Covering high-school recruiting. On a Sunday afternoon. Please meet Ray Brewer.
January 11, 2010
I’m a huge fan of Las Vegas Sun preps writer Ray Brewer and I love the way Brewer leads our coverage of high school sports in this valley. Plus, his enthusiasm and drive are contagious.
Other than Brewer, what also makes the Sun’s high-school sports coverage so unique is that it is online-only. As I’ve written numerous times before, because of the JOA in Las Vegas, our print edition only has eight pages each day — with no daily sports or entertainment content, except on rare occasions.
Before the fall sports season began, I posted a blog about our …
Real-time news in Las Vegas: The Federal Courthouse shooting
January 8, 2010
Sorry about the lack of posts lately.
Any way you slice it, there have been lots of things going on … with our company, with the holidays, and lots of huge events and big breaking news here in Las Vegas. I’m eventually going to try to write about all of those things.
But for today, I want to quickly focus on how our week began at the Las Vegas Sun.
On Monday morning, a gunman opened fire at the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse. I found out about this story as I was getting ready to head in …