“We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.”
Sports Columns
Anglers who enjoy fishing the upper reaches of Lake Mohave will be happy to learn the Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery will resume its rainbow trout-stocking program on Jan. 16. The first plant will be made at Willow Beach, with second and third plants scheduled for Davis Camp and Riverside below Davis Dam. Those plants will occur the following week.
T en years later, the Mountain West Conference welcomed 2009 by having the most significant week in its history, or at least since anybody 10 miles beyond the Wasatch Mountains didn’t need rabbit ears to watch The Mtn.
You place an X on the positive side of the ledger and move on. Watch the tape, break down all the mistakes, try to learn from them, take another deep breath and begin preparing for the next game. There’s not much else to do after such an escape.
They have won and looked disjointed. They have won and looked terrific. They have won on the road. They have won without their leading scorer against a Top 25 team on national television.
Despite a tumultuous final week of 2008, Garrett Gomez showed above all that he is a good sport.
Predicting what each month in 2009 will bring our local sports scene:
As the new year dawns, America’s sportsmen and the wildlife resources we treasure face an uncertain future.
The C word (character) often is difficult to notice in professional sports, perhaps because we are so conditioned to accept the S word (selfish) when describing athletes. Things such as heart and effort and accountability aren’t how we usually first depict those with tens of millions attached to their bank accounts for playing a game.
Horseplayers from coast to coast will be raring to go today after racing was completely dark the past two days because of the holiday.
Happy holidays to all. May the season be joyous for you and your family. And if you are one of the many who went fishing or waterfowl hunting this morning, I hope the dog house is dry and warm. You might need it.
You will hear more about the 3-pointers today, about Wink Adams busting his slump against Arizona’s basketball team, about the lead growing to as many as 22 points in the second half, about the Rebels earning what NCAA Tournament selection committee members would consider a quality win come March.
Richard Shapiro’s resignation this week as chairman of the California Horse Racing Board caught everyone by surprise. He had just been appointed to a second four-year term by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Mike Stoops arrived in town with his Arizona football team Tuesday evening, put the Wildcats through a snow-flurried practice the following morning, stepped inside the Lied Athletic Complex at UNLV and answered questions about his program’s first bowl game in a decade.
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