Have you seen the Las Vegas influence on the latest Nike “Just Do It” TV ads celebrating the U.S. winning the basketball gold medal in China? Anything look familiar? That’s right, all of the footage was filmed in practice in Las Vegas, at Cox Pavilion during a weekend reunion of the team ...
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In the current edition of ESPN The Magazine, Rick Reilly writes that Mitch Jones of the Las Vegas 51s should sue Major League Baseball, because when he was young and on the way up, a lot of big leaguers were taking steroids — and he wasn’t. “I got screwed,” Jones says. ...
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Bishop Gorman’s baseball team was ranked in the Top 10 of several national polls this past spring as it captured a third straight high school state title.
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The American Legion World Series championship game pitting Bishop Gorman — aka the Southern Nevada Titans — and a team from Pasco, Wash., has been postponed by rain until Wednesday morning at 9 a.m. EDT. Bishop Gorman is the only undefeated team in the winner’s bracket, meaning it must beat Pasco ...
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Chris and Peter Ferraro expect to return to the Las Vegas Wranglers for a second season in 2008-09. The team announced Tuesday morning that, with the signing of center Matt Beaudoin, the roster for the upcoming season had been boosted to six. The Ferraros weren’t in that group. However, Chris Ferraro said ...
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Bishop Gorman’s American Legion baseball team advanced to Tuesday’s World Series championship game with an 11-9 come-from-behind win over Sumter (S.C.) in the double-elimination event held in Shelby, N.C. on Sunday.
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Spain proved pesky, but at the end of a physical, hotly contested game Sunday the U.S. won the gold medal at the Olympics with a 118-107 victory at Wukesong Indoor Stadium. “I’m just so excited,” Kobe Bryant, who had 20 points and 6 assists, told NBC. “We’ve been wanting this for ...
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Bishop Gorman’s American Legion baseball team blew a six-run lead Saturday in its second World Series game, but Jeff Malm hit an eventual game-winning home run in the sixth inning and pitched two scoreless innings to close the game in a 10-8 victory against Pasco, Wash.
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Jeff Malm, Erik Van Meetren and Johnny Field combined for six hits and five RBI to spark the Bishop Gorman American Legion team to a 7-5 victory over Omaha, Neb., in the first game of the American Legion World Series today.
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Team USA used a big first quarter and coasted to a 101-81 victory over Argentina in an Olympic semifinal Friday at Wukesong Indoor Stadium. Spain defeated Lithuania, 91-86, in an earlier semifinal to advance to the gold-medal game against the Americans. In the preliminary round of Group B, the U.S. beat ...
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