As two of baseball’s brightest stars, Bryce Harper and Kris Bryant, lead a pack of Vegas-bred major-leaguers, a consideration of Sin City as a baseball town.
Far from the UFC limelight, hundreds of amateur mixed martial artists fight to go pro — or just straighten out their lives. Las Vegas has become their mecca.
Encounters with the greatest sportswriter you’ve never heard
Lunch One
Jerry Izenberg, the greatest sportswriter you’ve never heard of, walks into the Grand Cafe at Sunset Station like a cruiserweight entering a ring. He’s loose, confident, on the balls of his feet.
It’s a gray, windy day as play starts on the Cimarron-Memorial High School football field. But the chill doesn’t slow the Spartans who, with a few quick plays, score on their opening drive against Mojave High School.
Las Vegas soccer is divided into two worlds: the ligas americanas and ligas mexicanas. Can they learn to speak the same language - and create another soccer star? We had crossed a border in the Las Vegas Valley, less than 10 miles from our house.
