When the weather changed a few weeks back, I started thinking about the end of summer. I ended with some meditations on what makes Las Vegas different and how it is no longer quite as special: Until now, Las Vegas has been many things, but a big league town was not one of them. As […]
A Small Town Cools Down, A Big League City Heats Up – Vegas Seven Read More »
Vegas SevenI got the opportunity to write a piece about how the NHL’s announcement it is coming to Las Vegas fits in with the history of gambling for the Washington Post. Here is a small sample: In that atmosphere, professional sports — whose legitimacy has at times been tainted by gambling-related scandals from the infamous 1919
It’s a busy day for me, because this morning I was live on KNPR’s State of Nevada. You can click that link for a link directly to the show, and I think you can even listen. I’m part of the panel in the first segment. It was a lively talk about pro sports potentially coming
Down in the depths on the 80th floor Read More »
atlantic city, life in vegas, what's new“I think this country is rapidly embracing various forms of gambling. It’s not the NCAA’s business to be cultural critics or a cultural task force. Our job is to make sure it doesn’t influence college athletics.” –NCAA President Myles Brand, explaining why he continues to fight legal sports betting in Nevada, but has no problem