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"Down In My Heart," sometimes titled "I've Got the Joy" is a popular Christian song often sung around the campfire and during scouting events. It is often included in Gospel music and a cappella concerts and songbooks. The song was written by George Willis Cooke (23 April 1848 - 30 April 1923). The date of authorship is as yet unknown.[original research?] Cooke was born in Comstock, Michigan. He was a Unitarian minister, writer, and editor and is well known for his landmark history of the Unitarian movement in the 19th century. Though largely self-taught, he studied at Meadeville Theological School in 1872. He was ordained in June of that year, not having obtained a degree from the school. He served the parish ministry for 28 years, while writing and editing. He left the ministry in 1900 to pursue scholarship and lecturing. He authored more than 20 books on a wide range of subjects.
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1 Lyrics
2 In popular culture
3 References
4 External links
Lyrics[edit]
There are many possible lyrics. The most common opening lyric and chorus is as follows:
I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy
Down in my heart (Where?)
Down in my heart (Where?)
Down in my heart
I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy
Down in my heart
Down in my heart to stay
And I'm so happy
So very happy
I have the love of Jesus in my heart (down in my heart)
And I'm so happy
So very happy
I have the love of Jesus in my heart
Subsequent lyrics include:
I've got the peace that passes understanding down in my heart...
I've got the far out faith that freaks out the farmers down in my heart...
I've got the glorious hope of my blessed redeemer way down in the depths of my heart...
I've got the mighty Messiah that manifests miracles down in the depths of my heart...
I've got the beautiful blessing that baffles the Buddhists down in the depths of my heart...
I've got the Christian confession that confuses the Communists down in the depths of my heart...
I've got the far out feeling that freaks out the Pharisees down in the depths of my heart...
I've got the love of Jesus Christ my savior down in my heart...
I've got the wonderful love of my blessed redeemer way down in the depths of my heart...
And if the devil doesn't like it he can sit on a tack, ouch, sit on a tack, ouch, sit on a tack. And if the devil doesn't like it he can sit on a tack. Sit on a tack to stay.
I've got the brightest light in the depths of my heart...
I've got the infinite love of the living lord down in the depths of my heart...
I've got the love of Jesus, love of Jesus down in my heart...
I've got that opposition to conscription down in my heart...[1]
In popular culture[edit]
Origin of the title of William Stafford's prose memoir of his WWII pacifist service, Down In My Heart.[2]
NRBQ's version of the song is played in the final moments of FX's American television series "Wilfred". Though the context it's played in is not conducive to the songs original theme of Christianity, instead referring to the main characters coming to peace with his state of mind, it is possibly for this reason that only the chorus of the song is played.
This is the gospel song Granny (actress Irene Ryan) sings in an episode of the 1960s TV sitcom, "The Beverly Hillbillies"
Sung by The Simpsons characters Rod and Todd in episode 410 (Lisa's First Word) originally aired 3 December 1993.
Included by The Housemartins as one of the tracks on the London 0 Hull 4 Deluxe Edition album, from when lead singer Paul Heaton's lyrics reflected his Christian views at the time.
The song is sung by Jeremy Sumpter and Matt O'Leary at the beginning of the 2001 thriller Frailty.
Used in Coca-Cola ad April, 2015.
In the 2014 Game LISA, the song is repeatedly sung by the character Buzzo when offering the in-game drug, Joy.
In 2015, S7E7 of Tosh.0 featured Daniel Tosh referencing and singing it.
In 2016, VolksWagen used the song in a TV commercial aired during the UEFA Euro 2016.
In 2017, it is sung in the first episode of Sun Records.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ p. 47, Kim Stafford, Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford, Publisher Trinity University Press, 2014 ISBN 1595341862, 9781595341860
Jump up ^ Kim Stafford, Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford, Publisher Trinity University Press, 2014 ISBN 9781595341860
External links[edit]
I've Got the Joy lyrics (with guitar chords)
I've Got the Joy Joy Joy is often sung quickly resulting in Misheard Lyrics
The song, as sung by "Noelle & John" is available for free download in MP3 format
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Sports in the Las Vegas metropolitan area
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See also: Nevada § Sports, Las Vegas § Sports, and Reno § Sports
The Las Vegas metropolitan area is home to many sports, most of which take place in the unincorporated communities around Las Vegas rather than in the city itself. The Las Vegas Valley has two major league professional teams: the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL) who began play in 2017 as the region's first major pro team[1] and the Las Vegas Aces of the WNBA. The Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) will begin play in Las Vegas as the Las Vegas Raiders by 2020 and become the region's third major professional team.[2] Las Vegas is also home to two minor league sports teams: the Las Vegas 51s of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League (Minor League Baseball) and the Las Vegas Lights FC of the United Soccer League, one of two leagues that collectively make up the second level of the U.S. men's soccer league system. Both teams are currently the only teams to actually play in the city of Las Vegas, playing at the city owned Cashman Field.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), located just off the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, fields National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I athletic teams. Sam Boyd Stadium, located in Whitney, hosts UNLV football; the Las Vegas Bowl, an annual NCAA bowl game; and the USA Sevens, the largest rugby tournament in North America.[3] The Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS) just north of the city hosts NASCAR's Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and other automotive events. The National Finals Rodeo is held annually at the Thomas & Mack Center on the UNLV campus, and the Professional Bull Riders holds its annual World Finals at T-Mobile Arena on the Strip.
Visitors and residents also have many options for boating, golf, hiking, rock climbing. The city has many parks which offer a wide range of activities.
Contents
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1 List of teams
1.1 Major professional teams
1.2 Minor professional teams
1.3 College teams
2 History
2.1 Past issues with major league sports
3 Major league professional teams
3.1 National Hockey League
3.2 National Football League
3.3 Women's National Basketball Association
4 Proposed major league teams
4.1 Major League Baseball
4.2 National Basketball Association
4.3 Major League Soccer
5 Minor league professional teams
5.1 Baseball
5.2 Soccer
5.3 Minor League sports issues
6 Former professional teams
7 College sports
8 Rugby union and variations
9 Special sports events
10 Individual sports
10.1 Boxing
10.2 Golf
10.3 Mixed martial arts
10.4 Motorsports
10.5 Professional wrestling
10.6 Rodeo
10.7 Running and triathlon
11 Other events
12 Sports venues
12.1 Arenas
12.2 Golf courses
12.3 Motor sports
12.4 Sports fields
13 See also
14 References
List of teams[edit]
Major professional teams[edit]
Team
Sport
League
Venue (capacity)
Established
Titles
Las Vegas Raiders
Football NFL Las Vegas Stadium (65,000) 2020 (planned) 0
Vegas Golden Knights
Ice hockey NHL T-Mobile Arena (17,500) 2017 0
Las Vegas Aces
Basketball WNBA Mandalay Bay Events Center (12,000) 2018 0
Minor professional teams[edit]
Team
Sport
League
Venue (capacity)
Established
Titles
Las Vegas 51s
Baseball MiLB (AAA-PCL) Cashman Field (9,334) 1983 2
Las Vegas Lights FC
Soccer USL Cashman Field (9,334) 2018 0
College teams[edit]
School
Team
League
Division
Primary Conference
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
UNLV Rebels
NCAA Division I Mountain West
College of Southern Nevada (CSN)
CSN Coyotes
NJCAA Division I Scenic West
History[edit]
Las Vegas was one of the largest cities in the United States without a major league sports team prior to the entry of the Golden Knights into the NHL. Due in part to perceived risks with legal sports betting, no major professional sports league had ever had a team in Las Vegas until the NHL decision to expand there came in June 2016, though the NBA's Utah Jazz played 11 home games at the Thomas & Mack Center in the 1983–84 season.[4] The placement of a major league team in Las Vegas was an ongoing topic of discussion between city leaders and the professional sports leagues.
Past issues with major league sports[edit]
Professional sports leagues historically avoided Las Vegas due to legal sports betting.
Historically, the most prominent issue was the perceived problem of legal sports betting. Traditionally, all four major professional sports leagues had strong anti-gambling policies, prohibiting their personnel from having any involvement in gambling. The NFL took the toughest stance, even refusing to accept Las Vegas tourism advertising for Super Bowl telecasts[5] and threatening to file suit against any local hotels holding Super Bowl parties.[6] Hotels got around the legal threat by referring to the Super Bowl as "The Big Game" rather than its actual name in advertising.[6] In addition, some potential owners believed a professional sports franchise would have difficulty gaining an audience, given Las Vegas's numerous entertainment options. A number of prior professional football teams in the city ranked at or near last in their leagues in attendance over the years, such as the Las Vegas Posse, Las Vegas Locomotives and arena football Las Vegas Outlaws. Las Vegas also has a high percentage of residents working in 24-hour occupations, many of whom work nights and weekends when most games would be played. Several owners of other sports franchises disagreed. Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria described Las Vegas as "a potential gold mine" for a professional sports team owner. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was also quoted as saying that Las Vegas would be a good professional sports town.
As the four leagues embraced daily fantasy sports (DFS) and mobile sports betting became more prevalent the perceptions that the four major professional sports leagues had of Las Vegas changed and the doors opened to major pro sports in the market. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said he was in favor of regulated, legalized sports gambling and later the NHL became the first of the four professional sports leagues to land in Vegas, with the expansion team Vegas Golden Knights debuting in October 2017. The NFL, once a staunch opponent of Las Vegas, became the second of the four leagues to come to Vegas with the relocation of the Oakland Raiders to the area by 2020.
Prior to the opening of T-Mobile Arena in April 2016, another major obstacle was the lack of suitable facilities. The city did not have a facility that was large enough or modern enough to host an MLB or NFL team. While the Thomas & Mack Center and MGM Grand Garden Arena were large enough on paper to host an NBA or NHL team, they were not suitable for anything beyond temporary use due to age and/or design issues.
Harrah's Entertainment and the Anschutz Entertainment Group committed to building a new arena on a parcel of land behind Harrah's Paris and Bally's off the Strip, to be built to NHL and NBA standards. The arena was expected to open in the fall of 2010, but construction never began. Harrah's Entertainment CEO Gary Loveman said in a June, 2009 article in Las Vegas Business Press that his company was still committed to building the arena, but it was delayed by a lack of financing. On April 6, 2010 the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that three proposals had been made to build an arena of approximately 20,000 seats on or near the Strip to host professional basketball and hockey, rodeo, concerts and other events. All three proposals called for public money to be used for a portion of the construction cost.[7] On November 5, 2013, Las Vegas news media reported plans for a joint-venture arena to be built on the Strip with the backing parties being AEG and MGM Resorts. Located at a former parking lot at the back of the Monte Carlo, T-Mobile Arena seats 20,000 and costs $350 million. Ground was broken on May 2014, with its opening on April 6, 2016.[8][9]
Cashman Field is planned to be replaced for baseball by Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin by 2019. Sam Boyd Stadium is scheduled to be replaced with Las Vegas Stadium which will be the home of the Las Vegas Raiders and UNLV Football beginning in 2020. Ground was broken for Las Vegas Stadium on November 13, 2017.[10]
Major league professional teams[edit]
National Hockey League[edit]
T-Mobile Arena, home of the Vegas Golden Knights
Las Vegas is the home to the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Golden Knights are owned by Black Knight Sports & Entertainment, a consortium led by Bill Foley,[1] and play at T-Mobile Arena. The Golden Knights began play during the 2017–18 NHL season and became the first major league professional team in Las Vegas.
Prior to the Golden Knights, the National Hockey League had experience with Las Vegas beginning in 1991, when an outdoor game was held in Las Vegas, with the Los Angeles Kings facing the New York Rangers outside Caesars Palace in a preseason exhibition game. It carried thorough the years with an annual preseason exhibition game called Frozen Fury which was held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.[11] The league has also held the NHL Awards ceremonies after each season since 2009.[12]
National Football League[edit]
See also: Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas
Aerial view of the site of Las Vegas Stadium (center left), the future home of the Las Vegas Raiders and UNLV Rebels. It is expected to be completed for the 2020 NFL season.
Las Vegas will be home to the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) possibly beginning as soon as after the 2018 NFL season. On March 27, 2017, NFL owners voted 31–1 to approve the Oakland Raiders' move to Las Vegas, who will continue to play at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland in 2017 and possibly longer,[13] until their new stadium, the Las Vegas Stadium, is built in time for the 2020 NFL season.
Prior to the Raiders approved relocation to Las Vegas, professional outdoor football had been attempted three times in the area. The first two attempts, the XFL's Las Vegas Outlaws and the Canadian Football League's Las Vegas Posse, were unsuccessful, with both teams folding after only one season of play. The XFL folded outright, while the Posse were a failure at the box office, part of the CFL's failed U.S. expansion attempt. A third attempt at professional football was begun in the fall of 2009 with the United Football League's Las Vegas Locomotives; however, the franchise and the league folded in 2012. The Locomotives played in the league's first three championship games, winning the first two in 2009 and 2010.
Women's National Basketball Association[edit]
In October 2017, multiple national media outlets reported that Spurs Sports & Entertainment, owner of the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and its Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) sister team, the San Antonio Stars, had reached an agreement to sell the Stars to a Las Vegas-based group that would move the team to the area effective with the 2018 season. The NBA and WNBA officially approved the sale on October 17, 2017 and announced the Las Vegas Aces will be playing at the Mandalay Bay Events Center starting in the 2018 season.[14]
Proposed major league teams[edit]
Major League Baseball[edit]
In April 2004, Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Bud Selig publicly revealed that baseball was considering Las Vegas as a potential home for the Montreal Expos. The lack of a baseball park that could be quickly reconfigured for Major League Baseball cost the city any chance of landing the team. Baseball eventually chose Washington, D.C., primarily because the city agreed to provide a new stadium built entirely with public funding.[15]
A news item on a local television station dated August 26, 2010 reported that then Mayor Oscar Goodman was still actively pursuing a Major League Baseball franchise for the city. He was reportedly rebuffed by the owner of an unnamed team due to the small size of the market and the weak local economy.[16]
National Basketball Association[edit]
Rumors surfaced in 2005 about the possible relocation of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Sacramento Kings to Las Vegas. In November 2006, California voters rejected a proposal to fund a new arena in Sacramento, considered to be a condition of the team remaining there. Another possible factor was that the owners of the Kings, the Maloof family, also owned the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Changes in the Kings owners' financial situation led to a decision to sell the club to a group planning to keep the team in Sacramento, which finalized the purchase of the Kings in May 2013.[17][18]
The Milwaukee Bucks had also been mentioned as possible candidates for relocation to Las Vegas, as were the Seattle SuperSonics before their relocation to Oklahoma City.[19][20]
Former UNLV and NBA player Jackie Robinson was working to build the All Net Resort and Arena, a $1.4 billion privately funded complex encompassing an arena, hotel and shopping project near the SLS Las Vegas and Turnberry Towers that could attract an NBA franchise to Las Vegas. The arena itself would cost $670 million, being operated by Comcast-Spectacor (owners of another NBA stadium, Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center).[21] Designed by the Cuningham Group, the arena was planned to open in 2017.[22] The All Net Arena saw its groundbreaking ceremony on October 29, 2014,[23] and Robinson entered into negotiations with Clark County expecting to begin construction by Fall 2015.[24] However, the plan was placed on hold in 2016, presumably due to the progress made on T-Mobile Arena.
Las Vegas hosted the 2007 NBA All-Star Game, the only time the event has been held in a non-NBA city.[25] As part of the conditions the NBA set for holding the game in Las Vegas, sports books agreed not to take bets on the game. The NBA Summer League is currently held in Paradise, Nevada. The 2008 and 2012 United States men's Olympic basketball teams trained in Las Vegas, and played a game at the Thomas & Mack Center against the Dominican Republic.
In October 2016, during an interview with KNPR’s State of Nevada, MGM Resorts International CEO Jim Murren said he's working on bringing an NBA team to Las Vegas, to play at the T-Mobile Arena. "It wouldn’t be an expansion team,” Murren said. “It would most likely be the relocation of an existing team.”[26]
Major League Soccer[edit]
The local media reported in the summer of 2008 that Las Vegas was on the short list of cities Major League Soccer (MLS) was considering for an expansion franchise in the near future. After a controversial campaign by Mayor Carolyn Goodman and Cordish Company to use public dollars for a new taxpayer-funded stadium, the proposal faced public backlash before MLS ultimately decided to pass on Las Vegas in February 2015.[27][28]
Minor league professional teams[edit]
Baseball[edit]
Las Vegas 51s baseball game at Cashman Field
Las Vegas is home to the Las Vegas 51s of the Pacific Coast League (AAA) who play at Cashman Field. The 51's are currently the AAA affiliate of the New York Mets and the only professional team that plays in the City of Las Vegas. On October 11, 2017, the Las Vegas 51s got approval to build Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin, Nevada. However, the Mets also announced the end of their affiliation with the Las Vegas 51s effective after the 2018 season.
Soccer[edit]
Beginning in 2018, Las Vegas became home to a USL soccer team known as the Las Vegas Lights FC. The team shares Cashman Field with the baseball 51s and is the second team to play within the Las Vegas city limits.
Minor League sports issues[edit]
Since Cashman Field (the only sports facility the city owns) opened in 1983, all but three other cities in AAA baseball (Pawtucket, Tacoma and Portland) have opened new ballparks.[29] Little has been done to improve Cashman since it opened.
After the toilets backed up during a 2015 game, PCL president Branch Barrett Rickey wrote a letter to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority to warn that the upgrades needed to keep Cashman at something approaching Triple-A standards would require spending "tens of millions of dollars." Rickey added that even that wouldn't be enough, as many experts inside and outside Las Vegas believed that Cashman was at the end of its useful life.[30]
Because it lags so far behind most other facilities in AAA baseball there was danger that Las Vegas would lose its place in minor league baseball's top tier (which happened to Portland after the 2010 season, after plans for a new park fell through). Dissatisfaction with the facilities, along with the lack of a plan to improve the situation, was cited as a major reason the Los Angeles Dodgers did not renew their working agreement with the Las Vegas 51s after it expired in 2008. The Dodgers resumed what had been a long-term affiliation with Albuquerque, where a new ballpark opened in 2003. The 51s plain to construct and open Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin by 2019.
In 1999, UNLV officials refused to discuss a new agreement with the owners of the Las Vegas Thunder of the International Hockey League to play at the Thomas & Mack Center. Hotels with facilities suitable for the Thunder would not commit to an entire hockey season, as this would have seriously restricted the dates available for concerts and other events. This left the Thunder without a place to play. The team was disbanded, and the city lost hockey for four years. Only the opening of a new arena (considerably smaller than the Thomas & Mack) at the off-Strip Orleans Hotel allowed for the return of hockey with the Las Vegas Wranglers of the ECHL. The ECHL is considered two steps below the NHL, or the equivalent of the 'AA' level in minor league baseball. The Thunder was one step above that. The Wranglers ceased operations after the 2013-'14 season after Orleans Hotel owners Boyd Gaming informed the team that their lease at the Orleans Arena would not be renewed, and efforts to find a new location failed.[31]
The Las Vegas Locomotives began play in October 2009 in the inaugural season of the United Football League. The Locos played in the first three UFL championship games, winning the first[32] two[33] against the Florida Tuskers, while losing the 2011 edition to the relocated Tuskers, then the Virginia Destroyers.[34] The head coach was Jim Fassel, former head coach of the NFL's New York Giants. The team played home games at UNLV's Sam Boyd Stadium. The league suspended operations in the middle of the 2012 season, with Las Vegas undefeated through the first four games.[35] Las Vegas, despite being the league's best and most consistent team on the field, was also consistently one of the poorest draws at the gate in the league; their final home game drew only 600 fans into the stadium, a league record low.
Af2, a second-tier arena football league, announced on June 24 that the ArenaCup, the league championship game, would be played in Las Vegas at the Orleans Arena on August 22, 2009.[36] Af2 President Jerry Kurz stated that the league had serious plans to put a team in Las Vegas to play at the Orleans Arena.[37] He said that he had "no qualms" about this even given the problems that the Las Vegas Gladiators of the Arena Football League had in the city. This turned out to be the last season of af2 due to the demise of its parent league, the original Arena Football League.
In 2005–06, the city hosted ArenaBowl XIX and ArenaBowl XX at the Thomas & Mack Center, the AFL's first neutral-site title games. After two years of disappointing attendance the game was moved.
Former professional teams[edit]
Team/Club
League
Venue
Founded
Final
Titles
Las Vegas Americans Major Indoor Soccer League Thomas & Mack Center 1984 1985
Las Vegas Bandits International Basketball League Thomas & Mack Center 2000 2001
Las Vegas Cowboys Continental Football League Cashman Field 1968 1969
Las Vegas Coyotes Roller Hockey International Santa Fe Hotel & Casino Ice Arena 1999 1999
Las Vegas Dustdevils Continental Indoor Soccer League MGM Grand Garden Arena
Thomas & Mack Center 1994 1995 1 (1994)
Las Vegas Flash Roller Hockey International Thomas & Mack Center 1994 1994
Las Vegas Gladiators Arena Football League Thomas & Mack Center
Orleans Arena 2003 2007
Las Vegas Knights Premier Arena Soccer League Las Vegas Sports Park 2006 2014 3
Las Vegas Legends Major Arena Soccer League Orleans Arena (7,773) 2012 2016
Las Vegas Locomotives United Football League Sam Boyd Stadium (36,800) 2009 2012 2
Las Vegas Outlaws XFL Sam Boyd Stadium 2001 2001
Las Vegas Outlaws Arena Football League Thomas & Mack Center 2015 2015
Las Vegas Posse Canadian Football League Sam Boyd Stadium 1994 1994
Las Vegas Quicksilvers North American Soccer League Sam Boyd Stadium 1977 1977
Las Vegas PROLYMs American Basketball Association 2006 2007
Las Vegas Rattlers American Basketball Association All American Sportspark 2004 2005
Las Vegas Showgirlz Women's Football Alliance Faith Lutheran Jr/Sr High School 2006 2017
Las Vegas Silvers Continental Basketball Association 1982 1983
Las Vegas Silver Bandits International Basketball League Thomas & Mack Center 1999 2000
Las Vegas Slam American Basketball Association Thomas & Mack Center 2001 2002
Las Vegas Stallions FC National Premier Soccer League Piggott Memorial Stadium (3,000) 2013
Las Vegas Stars International Basketball League Stations Sports Complex 2007 2008
Las Vegas Strikers NPSL Bettye Wilson Soccer Complex 2003 2008
Las Vegas Sting Arena Football League MGM Grand Garden Arena
Thomas & Mack Center 1994 1995
Las Vegas Tabagators WPSL Bettye Wilson Soccer Complex 2005 2006
Las Vegas Thunder International Hockey League Thomas & Mack Center 1993 1999
Las Vegas Venom American Basketball Association 2006 2006
Las Vegas Wranglers various 1947 1952 1 (1949)
Las Vegas Wranglers various 1957 1958
Las Vegas Wranglers ECHL Orleans Arena 2003 2014
Silver State Legacy Women's Football Alliance Legacy High School 2010 2017
College sports[edit]
UNLV Basketball at the Thomas and Mack Center
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Rebels (the name Runnin' Rebels is used only by the men's basketball team) host Mountain West Conference events on the UNLV campus and eight miles (13 km) east, at Sam Boyd Stadium. Indoor sporting events are held at the Thomas & Mack Center complex, both at the main arena and at Cox Pavilion, a smaller arena attached to the complex.
The College of Southern Nevada (CSN) Coyotes host Scenic West Athletic Conference events on the CSN campus at William R. Morse Stadium and at Heritage Park both in Henderson.
The city has become a regional hub for college basketball conference tournaments. The Mountain West Conference (MW) holds its annual tournaments for both men and women at the Thomas & Mack Center. Las Vegas hosted the tournaments for the first seven years of the MW's existence, with the tournaments returning to Las Vegas in 2009 after three years in Denver. In 2009 the West Coast Conference, which does not have a team in Nevada, moved its men's and women's tournaments to the Orleans Arena. The Western Athletic Conference moved both of its tournaments to Las Vegas in 2011. The WAC also plays at the Orleans Arena.
On March 14, 2012 the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the Pac-12 Conference was moving its men's basketball conference tournament to Las Vegas in 2013, to be played at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.[38] The tournament remained at this venue through the 2016 edition, after which it moved to T-Mobile Arena.
Sam Boyd Stadium, current home of UNLV football and the Las Vegas Bowl
Las Vegas hosts the Las Vegas Bowl, a college bowl game, around Christmas Day. The game generally pairs a Pac-12 team and an MW team.
Despite the state of Nevada having no collegiate wrestling itself, many of the most prestigious college wrestling events are held in the area each year. The Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational tournament has been held in the city since 1981. Some of the nations best wrestling teams, such as Michigan, Nebraska, Virginia Tech, Minnesota, Iowa State, Ohio State and Northern Iowa often attend the event. Nearby Reno, also holds a huge wrestling tournament every year for both collegiate and high school wrestling known as The Reno Tournament of Champions.
Vegas, has also been home to many international amateur wrestling events. In 2015, Vegas held the World Wrestling Championships at Orleans Arena.
Rugby union and variations[edit]
Main articles: USA Sevens and USA Women's Sevens
US Sevens 2012
The Las Vegas Blackjacks RFC are a rugby union team that compete in the Southern California Rugby Football Union.
The USA Sevens, the largest annual rugby tournament in North America, has been held in Sam Boyd Stadium every year since 2010. The tournament had been held in late January or early February until 2016, when it moved to its current date of the first full weekend in March. The USA Sevens, one of the events in the annual World Rugby Sevens Series rugby sevens circuit, moved to Las Vegas from San Diego, where it had previously been held.[3] The 2012 USA Sevens drew over 64,000 fans to the stadium and was broadcast live on NBC.[39] The Sevens World Series is an annual series of tournaments for national sevens teams, with most events featuring 16 teams competing for two distinct trophies.
The 2017 edition marked the start of a new era for sevens in Las Vegas. For the first time, the USA Sevens was joined by the USA Women's Sevens, with both tournaments being held on the same weekend at Sam Boyd Stadium. The USA Women's Sevens has been part of the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series since the circuit's creation in 2012–13; its first edition had been held in Houston before moving to suburban Atlanta for its next three editions. Only the men's tournament was held in 2018; the women's tournament was superseded by the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco.
Special sports events[edit]
The NASCAR Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series has drawn up to 165,000 fans. Las Vegas also hosts a significant number of professional fights. Many of these fights (such as those in MMA's UFC) take place near downtown or on the Strip in one of the major resort/hotel/casino event centers. Mandalay Bay is frequently a top contender as a venue for the UFC.
Las Vegas submitted a bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, but did so without United States Olympic Committee (USOC) consent. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) requires that a national Olympic committee nominates a city within their country followed by the submission of the bid to the IOC. The USOC stated that they would not submit a 2020 bid. Las Vegas proceeded without USOC support. The IOC reportedly rejected the bid.[40] The day after the September 1, 2011 deadline for bidding, the IOC revealed the six applicant cities and Las Vegas was not one of them.[41]
Individual sports[edit]
Boxing[edit]
Las Vegas is host to many professional boxing matches and has hosted many championship bouts, including the following notable bouts:
Larry Holmes vs. Muhammad Ali (1980)
The Battle of the Little Giants (1981)
Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns (1981, 1989)
Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney (1982)
Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns (1985)
Julio César Chávez vs. Meldrick Taylor aka Thunder Meets Lightning (1990)
Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. vs. Hector Camacho Sr. (1992)
Michael Carbajal vs. Humberto Gonzalez I (1993)
Oscar De La Hoya vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. (1996, 1998)
The Bite Fight (1997)
Fight of the Millennium (1999)
Barrera vs. Morales trilogy (2000, 2002, 2004)
Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather (2007)
Floyd Mayweather vs. Ricky Hatton (2007)
Bernard Hopkins vs. Joe Calzaghe (2008)
Ricky Hatton vs. Manny Pacquiao (2009)
Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao (2015)
Canelo Álvarez vs. Amir Khan (2016)
Sergey Kovalev vs. Andre Ward (2016)
Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor (2017)
Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin (2017)
Golf[edit]
Las Vegas hosts two pro tour events:
PGA Tour Shriners Hospitals for Children Open (historically known as the Las Vegas Invitational)
PGA Tour Champions Las Vegas Open
The Las Vegas Country Club previously hosted the LPGA Takefuji Classic from 2003 until 2006.
Mixed martial arts[edit]
Along with significant rises in popularity in mixed martial arts (MMA), a number of fight leagues such as the premier MMA organization in the world the UFC call Las Vegas home with the headquarters of world operations due to the number of suitable host venues with an annual international fight week held near July 4. The Mandalay Bay Events Center and MGM Grand Garden Arena are among some of the more popular venues for fighting events and have hosted several UFC and other MMA title fights, with the addition of the new T-Mobile Arena.
Motorsports[edit]
NASCAR racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Las Vegas has become an internationally known motor racing locale, having hosted the elite Formula One racers at Caesars Palace and the Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) for Indy racers in the early 1980s. Las Vegas is also home to the Mint 400, an off-road race run in the unforgiving Nevada desert outside Las Vegas. During the race's "classic era" from 1967 to 1987, as many as 100,000 spectators lined the 100-mile (160 km) loop to view the 500-plus off-road racing vehicles. Sponsored by Del Webb's Mint Hotel and Casino, the event was the largest and richest event in the sport. The technical and safety inspection was held on famed Fremont Street and became one of the major must-attend sporting events in Las Vegas history. After the 1987 race, the Del Webb organization sold the Mint Hotel to the adjacent Horseshoe owned by the legendary Binion gaming family, and the race was discontinued after the 1989 edition. In 2008, the Mint 400 was revived under new management, and since 2012 it has been held on a completely new 100-mile desert loop.
Over the years, Vegas was the host for the Caesars Palace Grand Prix.
The Can-Am Challenge Cup races in 1966–68 were held at the old Stardust Raceway and were officially called the Stardust Grand Prix.
In July 2006, the Las Vegas City Council approved a 2.44-mile, 14-turn, counterclockwise street circuit in the downtown area for a Champ Car event slated for April 6–8, 2007.[42]
Las Vegas hosts these motor sports at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway:
NASCAR Cup Series: Kobalt 400
NASCAR Xfinity Series: Boyd Gaming 300
NASCAR Truck Series: Las Vegas 350
Denso Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals (April)
NHRA Toyota Nationals (November)
Monster Jam World Finals at Sam Boyd Stadium (March)
Professional wrestling[edit]
Over the years, Las Vegas has housed many wrestling events for WWE such as WrestleMania IX at Caesars Palace, No Way Out (2001) housed at the Thomas & Mack Center, Vengeance (2005), Monday Night Raw, and No Way Out (2008). Las Vegas also hosted World Championship Wrestling's Halloween Havoc from 1996 to 2000 and TNA Wrestling's TNA Impact! along with numerous Ring of Honor Pay Per View and televised events including the 13th and 14th Anniversary Shows, along with Death Before Dishonor XIV and Death Before Dishonor XV.
Rodeo[edit]
The National Finals Rodeo has drawn thousands of fans to the city since 1985; a contract extension was signed in 2005 keeping the event in Las Vegas through 2014, followed by another extension that will keep the event in Las Vegas through 2024. The Professional Bull Riders circuit also holds its world finals in Las Vegas. Before 2016, both held their finals at the Thomas & Mack Center, but PBR now holds its finals at T-Mobile Arena.
Las Vegas has hosted three Professional Rodeo events:
BigHorn Rodeo
PBR World Finals (1994–) — Built Ford Tough World Finals
National Finals Rodeo (1985–) — Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Wrangler National Finals Rodeo
Running and triathlon[edit]
Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas Marathon — The marathon was originally organized by Al Boka in 1983, who eventually sold the marathon in 2005 to Devine Racing, a Chicago-based race organization company that is responsible for several other races, including the Los Angeles Marathon. Devine redubbed the race as "The New Las Vegas Marathon", and updated the course to include the Strip. Introduced on December 4, 2005, the new course marks one of the race occasions that the Strip is closed to traffic. Prior to that, the course had run on the old Los Angeles Highway, beginning in the community of Jean, Nevada, and ending inside Las Vegas proper (Sunset Park). Additionally in 2005, the date of the marathon was changed from January to December to help ensure better weather. In 2009, the Las Vegas Marathon was acquired by the Competitor Group, Inc. and renamed as the Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas Marathon, as part of the company's Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series.[43]
Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup Relay – Vegas is the end point for the annual Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup Relay. This 120 mile long foot race is run in April of each year by law enforcement teams from around the world.[44] The race starts in Baker, California and is run over two days. This is the largest law enforcement athletic event in the world.[45]
The World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) had hosted the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in the Las Vegas metropolitan area from 2011 to 2013.[46] The swim portion of the competition is held at Lake Las Vegas, and the bike and run portions are held in the Henderson, Nevada area.[47] In 2014, the race was renamed the Ironman 70.3 Silverman as the championship race began the practice of changing to a new location each year going forward.[48]
The Lake Las Vegas/Henderson, Nevada area was host to the ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships on November 5, 2011 and organized by the International Triathlon Union. The venue featured the same course as the previously held Nevada Silverman Triathlon.[49]
Other events[edit]
Las Vegas is home to the Tennis Channel Open hosted at Darling Tennis Center. An international series tournament with a $1,000,000 prize fund which attracts stars such as Lleyton Hewitt, James Blake and Las Vegas native Andre Agassi.
In 2006, the city hosted the USAFL National Championships, the biggest event in the United States for the sport of Australian rules football, with over 2,000 players from the US and Canada including local team Las Vegas Gamblers.
The annual Evolution Championship Series fighting game event – which holds the largest fighting game tournaments in the world – has been hosted in Las Vegas since its rebranding in 2002.
Las Vegas is home to the professional paintball team Las Vegas LTZ and amateur team Sin City Paintball.
Las Vegas is home of the American Ninja Warrior national finals since season 4, which resembles the Mt. Midoriyama course from its Japanese TV series Sasuke. Here, 90 competitors from around the country compete in this city to earn the title of American Ninja Warrior champion and the cash prize of $1,000,000.
eSports organization Major League Gaming hosted an MLG gaming event in Las Vegas from 2006-2008, featuring competitive Halo, Call of Duty, and other gaming tournaments. Las Vegas will be hosting an MLG event called MLG Vegas from December 16-18th. 2016.
Sports venues[edit]
Arenas[edit]
All Net Resort and Arena (2019)
Cox Pavilion
Las Vegas Ice Center
Mandalay Bay Events Center
MGM Grand Garden Arena
Orleans Arena
Sobe Ice Arena
South Point Events Center
Thomas & Mack Center
T-Mobile Arena
Golf courses[edit]
Primm Valley Golf Club
Rio Secco Golf Club
Shadow Creek Golf Club – Private
TPC Las Vegas (formerly TPC at The Canyons)
TPC at Summerlin – Private
Wynn Golf and Country Club
Rhodes Ranch
Tuscany
Badlands
The Club at Sunrise
Las Vegas Golf Club
Motor sports[edit]
Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Sports fields[edit]
Bettye Wilson Soccer Complex
Cashman Field
Sam Boyd Stadium
Las Vegas Ballpark (2019)
Las Vegas Stadium (2020)
See also[edit]
Las Vegas Desert Classic (darts)
Fabulous Sin City Rollergirls (WFTDA) (roller derby)
Sports in Nevada
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