Blogs: Now and Then - Las Vegas Sun

I went to a hockey game and a New Mexico women’s soccer match broke out

By Ron Kantowski · November 9, 2009 · 12:16 PM

NOW Charlie Starkweather, meet Elizabeth Lambert. Charlie Starkweather was the guy who murdered 11 people with his girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate and was the inspiration for Bruce Springsteen's chilling and universally acclaimed album "Nebraska." Lambert is the University of New Mexico soccer player who went on a three-state crime spree without leaving the stadium during the Mountain West Conference women's semifinals against BYU over the weekend. OK, murdering 11 people and pulling a Cougar down by her ponytail and punching ...

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Rollie’s team beats Isiah’s team

By Ron Kantowski · November 5, 2009 · 2:25 PM

NOW A team coached by Isiah Thomas (Florida International) lost to a team coached by Rollie Massimino (Northwood) in a college basketball exhibition game last night. As David Letterman used ...

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101 years and counting …

By Ron Kantowski · November 5, 2009 · 10:24 AM

NOW While watching the Yankees celebrate their 27th World Championship Wednesday night we Cub fans recalled the warm, fuzzy feeling we got watching President Teddy Roosevelt congratulate Tinker, Evers and ...

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Le Moyne and lament: Syracuse loses to Division II school

By Ron Kantowski · November 4, 2009 · 12:11 PM

NOW Le Moyne beat Syracuse in basketball Tuesday night. It's always news when Fred Sanford's son single-handedly beats a college hoops juggernaut. I'm sure Grady, Bubba and Rollo were proud. ...

A bagel with straight cream cheese and Choo Choo Coleman

By Ron Kantowski · November 2, 2009 · 4:29 PM

NOW On Sunday morning I was the guest speaker at the Temple Bet Knesset Bamidbar men's club meeting at Durango Hills Golf Club. Although the New York Football Giants were ...

Cliff Lee, meet Gary Wright

By Ron Kantowski · October 29, 2009 · 4:21 PM

NOW I do not really know about the "astral plane" that Gary "Dream Weaver" Wright sang about while pounding on the keyboards in 1976, only that Cliff Lee appeared to ...

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It’s (not) the great Stu Miller, Charlie Brown

By Ron Kantowski · October 28, 2009 · 2:32 PM

NOW Regardless of how long I live, I will never grow weary of Alice Cooper's "From the Inside" concept album of 1978 or E-mails such as this one, from a ...

Kyle Busch gets Raw on Monday Night

By Ron Kantowski · October 27, 2009 · 2:01 PM

NOW Kyle Busch assumed the role of the heel during his appearance as host -- along with NASCAR Nationwide Series teammate Joey Logano -- on "WWE Monday Night Raw" last ...

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Abba dabba do at Primm

By Ron Kantowski · October 27, 2009 · 10:22 AM

NOW I saw U2 on Friday night and "Abba: The Music" at Buffalo Bill's in Primm on Saturday night which isn't as eclectic as one's musical tastes can get in ...

Eddie Bonine’s son now playing golf

By Ron Kantowski · October 22, 2009 · 3:11 PM

NOW Did you know that Detroit Tigers pitcher Eddie Bonine is the son of Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association executive director Eddie Bonine? And that he almost pitched the Tigers into ...