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Steve Carp has covered many of the biggest events and personalities in Las Vegas sports history.
For the Las Vegas Sun, he reported on the University of Nevada-Las Vegas mens’ basketball team’s national championship run in 1990 and return to the Final Four in 1991, He was the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s lead beat writer for the expansion season of the Vegas Golden Knights during the team’s run to a Stanley Cup final. And he was the paper’s lead boxing writer at the height of Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s career, covering all of the major fights held in Nevada during that period along with the boxing careers of world champions Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Canelo Alvarez, Gennady Glolovkin, Shawn Porter, Jessie Vargas and Ishe Smith.
Carp reported on the 2007 NBA All-Star Game and the first 12 years of the NBA Summer League, as well as the Hall of Fame career of tennis great Andre Agassi. Las Vegans also read about college and professional football, baseball, golf and soccer, including the 1994 World Cup, from Carp’s reports.
The Brooklyn native moved to Las Vegas in August 1988 to work at the Sun. He joined the Review-Journal in 1999 and left the paper in 2018 to serve as senior editor of Gaming Today, where he managed a staff of 32 writers. He helped the weekly publication become an award-winning national paper that covered the growth of sports betting outside of Nevada, as well as the casino industry and Las Vegas entertainment scene.
Earlier in his career, Carp worked as a sports reporter at the Peninsula Times Tribune in Palo Alto, Calif. and the Statesman-Journal in Salem, Ore. He was also sports editor of the Mountain Democrat in Placerville, Calif.
Carp has too many journalism awards to fit in any reasonably sized basement. He is already a member of two other Halls of Fame — the U.S. Basketball Writers and the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame. He was named Nevada Sportswriter of the Year six times by the Nevada Sports Media Association, and has won numerous writing and reporting awards from the Nevada Press Association, Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Associated Press Sports Editors. His work has also appeared in national publications, including Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, Basketball Times, The Hockey News and Street & Smith’s.
He is the author of two books — “Vegas Born: The remarkable story of the Golden Knights” and “Runnin’: UNLV Rebels – A Basketball Legacy.”
