Political Quotes

“I rise today to honor Royce Feour who recently retired after reporting on boxing and sports for the Las Vegas Review-Journal for nearly 37 years. Royce is a legend in Nevada sports reporting. He started his career in journalism half a century ago at age 14 when he covered prep sports for the Review Journal and the High School Sports Association. He continued writing about sports at the University of Nevada-Reno with the support of two journalism scholarships. He became the editor of the school paper, and a correspondent for the Reno Evening Gazette and the Nevada State Journal. After he graduated, Royce worked for 5 years at Las Vegas Sun, where he became sports editor. He reported on the first football and baseball games at what was back then the Nevada Southern University--now UNLV. At that first football game, it was so dark by the end of the game that no one in the press box could tell if the winning kick was good. Royce covered the recruitment of UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, who lost his first game and offered to quit that same night. The offer was declined, and Tarkanian went on to win 509 games in 19 seasons, and an NCAA championship in 1990. Royce was a sportswriter, but he was also a newspaper man. So when an earthquake struck San Francisco and rocked the upper deck of Candlestick Park while he was covering game 3 of the 1988 World Series, he got on the phone and dictated a story about the quake.”