oprah or flipping around onstage to assist newest pal Alicia Keys during an MTV performance, Douglas comes across like any another teenager eager to talk about her favorite meal at McDonald’s. Read more »
Seven Questions
Mike Pritchard
UNLV football’s radio analyst on the prospects for the 2012 Rebels, why UNR’s program is consistently good and a young NFL receiver to keep an eye on
August 30th, 2012
Few people in Southern Nevada can better gauge what it takes to succeed in football than Mike Pritchard. The 1987 Rancho High School graduate was a star running back with the Rams before attending the University of Colorado, where he was named MVP of Colorado’s 1990 national championship team. He subsequently was selected by the Atlanta Falcons, and also played with the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks. Now entering his seventh year as radio analyst for UNLV football games, the 42-year-old Pritchard will team with new play-by-play announcer Russ Langer, calling the action on ESPN Radio 1100-AM and 98.9-FM, beginning with the Rebels’ season opener against Minnesota on Aug. 30. Read more »
Dear Arizona Cardinals Coach Ken Whisenhunt,
August 30th, 2012
I would like to apply for the position of quarterback. This is not meant as a dig at the other two players who spent the offseason vying for the starting job, Kevin Kolb or John Skelton—well, maybe at Kolb—but rather, it’s the little matter of wanting the team to win several games in a row. Or maybe even clinch the lightweight NFC West, or possibly rack up something better than last season’s skin-of-the-teeth 8-8 record. Read more »
Sports
Hope on Turf
August 30th, 2012
The 100 athletes crammed into a corner of Summerlin’s Las Vegas Indoor Soccer had little in common except fútbol and the Las Vegas Legends T-shirts they’d acquired moments before. “You guys are part of history,” Meir Cohen, the man who owns both the facility and the team, told them. “In a few years you’ll be able to say, ‘I was part of it’—whether you make it or not.” Read more »
Sports
Creating a Killer Logo
July 12th, 2012
We’ve been Quicksilvers and Seagulls, Americans and Dustdevils. Yes, Las Vegas has had a few professional soccer teams—playing both outside and indoors—to claim as its own, although none for very long. But one thing the incoming Las Vegas Legends, an expansion team in the Professional Arena Soccer League (PASL), has that those teams lacked is a kick-ass logo. Read more »
