Ray Brewer
Managing Editor
Story Archive
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UNLVOdom authored blueprint; his successor must sustain momentum for UNLV
Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024 Yes, Barry Odom is no longer the coach of your football team. And, yes, the architect of a program that went from perennial two-win seasons to being ranked in the top 25 and on verge of ...
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UNLVUNLV Student Spotlight of the Month: Silverado's Diego Ramirez
Monday, Dec. 9, 2024 Silverado High School student Diego Ramirez was set to address colleagues at the Nevada Association of Student Councils with hopes of earning a leadership position.
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SportsA's Player of the Month: Coronado's Gavin Flickinger
Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024 Coronado High junior forward Gavin Flickinger noticed opposing teams starting to game plan to stop him.
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UNLVUNLV football jumps two spots in rankings to No. 19
Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024 The stakes are high for the showdown against Boise State, with the winner potentially earning a spot in the inaugural, 12-team College Football Playoff.
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SportsBishop Gorman quarterback goes from backup to state title game standout
Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024 Quarterback Maika Eugenio wasn’t expected to be one of the most consistent players on the Bishop Gorman football team.
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SportsNew champs: Slam Nevada, Mojave win state football titles
Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024 Damien Nevil had four touchdowns and quarterback Alaijah Young was masterful in managing the game, helping the Bulls to a 34-30 win. They snapped Truckee’s 34-game ...
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Breaking NewsA pair of Hawaii coaching transplants leads Mojave to state championship game
Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024 After some initial struggles, the men have done wonders with the Rattlers’ program. Mojave had just one victory in 2019, didn’t compete in 2020 because COVID eliminated the season ...
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Breaking NewsBishop Gorman’s football legacy built on pride, perseverance
Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024 The Gaels have won 14 of the past 16 state championships, going from competing for a Nevada crown to becoming a national brand. They have been voted national champions four times since 2014 and are ranked in ...
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SportsHome means Allegiant Stadium for Nevada prep football title teams
Monday, Nov. 25, 2024 Come Tuesday afternoon, Slam will be playing in a $2 billion stadium near the Las Vegas Strip. The Bulls at 12:20 p.m. will take on Truckee, Calif. ...
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Breaking NewsLois Tarkanian, education champion and staunch supporter of UNLV basketball, dies at 90
Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024 Lois Tarkanian, who devoted her life to promoting public education in Las Vegas and supporting the players on her husband’s college basketball teams, died peacefully Sunday. She was 90.
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UNLVUNLV kicker Chittenden grabs weekly league award
Monday, Nov. 18, 2024 UNLV’s freshman place kicker Caden Chittenden was named the Mountain West Special Teams Player of the week, the league announced on Monday.
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UNLVUNLV football back in national rankings at No. 23
Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024 The program reached the top-25 for the first time in school history in September when it debuted in the Coaches’ Poll. Two weeks later ...
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SportsCanyon Springs, Mojave to play for Class 4A football title
Friday, Nov. 15, 2024 Mojave’s defense stopped Losee on the 5-yard line in the final seconds to secure the win and advance to face Canyon Springs Nov. 26 for the Class 4A state title at Allegiant Stadium ...
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Sports'Job's not finished': Arbor View advances to state football title game
Friday, Nov. 15, 2024 Seconds after the Arbor View High football team put the finishing touches on a 37-21 victory against Coronado in the Class 5A, Division-I state semifinals, the public address announcer ...
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PoliticsNearly 14,000 mail ballots in Nevada have signature issues
Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024 Nearly 14,000 Nevada voters must verify their identity with election officials to cure the signature on their mail-in ballots or their votes won’t count ...
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PoliticsUNLV professor says R-J wrongly suggests she backs Trump’s economic plans
Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024 A headline initially used in a Las Vegas Review-Journal online story implied that a UNLV professor was endorsing Donald Trump for president ...
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UNLVBrewer: No moral victory for UNLV football in painful loss to Boise State
Friday, Oct. 25, 2024 The expectations have changed for the UNLV football team. The days of finding positives in a close defeat to compensate for the helpless feeling of coming up short are thankfully over ...
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SportsGame day: Raiders can't get anything going offensively, fall to Steelers
Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024 he Raiders made things easy on the visiting Pittsburgh Steelers this afternoon. Three Las Vegas turnovers gave the Steelers the ball deep in Raiders territory and led to 17 points ...
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SportsUNLV football rides strong start to big win at Utah State
Friday, Oct. 11, 2024 The UNLV football team scored 70 seconds into their game Friday night at Utah State, amassed 546 total yards, forced four turnovers and — at times — looked like the Mountain West’s best team in a 50-34 victory ...
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SportsUNLV receiver Ricky White honored by Mountain West for efforts on special teams
Monday, Oct. 7, 2024 Ricky White is one of the best wide receivers in UNLV football history. He’s also a notable special teams performer.
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Sports'Players are gutted': Loss to Syracuse painful for UNLV football
Friday, Oct. 4, 2024 This isn’t the obituary for the UNLV football season. The Rebels’ 44-41 loss in overtime Friday at home against Syracuse may ...
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EducationUNLV Student Spotlight of the Month: Canyon Springs High School's Jesus Hernandez Rios
Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024 Jesus Hernandez Rios admits he wasn’t much of a student during his initial years at Canyon Springs High School.
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FootballWhy UNLV should stay in the Mountain West for now
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024 Remember, the goal is to get invited to be part of a lucrative league like the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Big 12 or Southeastern Conference. It’s not to pay $17 million in exit fees that the university hasn’t budgeted for to leave ...
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UNLVFour schools — but not UNLV — leaving Mountain West Conference for Pac-12
Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024 UNLV isn’t one of the four Mountain West Conference schools reportedly leaving the league for the Pac-12 Conference. Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State and ...
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Breaking NewsFor the Cahill family, Henderson Bowl football game between Basic, Green Valley is ‘a special night’
Friday, Sept. 6, 2024 Players on the Basic High football team raced toward the end zone at Don Taylor Stadium to grab the Henderson Bowl trophy and begin celebrating. The Wolves ...
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Breaking NewsWhat to know before hiring a contractor in Las Vegas
Monday, Sept. 2, 2024 A page on the Nevada Contractor Board’s website lists unlicensed contractors who the board says are repeat offenders in scamming homeowners. A head shot is included. The board says these bad actors have left projects unfinished ...
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BusinessHistoric: After two decades, Culinary Union has its first contract with Venetian, Palazzo on Strip
Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024 The tentative five-year agreement, which still needs to be ratified by the 4,000 unionized hospitality workers at the two properties, ends more than two decades of union efforts being stonewalled ...
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SportsUNLV wide receiver White earns preseason honor from AP
Monday, Aug. 19, 2024 UNLV football wide receiver Ricky White III is one of the nation’s finest players at his position, according to the Associated Press. White was named a second-team preseason All-American ...
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SportsBishop Gorman football wins opener against Kahuku of Hawaii
Friday, Aug. 16, 2024 Bishop Gorman quarterback Melvin Spicer rolled out of the pocket midway through the first quarter, looked down field and let loose on a pass attempt.
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ConventionsLas Vegas Convention Center renovation hits milestone
Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024 The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s $600 million renovation of its legacy campus hit a milestone this morning when the final piece of structural steel was installed. A 50-foot beam signed by members of ...
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SportsLooking for a great night of community fun in Las Vegas? Try a prep football game
Monday, Aug. 12, 2024 My love affair with high school football started as a ninth-grader at Chaparral High School. Nick Garritano, the big man on campus who captained the team and was also a standout in baseball ...
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SportsPreseason top-10: Bishop Gorman still the team to beat in Las Vegas
Monday, Aug. 12, 2024 Another season of high school football is here. The narrative in Las Vegas, however, hasn’t changed: Can anyone beat Bishop Gorman? Gorman has won all but two state championships since 2007 in going from ...
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HendersonThe champs: Paseo Verde Little League punches ticket to Williamsport
Friday, Aug. 9, 2024 A baseball team from Henderson will be playing in the Little World Series for the second straight season. This time, it’s Paseo Verde Little League ...
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NewsOfficials: Death Valley establishes high temperature record in July
Friday, Aug. 2, 2024 Death Valley National Park in July experienced the hottest month on record with an average 24-hour temperature of 108.5 degrees, officials with the National Park Service said this morning. The previous high ...
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GamingLegislation to lift federal handle tax on sports wagers could pave way for better odds
Friday, Aug. 2, 2024 When information started to spread on social media about a proposal in the U.S. Senate to exempt sportsbooks in the United States from paying a handle tax, a question ...
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SportsNevada gold medalist Connor Fields talks about overcoming BMX crash, new role at Paris Olympics
Thursday, July 25, 2024 Connor Fields, a Henderson resident and Green Valley High School graduate, is a three-time Olympian who at the 2016 games in Brazil was the first American to win ...
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NewsGlobal outage grounds flights in Las Vegas, affects other businesses
Friday, July 19, 2024 Arriving and departing flights at Harry Reid International Airport have been affected by a global Microsoft outage that’s also disrupting banks and media outlets across ...
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SportsSeason projection: UNLV will go 6-6, and it shouldn’t be a disappointment
Friday, July 19, 2024 UNLV isn't lacking confidence in making another run, saying the goal is to win the conference and therefore become considered for selection in the new 12-team College Football Playoff. ...
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SportsSouthern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame to recognize Las Vegas coach’s tireless efforts with at-risk youths on, off the field
Friday, June 14, 2024 For Kevin Walker, the Green Machine’s founder and director, outfitting nearly 200 kids for a Saturday game meant plenty of sharing. The group only had a handful of football pads ...
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FeaturesGame of the Year: The Meadows vs. Boulder City volleyball
Thursday, May 23, 2024 When The Meadows girls’ volleyball team met Boulder City in the Class 3A state final, it felt like the showdown had been years in the making.
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FeaturesCoach of the Year: Nicole Murphy, Durango volleyball
Thursday, May 23, 2024 After going 2-5 at its fall classic in late September, the Trailblazers rattled off 13 straight wins.
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FeaturesUnsung Hero Award: Edgar Thomas, Clark County School District
Thursday, May 23, 2024 Edgar Thomas might be used to receiving odd looks when he responds to people asking him if he has any children. “You will always hear me say that I have 300,000 kids,” he says.
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FeaturesCitizen of the Year: Elaine Caballero, Chaparral
Thursday, May 23, 2024 “I took it upon myself to get involved because I wanted to help our community be a better place”
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FeaturesSun Standout Awards are bigger and better than ever in seventh year recognizing high school athletics
Thursday, May 23, 2024 A record 15 winners collected honors at the 2024 Sun Standout Awards May 20 at the South Point Showroom.
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FeaturesSun Standout Award of Excellence: Bishop Gorman football
Thursday, May 23, 2024 Out of 16,000 high school programs in America, the Gaels were voted as national champions by USA Today and MaxPreps.
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FeaturesFemale Athlete of the Year: Iyonna Codd, Centennial track
Thursday, May 23, 2024 Codd's won virtually every race she’s entered to emerge as one of the top track athletes in the country and rewrite both her school and state record books in the process.
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FeaturesHank Greenspun Lifetime Achievement Award: Marc Ratner
Thursday, May 23, 2024 Ratner is retiring this month as the commissioner of the Southern Nevada Officials Association, stepping away from a post he’s proudly served in since the early 1990s.
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FeaturesMale Athlete of the Year: Max Carlsen, Palo Verde swimming
Thursday, May 23, 2024 As one of the nation’s top distance swimmers, Max Carlsen knows a thing or two about determination and consistency.
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FeaturesBreakthrough Performance: Alissa Perkins, Desert Oasis softball, volleyball and basketball
Thursday, May 23, 2024 The 14-year-old has more than figured out how to contribute in sports despite having undergone amputation surgery at 9 months old after being born missing her left tibia.
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FeaturesRising Star Male: Jett Washington, Bishop Gorman basketball, football
Thursday, May 23, 2024 It was a productive year for the trophy case at Bishop Gorman, and Jett Washington played a big part in adding to the Gaels’ shiny display.
