Sports
UNLV Golf
Scarlet and Gray on the Greens
The PGA Tour’s stop in Las Vegas may have lost some luster, but for former UNLV stars it’s a chance to recapture some old Rebel magic
September 22nd, 2011
If you go to the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open expecting to see golf’s biggest names, well, expect to be disappointed. Ever since the PGA Tour restructured its schedule several years ago, essentially relegating the Las Vegas stop to second-tier status, golf’s big shots have avoided our local tournament like you do your 3-wood on a blustery day. Read more »
Sports
Rising Son
Ryan Couture following in famous footsteps of UFC champion father
September 22nd, 2011
He doesn’t have the physique of his famous father, nor his fighting style, but Ryan Couture hopes to carry on the Mixed Martial Arts legacy of five-time UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture. The younger Couture, 29, knows comparisons are inevitable—and he takes them as an inspiration. “I just take it as a challenge to try to build enough of a résumé that eventually my last name—and my relationship to Dad—will be a footnote rather than the main story.” Read more »
Seven Questions
Pete Rose
The Hit King on the likelihood his record will ever be broken, who’s going to win the World Series and why he agreed to a lifetime ban from baseball
September 15th, 2011
It’s been 26 years since Pete Rose broke Ty Cobb’s hallowed record for most career hits in Major League Baseball. And it’s been more than 22 years since Rose set foot on an MLB field in an official capacity, having been permanently banned in August 1989 for betting on baseball. Despite a full confession, countless mea culpas and several attempts at reinstatement, Rose remains persona non grata in baseball, a punishment he estimates has cost him “conservatively, $60 million,” not to mention a spot in the Hall of Fame. Read more »
The Latest
Homegrown Heroes
July 28th, 2011
Years before Lionel Hollins won an NBA championship in 1977 as a starting guard on the Portland Trail Blazers, and decades before he coached the Memphis Grizzlies into this year’s playoffs, he was just another Las Vegas kid trying to figure out his future. Hollins retraced his journey July 21 at the Pearson Community Center in North Las Vegas as the featured honoree at the first Homegrown Professional Players Day. Read more »
Community & Culture
Best Sports Franchise
July 28th, 2011
The Las Vegas Locomotives are the two-time defending United Football League champions and, well, they’re our only professional football team. Read more »
Seven Questions
Norman Chad
The ESPN commentator talks about the WSOP’s appeal, his TV favorites and the best way to pick NFL winners
July 14th, 2011
Norman Chad doesn’t even play Texas hold ’em, but he’s ingrained himself into the consciousness of poker players and television viewers worldwide with his one-liners and self-deprecating shtick since he first became a World Series of Poker announcer for ESPN in 2003. When the mustachioed funnyman is not cracking jokes about one of his ex-wives, penning his syndicated sports column “Couch Slouch” for The Washington Post or in front of his beloved TV—Chad can be found playing almost every other form of the game he covers for six months out of the year. Read more »
UNLV Legend
Velvet Hammer
Remembering Rebel great Armon Gilliam
July 8th, 2011
Armon Gilliam, one of the greatest players in UNLV basketball history, died from an apparent heart attack during a pickup basketball game outside Pittsburgh on July 5. Fans will remember him as an indomitable power forward who led the Rebels to a 37-2 record and the NCAA Final Four in 1987. Read more »
Sports
Kid Speed
June 30th, 2011
The career of budding motor sports star Dylan Kwasniewski has continued to pick up momentum since the teenager was featured in Vegas Seven on March 3. Read more »
Dispatch
Beyond the Fences
Can a stadium really help revive a downtown? In Reno, it’s happening right now.
June 16th, 2011
The ballpark has drawn spectators from throughout Northern Nevada and eastern California, says Chuck Alvey, president and chief executive officer of the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada. That could mean a continuing renaissance for the area—a minor-league version of the changes the San Francisco Giants’ AT&T Park brought to a gritty industrial waterfront. Read more »
Sports
Future on Ice
June 16th, 2011
The NHL Awards show is returning to the Palms on June 22 for the third straight year, but the future of the event is uncertain. Its contract with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority expires this year, and there’s hot competition from places that actually have hockey teams, such as Los Angeles and New York. Read more »
