The shutdown of sporting events due to the coronavirus pandemic has put athletic careers on hold and interrupted the flow of money that makes sports such a big business.
Staffers at the sports and culture website began to leave en masse earlier this week following a directive from executives to "stick to sports." The future of the site is up in the air.
Quidditch leapt from the screen to real-life muggle fields in 2005. Now, it's grown big enough to have a major league, and the intensity and athleticism involved is anything but fictional.
It's an aggressive game that requires full body contact like hip and shoulder checks. It's empowering. And that's exactly why these young Egyptian women love it.
The BBC and BuzzFeed published an expose about match-fixing in tennis but did not name names of implicated players. Some people, including Roger Federer, have called for the release of names.
Christiana-Marie Wilburn is your typical teen: she likes to travel, and sometimes dyes her hair with green streaks. But she also likes to carry around a bow and arrow.
The biggest international sporting event of the year is being held in Las Vegas this weekend. It's the 2010 USA Rugby Sevens Tournament at Sam Boyd Stadium.
UNLV has just hired Jim Livengood to try and revamp the Athletic Department.
He talks about his plans for UNLV's teams and what it will take to get a
winning season in football and even make it to the Final Four.
Author James McManus came to Las Vegas a few years ago to cover the World Series of Poker but got a real close-up view because he made the final table. He's back with a new book on poker and the meaning of American life.
In 2004, he was the champion and by 2005 he was the bad boy of NASCAR. We
talk with NASCAR driver and one-time Las Vegan Kurt Busch about how he's
changed and how NASCAR is dealing with diminished sponsorships.
Did they lose on Manny Pacquiao? Did they win on the Yankees? And how will
they handle March Madness. Jay Rood from MGM Grand and Art Manteris from
Station Casinos join us to talk about how the big moments in recent months
have played out in the sportsbooks.
The tennis legend has co-authored his autobiography. In it, he speaks of
drug use, the roller-coaster his career and personal life became in the
1990s and his eventual decision to retire in 2006.
This weekend brings another big fight to the MGM Grand. Unlike many big
fights that underwhelm the fans, Manny Pacquiao seems to have a huge crowd
of followers.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has been called barbaric and brutal but
few have dare called it gay. Thaddeus Russell does just that and we talk to
him about the big new sport of mixed martial arts and why he thinks it's
well.
The Las Vegas Locomotives play their second and last game at home in Las
Vegas tonight. We talk with United Football League Commissioner Michael
Huyge about the plans for the league and whether it can survive as a
second-tier league when it only has four teams.
It's not exactly one of the big four sports leagues but a new start-up
football league, the UFL, has placed one of its four franchises in Southern Nevada. The Las Vegas Locomotives will be dressed in aquamarine, but former Giants Super Bowl coach Jim Fassel will be coaching the new team when the
season begins October 8th.
Alan Jay Zaremba, author
... on his book that gives readers a front-row view of the betting culture that surrounds the frenzied first weekend of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
