Ray Brewer
Managing Editor
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Sports
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 ...
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Sports
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 ..
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Basketball
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 ...
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News
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 ...
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Breaking News
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” ...
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Features
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.
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Features
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.
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UNLV
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 ...
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Sports
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.”
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Sports
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 ...