The Vegas Golden Knights went to the Stanley Cup finals in 2018 in their first year of existence, and were it not for an all-timer save by Braden Holtby on Alex Tuch in the waning moments of Game 2, the Knights could have paraded the Cup down Las Vegas Boulevard in their first year of existence. After signing Paul Stastny
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It was just over a year ago, a January day in 2018 that the Pirates traded Andrew McCutchen to the San Francisco Giants, that I swore I was done being a Pirates fan. I ranted, raved and vented, and said I’d become a fan of a new team. Eventually, I said I was going to become a fan of the
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Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Nate Schmidt has been a catalyst to the team’s turnaround after a slow start, and has become one of the NHL’s elite players. Nate Schmidt’s name was the last one announced during the NHL Expansion draft in 2017, and it caused next-to-no reaction among the faithful at T-Mobile Arena. The Golden Knights fans who showed up
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I was on my next-to-last hole of a painfully slow round of golf on Sunday, waiting to hit my tee shot, when the twosome playing behind me finished and got to the tee, as well. I invited them to join me for the last two holes, which they did. It was, of course, a mistake, or I wouldn’t be writing
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Somehow, it seems kind of appropriate that I learned of my friend Royce Feour’s death on Boxing Day. As a journalist who covered boxing for nearly 40 years in Nevada, Feour became synonymous with the sport in his beloved home state. In the cutthroat world that is professional boxing, everybody has an enemy or someone who is out to get
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I love technology, but I love it most when it solves problems for me. And so, somewhat sheepishly, I have to admit that I love Sam’s Club’s “Scan & Go” app that I have on my iPhone. It is simply a great use of technology, but the primary benefit is that you can bypass the checkout lines when you’re done
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There are people like Lee Samuels in most companies. They’re the ones who keep the trains on time, so to speak, and who play an oversized albeit frequently unnoticed role in their company’s success. Sadly, their contributions to the overall success aren’t recognized or celebrated publicly. They’re like the gears inside of a watch; without them, the hands won’t move
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I got my first computer in the mid-1980s. My first cell phone arrived in the early 1990s, perhaps 1991, and was larger and heavier than my size 13 EEE dress shoes. I once subscribed to the Prodigy internet service and would marvel in wonder as the green letters slowly — and I mean S-L-O-W-L-Y — filled the screen to deliver
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In 1990, an all-sports newspaper called “The National” made its debut, and it featured some of the greatest sports writers of the day. It was a great idea at the wrong time and it last 18 months despite an excellent product. One of its problems was distribution and in Las Vegas, it was very hard to find. I’d drive for
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On Friday, FBI agents arrested a man who had mailed bombs to many prominent Democratic leaders, including former President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. On Saturday, 11 more people senselessly died when they were shot while at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. The violence is an outgrowth of the hate and polarization which is taking over our country.
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