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- Bearded look cuts no ice
- In most cases, on these faces, it produces anything but the ‘meaner and tougher’ image that’s desired
- Tuesday, May 13, 2008
- During their five-year existence the Las Vegas Wranglers have found themselves in any number of hairy predicaments.
- Last week’s Indiana primary brings back hometown memories
- Monday, May 12, 2008
- Last Tuesday I heard my hometown mentioned on CNN — and it had nothing to do with a freak snowstorm or a refinery blowing up.
- Where credit is due
- Ron Kantowski explains why former UNLV coach John Robinson belongs in the hall of fame
- Monday, May 12, 2008
- It has been four years since John Robinson coached the UNLV football team and Mike Sanford, the current UNLV coach, is still blaming him for what’s wrong with it. But hey, what are friends for? When Sanford took the job, he claimed he and Robinson were best buds.
- Fact and fiction collide
- Ron Kantowski finds some surprising parallels between a Japanese cartoon character and Las Vegas’ Kyle Busch
- Saturday, May 10, 2008
- Go, Speed Racer! Go! But watch out for the No. 88 car. (You know, the one Dale Earnhardt Jr. drives.)
- Juleps, giant hats and cigar smoke
- Ron Kantowski takes in the sights, sounds and smells of a locals casino’s race and sports book on Derby Day
- Monday, May 5, 2008
- The Kentucky Derby is often called “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports.”
- Cruel world, unusual spirit
- Ron Kantowski on the UNLV basketball legend who raced to his transplant surgery only to be denied at the 11th hour
- Friday, May 2, 2008
- Though I’m not exactly sure what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment as defined by the U.S. Constitution, I now think I can write my own meaning.
- It’s over, but what a way to go
- Ron Kantowski finds collegiate gymnast Tasha Schwikert looking for a new challenge as she retires from competition.
- Thursday, May 1, 2008
- With all due respect to Brett Favre and Roger Clemens and what they accomplished in their careers, most athletes would prefer to go out the way Tasha Schwikert did at last week’s NCAA gymnastics championships.
- Fixed-game drama uses Rebels clip
- UNLV should sue over ‘Law & Order’ show, sports footage seller says
- Thursday, May 1, 2008
- Here’s a new basketball play UNLV might consider: Filing a lawsuit against NBC and the NCAA for implying in a fictional TV show that the university’s team was involved in a game rigged by a referee.
- Ron Kantowski is convinced versatile driver Kyle Busch could steer a taxi or just about any other vehicle in his native Vegas to victory lane
- Wednesday, April 30, 2008
- In an effort to make this week’s race at Richmond more competitive, NASCAR is considering parking Kyle Busch’s Toyota and assigning him to another vehicle manufactured in Japan.
- In search of the next Rulon Gardner
- Ron Kantowski meets the original while looking for his successor at the national wrestling championships
- Monday, April 28, 2008
- If the ultimate test of man and machine is the Indy 500, then the ultimate test of man and man is boxing. Especially if two Mexican fighters are standing toe to toe. Then comes wrestling.
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