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July 24, 2008

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Team USA's Canada tune-up won’t be much to talk a-boot
Ron Kantowksi foresees gold, even if observers are tuning in for an implosion
Our Olympic basketball team is going to play Canada at the Thomas & Mack Center on Friday night in an exhibition game that might be interesting only if the Canadians were allowed to play on skates and Wayne Gretzky weren’t busy.
Mountain West Conference Commissioner Craig Thompson, in his State of the Conference address at Gree
Ron Kantowski thinks it’s swell The Mtn. finally has a national TV hookup, but wishes the wind would stop knocking the camera around
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
In keeping with the spirit of the weekend, I thought it would have been really cool if Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson had made his annual State of the Conference address dressed as the Joker.
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ an anachronism
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Guest Columnist:
Today a House armed services subcommittee will begin the first serious examination in 15 years of the federal law commonly known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and its effect on our clearly overextended military’s ability to fight two wars in the Middle East. The law prohibits gays and lesbians from serving openly in our armed forces.
The World Poker Tour's founder, Steve Lipscomb, says fans should cheer the move to Fox Sports Networ
Jeff Haney learns of the pluses of World Poker’s new network deal from the tour’s founder: More drama in less time, and an innovative TV ally
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Even the founder of the World Poker Tour acknowledges a quirk, an inherent flaw, in the presentation of the organization’s made-for-TV tournaments to date.
Micah Brand waves to friends Saturday after being introduced by coach Jae Hur as the first round pic
Pro hoops with a little Seoul
Monday, July 21, 2008
That's what Ron Kantowski found after traveling all the way to Paradise Road to take in the Korean Basketball League draft
It is 5,983 miles from Las Vegas to Seoul, so I suppose holding the Korean Basketball League draft in Las Vegas, which they did Saturday afternoon, makes perfect sense.
Jeff Haney has it straight from an authoritative source, oddsmakers, that Notre Dame is to improve the most
Friday, July 18, 2008
ODDS ’N’ ENDS:
After suffering its worst season since 1963 last year, Notre Dame emerged in early preseason chatter as a prime candidate to become college football’s most improved team. This week it became official ... or at least as official as it gets in Las Vegas. Oddsmakers set a line, and gamblers can bet into it.
The Charlotte Bobcats Summer League team loosens up before playing the Los Angeles Clippers Summer L
Ron Kantowski creates a quiz to test whether fans are tuned in to the NBA’s Vegas Summer League
Friday, July 18, 2008
Summer League, Summer League, Sum-Sum-Summer League. Twenty-one teams. Ten days. Fifty-three games.
Ryan Ludwick, left, of the St. Louis Cardinals and David Wright of the New York Mets wait to take ba
Ron Kantowski says for him the 2008 All-Star Game, Yankee Stadium’s last, will be most memorable for the appearance of a Las Vegan and UNLV alum
Thursday, July 17, 2008
This is what I will remember most about the final All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium. That Ryan Ludwick, a kid — make that a 30-year-old man — from Las Vegas made the All-Star Game, and Joe Buck, the son of a Hall of Fame broadcaster and one of the best in the business himself, couldn’t explain that development any better than the rest of us.
Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico will take on Antonio Margarito of Mexico on July 26 at the MGM Grand Gar
Jeff Haney says despite lopsided betting lines, expect the welterweight title fight between Cotto and Margarito to be among the best bouts this year
Thursday, July 17, 2008
ODDS ’N’ ENDS:
For a boxing match righteously hyped as a fight of the year candidate, the gambling action in the July 26 welterweight world title bout has been decidedly lopsided in favor of Miguel Cotto.
Elko Embarrassment No. 3 may be coup de grace
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
What happens in Elko doesn’t stay in Elko for Jim Gibbons. Three years ago, he unleashed a maniacal, frothing vituperation against liberals that was first noteworthy for its hyperventilating rhetoric and then infamous because it was pilfered from, of all people, an Alabama state auditor. Elko Embarrassment No. 1.
Joe Bishop, right, exclaims that he's going all in Monday against Chris Klodnicki, center, during th
And then there were nine
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
THE INSIDE STRAIGHT: Jeff Haney wonders whether World Series’ 117-day hiatus is too long
After 11 days of play in the World Series of Poker main event, the starting field of 6,844 players in the game’s premier tournament has been whittled down to ... nine guys you never heard of.
Former Mountain West standout Josh Davis is covered by Andray Blatche during a Summer League game Mo
Contented, yet still hoping for another shot
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Ron Kantowski says former Wyoming star has had quite a run, even if he doesn’t get back into the NBA
“If it ended tomorrow, I’d be satisfied,” said Josh Davis, a former Mountain West standout now playing in the Vegas Summer League. “I got to play in the NBA ... And yet I’m not satisfied, because I want to get back there.”
The Sacramento Kings take on the Toronto Raptors on Saturday during the NBA Summer League at Cox Pav
Practice packs them in
Monday, July 14, 2008
Ron Kantowski sees interest in pro basketball growing in Las Vegas, as evidenced by Summer League crowds
A funny thing happened on the way to the mini-Forum — er, Cox Pavilion — Saturday afternoon.
How two trades affected World Series odds
Monday, July 14, 2008
Betting odds on the success of the Milwaukee Brewers in baseball’s postseason play took a hit in the past week after the team’s big trade for left-hander C.C. Sabathia from the Cleveland Indians.
How the sinking Republican ship could take Bob Beers and Joe Heck down with it
Sunday, July 13, 2008
As Democrats here gush about their ever-widening registration advantage, the chances for Barack Obama to win the state and Dina Titus’ opportunity to erase Jon Porter from Congress, the conventional wisdom on the party’s ability to take control of the state Senate has been less sanguine and very simple: It is virtually nil.
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