Weekly summer thoughts …
Ed Graney
Ed Graney is a sports columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covering a variety of topics and the Las Vegas sports scene.
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Tim Chambers will be the one to manage the madness. To guide the publicity-loaded vessel through choppy waters of scrutiny. To bring some calm into the storm of hype.
The United Football League will announce logos and colors and nicknames and sponsorship deals for its four franchises in the coming weeks, another step in the process of selling the new venture to whatever fan base is created by more football in the fall.
What nobody wants to hear: The problem isn’t Scott Boras. The problem is baseball, at seemingly every turn, can’t wield a strong enough hammer.
Weekly summer thoughts …
Recognizing that I volunteered as a Ranger, fully knowing the hazards of my chosen profession, I will always endeavor to uphold the prestige, honor and high esprit de corps of the Rangers.
The point guard in Robert Smith could handle tonight without dropping a tear or bead of sweat. Calm. Cool. A massive grip around his emotions.
The United Way is following me, even though I gave at the office. So is UNLV Athletics, but that’s probably just the athletic director’s way of being funny.
This is where the dream begins, far from sold-out arenas and pay-per-view dollars and famous fighters who delivered mixed martial arts into the mainstream for good.
Bryan Savelio played football at the University of Florida. He remembers those road trips to other Southeastern Conference schools, remembers the bus rides from the team hotel to the stadiums of Tennessee and Louisiana State and Mississippi, remembers the opposing fans.
Vince Lombardi: “If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, why do they keep score?”
John Lindsey makes you a baseball fan again. He takes any indifferent emotions that might’ve developed over the years and returns them to those of a rooting interest.
Think of this as your child’s first impression of kindergarten: You get the little one dressed all nice and sweet for the big transition from home to more formal schooling. Spider-Man backpack. SpongeBob lunch box. The works.
A former colleague had this adage by which he would define our profession.
Matt Snodgrass is most alive on a golf course, after seven brain tumors and all the radiation and chemotherapy that goes with them. He turns 21 on May 29, when for a second year he will host a golf tournament to benefit his condition and other young people fighting cancer.
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