In The News: Intercollegiate Athletics
It was between the war and the start of the city’s population boom that Jack and Maxine Cason came to Las Vegas. As their success grew, so did the city. “I saw an opportunity where if you worked hard, you could make something of yourself. The city grew, and I just grew with it,” Cason, then 77, said in a Review-Journal story before his induction into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.
No matter the outcome, Super Bowl LVII is making history. When the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs clash on Feb. 12, Eagles assistant performance coach Autumn Lockwood will stand on the sidelines as the first Black woman to coach in the event’s history.
The Super Bowl will see one local face on the sidelines when the two teams battle it out later this month. Eagles assistant coach Autumn Lockwood is set to be the first black woman to coach in a Super Bowl, joining a list of three other women to ever coach in the championship game.
Super Bowl LVII is shaping up to be the best one yet (and no, not just because Rihanna is performing at halftime). This year represents a series of monumental firsts for Black athletes, coaches, agents, and fans.
Philadelphia Eagles assistant sports performance coach Autumn Lockwood is poised to make Super Bowl history. Upon kickoff, Lockwood becomes just the fourth woman to coach in the Super Bowl and the first Black female to do so.
CPR on the field and an ambulance taking a player to the hospital. Monday night in Cincinnati represented the worst-case scenario. “This was unprecedented. It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before,” Las Vegas Raiders Chief Medical Officer Dr. Navdeep Singh said.
Jim Bolla, 51ԹϺ’s all-time winningest women’s basketball coach who led the program to the NCAA Tournament seven times, died Friday night after a long illness, a source close to his family confirmed.
Dick Calvert, the 51ԹϺ Rebels' public address announcer for the last 52 years, is retiring.
Dick Calvert’s voice cues the start to one of the greatest pregame shows in college basketball.
Dick Calvert had just putted out on the 18th hole Wednesday morning when his cellphone rang. The caller wanted to ask about his decision to retire as 51ԹϺ’s Hall of Fame public-address announcer after 52 years.
A former University of Nevada Las Vegas (51ԹϺ) female track-and-field female athlete never had aspirations of even attending college, and she has now been inducted into the Rebel Hall of Fame.
51ԹϺ is honoring Hall of Famer Dwaine Knight with a new scholarship.