Revered soccer icon Pele of Brazil, now in failing health, was honored with slot machines bearing his likeness at a Convention Center gaming expo.
Ron Kantowski
Sports columnist
Email: rkantowski@reviewjournal.com
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Ron Kantowski is a sports columnist and covers auto racing for the Review-Journal. He has won multiple writing awards and in 2016 was named Nevada Sportswriter of the Year. Prior to beginning a long career in Las Vegas sports journalism, Kantowski attended Western New Mexico University in Silver City, N.M., where he played for the baseball team. He is a native of Whiting, Ind.
Italy’s Marco Materazzi scored a goal and converted a penalty kick in the 2006 World Cup final against France, but rarely gets asked about it.
The National Finals Rodeo attracted 173,350 spectators over the past 10 days, up from 169,539 in 2021, and extended its performance sellout streak to 350.
Zeke Thurston outlasted three challengers to earn the saddle bronc championship as the National Finals Rodeo concluded Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Superstar Stetson Wright clinched his fourth consecutive all-around cowboy title Tuesday, but money and championships are still to be won on the final night of the National Finals Rodeo.
A year after being selected to sing the national anthem at the National Finals Rodeo, Ohio farm girl Candace Muir saluted America and her own perseverance.
The NFR daysheet has provided the only update on the condition of bull rider Reid Oftedahl since a brief statement was issued Saturday. OUT it says next to Oftedahl’s name.
Go-round winners Zeke Thurston and Logan Hay lead a six-man contingent from Canada in saddle bronc riding at the National Finals Rodeo at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The MGM Grand Garden will host an exhibition pitting all-time great Rafael Nadal against Spanish countryman and world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz in March.
There are bigger battles being fought than those in the arena, says world champion cowboy Stetson Wright.
Kansas bareback rider Jess Pope is seeking his third consecutive average title and first world championship at the National Finals Rodeo at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Two-time world steer wrestling champion Hunter Cure has bounced back from a concussion and retirement talk to join the championship chase at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Rodeo great Ty Murray and former UNLV basketball player Larry Johnson were once friends in junior college. Now they’re both in the rafters at the Thomas & Mack Center.
NFR veteran Kaycee Feild has struck early in pursuit of his unprecedented seventh bareback riding world championship, as he tries to hold off the whippersnappers.
Tie-down roping champion Shane Hanchey and wife Taylor are one of the few married couples who have competed at the National Finals Rodeo.
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