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Regina Miller oral history interview, 2025 July 07
Oral history interview with Regina Miller conducted by Claytee D. White on July 7, 2025 for the Game On! The Oral History of Sports in Las Vegas project. In this interview, Miller recalls growing up in North Carolina where she attended basketball camps in the summer. After graduating from Old Dominion University in 1982, she was ranked as the best player in the country. Her head coaching career began at Western Illinois, and then she moved to Las Vegas to coach the women's basketball team beginning in 1998 for ten years. During her time at UNLV, she lobbied for a better facility for the women to play, which led to Cox Pavilion, where her hand prints are saved in cement. Miller also started "Duel in the Desert," a tournament that showcased some of the best teams in the country. Miller ended her coaching career at the University of Illinois, but never sold her home in Las Vegas and returned to work in fundraising for the Animal Foundation. Digital audio available; no transcript available.
Collection Name: Game On! The Oral History of Las Vegas Sports Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Steve Hobbs oral history interview
Oral history interview with Steve Hobbs conducted by Howie Basuk on February 17, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Hobbs describes the different sports he was in and includes the various rewards and championships he accomplished. Hobbs also talks about becoming general manager of Olympian Incorporated.
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Photograph of a baseball player, Philadelphia (Pa.), 1922-1926
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Transcript of interview with Robert Allen III by Leonardo Gray, March 21, 1978
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Transcript of interview with Bob Arum by Barbara Tabach, October 20, 2016
Bob Arum is the founder and CEO of Top Rank boxing promotions company in Las Vegas, Nevada. Born in New York, Arum is a former attorney and a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He promoted his first fight for Muhammad Ali in 1966 and moved Top Rank’s headquarters to Las Vegas in 1986. He has produced countless fights in the city and helped to make it “The Fight Capital of the World.” In this interview, Arum talks about the path that led him to a career in boxing promotion, from childhood in Brooklyn, New York, to education at New York University and Harvard Law School, and finally meeting Muhammad Ali while working at New York law firm. He discusses his work with Ali, as well as other boxers, including Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns, Roberto Durán, George Foreman, and Oscar De La Hoya, and the growth and evolution of the sport over the past forty years. In addition, Arum talks about the role of Judaism in his life, his involvement with the local Jewish community, and the importance of the Chabad movement.
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Milt Palmer Photographs
The Milt Palmer Photographs (approximately 1950-1991) contain original and reproductions of photographic prints taken by Milt Palmer, a photographer who worked for the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, and later under the division known as the Las Vegas News Bureau. Palmer captured celebrities and entertainers performing their Las Vegas shows, athletes in various sporting events, and various political figures. The majority of photographs in the collection are from approximately the 1950s to 1960s and some are signed by entertainers. The collection also includes digital reproductions of approximately half of the images found in the collection.
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