Ray Brewer

Managing Editor

Ray Brewer, a proud local, has been part of Greenspun Media Group since the mid-1990s. He’s covered high school and UNLV sports, and managed the Las Vegas Sun’s award-winning website. He’s a graduate of Chaparral High School and UNLV, and a fierce defender of Las Vegas — especially in comparisons to Reno. Brewer and his wife, Karla, have two children. And they all are passionate about the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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BLM to round up wild horses, burros outside of Las Vegas: Tuesday, April 23, 2024; The Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday will start rounding up wild horses and burros outside of Las Vegas to prevent the degradation of public lands, officials said this morning. No helicopters will be used in ...
Marc-André Fleury will play one more NHL season; signs extension with Wild: Wednesday, April 17, 2024; Marc-André Fleury was consistently asked this season about when he would be retiring from the NHL. The legendary goalie ...
Noah Hanifin gets 8-year extension from Golden Knights: Thursday, April 11, 2024; The Golden Knights gave up conditional first- and third-round draft picks last month in acquiring defenseman Noah Hanifin ..
Las Vegas program seeks to prepare LGBTQ+ candidates for future runs: Thursday, April 11, 2024; A Las Vegas nonprofit is planning a summer leadership academy for political hopefuls from the LGBTQ+ community looking to launch a campaign …
Las Vegas conventions, tourism continue to rebound from pandemic: Tuesday, April 9, 2024; The Las Vegas convention industry and tourism in general continued their recovery last year from the height of the coronavirus pandemic, a report released today said. Las Vegas welcomed 6 million conventioneers last year, a 19.9% increase from 2022 ...
NC State’s run to Final Four revives memories for ’83 UNLV team: Saturday, April 6, 2024; The UNLV basketball team was ranked No. 1 nationally for the first time in program history in 1983. As a reward, coach Jerry Tarkanian had ...
Aces moving July game to bigger arena in anticipation of facing Caitlin Clark: Friday, April 5, 2024; The Las Vegas Aces are moving their July 2 home game against the Indiana Fever from Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay to the larger T-Mobile Arena, the team announced today. Indiana holds the top pick in ...
Slot player hits $1.1 million jackpot at downtown Las Vegas casino: Tuesday, April 2, 2024; Las Vegas is affectionately referred to as the Ninth Island because of its many visitors from Hawaii. One Hawaiian visitor will return home with a great story to tell — and more than ...
Henderson sports arena being renamed Lee’s Family Forum: Tuesday, April 2, 2024; The Dollar Loan Center in Henderson is being renamed Lee’s Family Forum, officials said this morning. The new name for the 5,567-seat sports arena off Green Valley Parkway ...
Rulings back Sun in legal battle with R-J: Amended JOA is ruled valid; Sun’s antitrust claims cleared for trial; Tuesday, April 2, 2024; A federal judge weighing competing motions for summary judgment in the Las Vegas Sun’s antitrust lawsuit against the Las Vegas Review-Journal has issued a sweeping set of rulings that strongly ...
Jarvis Basnight, who played on UNLV’s 1987 Final Four team, dies at 59: Monday, April 1, 2024; Visitors to the UNLV basketball team’s practice facility are greeted with a mannequin dressed a warm-up jersey that belonged to Jarvis Basnight, the high-flying post player from the 1987 Final Four team. Staffers found ...
Chaparral senior finds solace on volleyball court amid loss: Friday, March 29, 2024; Ioane Tauiliili jogged onto the court for the Chaparral High School volleyball team and briefly glanced toward the stands. It was a road game across town at Spring Valley High, yet Tauiliili’s cheering section was ...
Organizers: Candidate forum important for nonpartisan voters in Clark County: Sunday, March 24, 2024; Vote Nevada, a nonprofit civic engagement group founded by a group of Las Vegas women, is determined to find solutions to help strengthen the community. Their previous forum ...
NCAA-bound Lady Rebels coach, like her father, fueled by competitive drive: Tuesday, March 19, 2024; Coach Lindy La Rocque is greeted with a text message when she picks up her phone after every UNLV women’s basketball game. The message is from her dad, Al La Rocque, and usually reads: “Nice win, coach” ...
UNLV basketball takes NIT bid, will travel to face Princeton in opener: Sunday, March 17, 2024; The UNLV basketball team is heading back to the postseason for the first time in more than a decade. The Rebels were picked ...
Pay to play: Youth sports have become an expensive, stressful burden on families: Thursday, March 14, 2024; There’s a misconception that young athletes need to focus only on one sport or have their families excessively invest in specialized training to succeed.
Brewer: It’s time to get off the conveyor belt of paying to play youth sports: Thursday, March 14, 2024; The cost and participation requirements have become so abusive that it’s taken an activity that long provided meaningful exercise and friendships and turned it into an unneeded burden.
Dozens turn out to celebrate revered Rebel Robert Smith's 69th birthday: Tuesday, March 12, 2024; Robert Smith sits at a table at the Boulder Creek Golf Club with a half-eaten pulled pork sandwich and baked beans in front of him. Smith, the UNLV basketball great and member of the Rebels’ 1977 Final Four team, is posing for photos and greeting visitors — even if it means ...
Football great Sawyer leads UNLV Athletics Hall of Fame class: Thursday, March 7, 2024; Talance Sawyer arrived in Las Vegas for a recruiting trip with the UNLV football team in the mid-1990s, saw the bright lights of the Strip and knew he had found a home ...
UNLV's defensive leader Jackson Woodard is a man on a mission: Thursday, March 7, 2024; UNLV football player Jackson Woodard settled in at his apartment near campus on Swenson Avenue after the team returned to town last November following a win at Air Force. He noticed there was a persistent light shining into his unit. He opened the window to realize it was the LED display coming from the nearby Sphere, or as Woodard calls it, the “greatest video screen in the world.”
Anti-trans comments draw demands for Nevada regent’s resignation: Wednesday, March 6, 2024; Nevada Faculty Alliance is demanding that Regent Patrick Boylan resign, saying comments he made Friday about the transgender community during a quarterly Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents meeting violated the board’s anti-discrimination resolution. In a statement, the alliance — which advocates on behalf of faculty and ...
Faith Lutheran senior a finalist for Naismith courage award: Tuesday, March 5, 2024; Graydon Lemke manned his station at the homeless shelter for a community service project not knowing what to expect. As the line of needy Las Vegans were served ...
Alumnus-turned-coach values every one of his basketball championships at Gorman: Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024; Mike Wright has gone from being part of state championship basketball programs as a player at Bishop Gorman High School to winning them as coach there. Friday, his championship ways were ...
UNLV's Doug Brumfield medically retiring from football: Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024; UNLV quarterback Doug Brumfield is medically retiring from football, he announced this afternoon on social media.
Latest polling finds Biden has work to do in Nevada: Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024; Nevada voters have picked the Democrat in each of the last four presidential elections dating to Barack Obama’s victory in 2008 against John McCain of Arizona. Take 2020, when Joe Biden narrowly defeated incumbent ...
Bishop Gorman player makes most of lone season, lifts Gaels over Coronado for state title: Friday, Feb. 23, 2024; Bishop Gorman’s Noah Westbrook tore his knee so badly in the fall of 2021 that it required surgery and a year of rehabilitation. Westbrook had 13 points on 6 of 8 shooting and 9 rebounds in the Class 5A state championship game against Coronado ...
Bishop Gorman basketball closes strong in Class 5A semifinal win: Friday, Feb. 23, 2024; Ryder Elisaldez has seen the banner documenting the Bishop Gorman High basketball program’s state championships hanging in the team’s locker room countless times. He’s always envisioned having a role in adding the 23rd all-time title to the banner. Today will be his last chance. Gorman and Coronado ...
Nevada high school sports alignment robs teams of true state championship experience: Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024; The game at Orleans Arena had been over for about 30 minutes, but there was still a certain buzz in the air created by one of the greatest high school basketball games in Nevada history. The operator didn’t ...
Vegas' Bryce Harper wants longer deal with Phillies to go in his 40s: Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024; Bryce Harper wants to finish his career with the Philadelphia Phillies, playing into his 40s and perhaps gloving a throw at first base for the final out of a World Series.
On Super Bowl Sunday, the Raiders spread the wealth: Monday, Feb. 12, 2024; Sunrise Mountain High football coach Chris Sawyers received a pair of Super Bowl tickets from the Raiders last week. He promptly told his wife, Brandi, that they would be ...
GOP caucus participation down in Nevada, despite Trump claims: Friday, Feb. 9, 2024; Republicans were quick to boast about long lines outside caucus locations Thursday as people turned out to support former President Donald Trump. Some loyalists waited ...
Conservative media tripped up explaining how Nevada GOP caucuses work: Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024; If you are confused about today’s caucuses hosted by the Nevada Republican Party, you aren’t alone. Even Newsmax — the party’s cable news outlet mouthpiece — can’t seem to get it righ
LIV Golf League debuts at LV Country Club: Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024; LIV Golf League is making its debut in Las Vegas this week by design.
Voters in Nevada give Biden support; GOP worried about turnout for caucuses: Report: GOP not well-equipped to run the caucuses; Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024; Clark County residents encountered rain and overcast conditions Tuesday when they left their homes for the polls to vote in the first Nevada presidential preference primary. Even though President Joe Biden was a lock to win his ...
Nevada Democrats turn out for Biden; 'none of these' wins GOP side: Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024; Nevada’s presidential primary on Tuesday produced one result many expected: President Joe Biden was the runaway winner against a noncompetitive field.
It's here: Las Vegas puts on a show for opening night as host of Super Bowl: Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024; Las Vegas has long arrived as a premiere destination for events, bringing the NFL Draft, Stanley Cup Final, Las Vegas Grand Prix, NCAA Tournament and plenty of notable fights. Yet, this week is different ...
Chalk up another win for Liberty in basketball rivalry with Gorman: Friday, Feb. 2, 2024; The basketball players on the Liberty High School bench were on their feet tonight in the final seconds of the Patriots 72-65 win over Bishop Gorman.
Culinary reaches deals with 6 Las Vegas casinos: Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024; Three more Las Vegas properties have come to an agreement with the Culinary Workers Union on a new five-year contract for hospitality workers, the union announced tonight. The 780 workers at ...
More than 100,000 Nevadans have already cast primary ballots: Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024; Nearly 10% of Nevada’s 1.15 million registered voters have cast a ballot in the preferred presidential primaries through Tuesday, according to the Nevada secretary of state. Data from the secretary of state’s ...
Report: Republicans fighting ahead of meeting in Las Vegas: Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024; Hundreds of Republicans gathered Monday in Las Vegas ahead of the Republican National Committee's winter meetings to "vent their grievances about the ...
New Las Vegas Lights coach familiar with developing younger talent: Monday, Jan. 29, 2024; The Las Vegas Lights will be coached in the upcoming United Soccer League season by Dennis Sanchez, who last season was an assistant with Austin FC II.
Chiefs, 49ers heading to Las Vegas for Super Bowl: Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024; Las Vegas’ first Super Bowl is set: The Chiefs will take on the 49ers. The 49ers overcame a 17-point halftime deficit in the NFC Championship Game today ...
Prep basketball teams in Las Vegas must forfeit games for bench-clearing fight: Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024; Association rules dictate that any game stopped for a fight is scored a double forfeit — regardless of the score when the fight was initiated.
Two weeks to go until its caucuses, and Nevada GOP still seeking volunteers: Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024; The Nevada Republican Party is seeking volunteers to man the undetermined number of sites in the Las Vegas area for its “First in the West” caucuses early next month. Jesse Law, chairman of the Clark County GOP, sent an email this week with the subject line, “Need Volunteers for the Caucus!” The note detailed needing volunteers for ...
UNLV football to host Syracuse in October: Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024; The UNLV football team has a late addition to its 2024 schedule and will host Syracuse on Oct. 5 at Allegiant Stadium, UNLV announced today. Syracuse replaces Army, which had to ...
Coronado basketball gets historic win over Bishop Gorman: Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024; Jeff Kaufman is in his 18th season coaching the Coronado High basketball team.
On the Golden Gate’s 118th anniversary, officials mark hotel’s unique legacy: Friday, Jan. 19, 2024; Those 10 rooms at the Golden Gate, which debuted 118 years ago in 1906, are still available to guests. And on some nights, you can book your spot for a more-than-reasonable $24. It’s part of the unique history ...
Voters rage over GOP primary ballots in Nevada; party officials mum: Friday, Jan. 19, 2024; Republican voters in Nevada are expressing confusion and anger about the ballot they received in the mail this week for the upcoming presidential preference primary ...
One season in, Odom has secured a promising future for UNLV football: Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024; In his first season in Las Vegas, Barry Odom led UNLV to its first nine-win season since 1984, was the Mountain West Coach of the Year and was a finalist for national coach of the year honors.
New owner Jose Bautista wants to build winner with Las Vegas Lights: Baseball slugger: 'I hope winning will attract fans'; Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024; Retired baseball slugger Jose Bautista is the primary investor in an ownership group purchasing the Las Vegas Lights. Bautista, who clubbed 344 home runs in ...