After 43 years, motorcycle racing returned to the Mint 400 off-road race Saturday. Like the lyric from a Bruce Springsteen song, there seemed a bit of poetry in that.
Ron Kantowski
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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.
It’s a good thing Twitter wasn’t around during Clint Malarchuk’s day with the Las Vegas Thunder of the old International Hockey League. The “Cowboy Goalie” might have broken the internet.
On Sunday when NASCAR drivers with whom he regularly traded paint for 15 seasons will be starting engines in Phoenix, Casey Mears wil be eating dirt in the Mint 400.
New Lights FC coach Eric Wynalda says he has mellowed since the end of his soccer broadcast career. But he still can express a pointed opinion when the situation warrants.
After calling Las Vegas home for the past 10 years, NASCAR awards event is moving to Nashville, Tennessee.
Television ratings for Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway were up a tick over last year’s race.
Three takeaways from Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
A lot of guys would be thrilled after winning a NASCAR Truck Series race on Friday night, an Xfinity race on Saturday afternoon and finishing third in a Cup Series race Sunday after being penalized for speeding on pit road. Not Kyle Busch.
Joey Logano held off Roger Penske Racing teammate Brad Keselowski in the closing laps to win the NASCAR Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday in front of an estimated crowd of 55,000.
Kyle Busch rallied from an unscheduled pit stop for a loose wheel to win Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series Boyd Gaming 300 at breezy Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Most eyes at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will be focused on a new rules package designed to produce closer racing at the Pennzoil 400.
Kyle Busch won all three race stages en route to a dominating victory in the Strat 200 NASCAR Truck Series race Friday night at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, his hometown track.
Kevin Harvick posted a fast lap of 180.517 mph during Friday qualifying to earn the pole position for Sunday’s NASCAR Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Plummeting attendance and TV ratings raise questions about the LVCVA spending $17.5 million over seven years to sponsor two annual NASCAR races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
It already has been a season of milestones for Las Vegas NASCAR driver Kyle Busch, who made his 500th career Cup Series start on Sunday at Atlanta.
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