CRESPI HOOP TEAM DIDN'T MIND LEAVING LAS VEGAS.Byline: Vincent Bonsignore Daily News Staff Writer Crespi High School basketball coach Dick Dornan took his players sightseeing Saturday night in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . What he saw was frightening. Dornan and his team were at the MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. Grand Hotel shortly after the Evander Holyfield-Mike Tyson fight when more than a thousand people began racing for the exits after mistaking a dropped champagne bottle for gunshots. ``All of a sudden this mad dash of people started running toward us,'' said junior guard Tim McDonough. ``People were screaming to get down and run. We had no idea what was going on.'' Dornan brought the team to the MGM Grand after a two-day basketball camp at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Plenty of worst-case scenarios ran through his mind in the moments after the melee, which resulted in 40 injuries. ``I thought somebody was shooting a gun or at the very least a fight had broke out,'' Dornan said. ``My biggest concern was getting my players out of there as quickly as possible.'' Pat Casella, a junior guard, reacted by diving under a blackjack blackjack, one of the world's most widely played gambling card games; also known as twenty-one or vingt-et-un. Despite contesting claims between the French and Italians, its origins are unknown. table for cover. Some of the Celts The following pages provide lists of nations or people of Celtic origin, arranged by branch of Celtic ethnicity or language grouping: Goidelic Celts
``I wasn't really scared, just a little confused because I still didn't know what was going on,'' said Casella. ``By the time I got up and looked around I didn't see (Dornan). So me and about three other guys started looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. him.'' Dornan had come back inside the casino to track down the rest of his players. As soon as he gathered the entire team, they raced to their van and drove back to their hotel. ``We figured we'd see some celebrities and take in the whole atmosphere,'' Dornan said. Dornan, a team trainer and 12 players walked through the MGM Grand for about an hour alongside stars like Emmitt Smith Emmitt James Smith III (born May 15 1969 in Pensacola, Florida) is a former American football player, who played for the Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals. Smith is a three time Super Bowl champion and the NFL's all time rushing leader, a record formerly held by his childhood , Allen Iverson <noinclude></noinclude> Allen Ezail Iverson (born June 7, 1975, in Hampton, Virginia[1]), nicknamed A.I. and The Answer, is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association. and Chuck Person Chuck Connors Person (born June 27, 1964 in Brantley, Alabama) is an American former professional player in the National Basketball Association. Selected fourth in the 1986 NBA Draft out of Auburn University by the Indiana Pacers, the small forward won the Rookie of the Year . ``It was pretty cool up until then,'' said Casella, a sophomore guard. Looking back, the Celts feel fortunate that they got away unscathed. ``Things were happening so fast that I really didn't have time to think about what was going on,'' McDonough said. ``The only reason you'd figure people would be running around like that is if somebody was firing a gun. We're lucky that it wasn't as serious as that.'' McDonough said the experience hasn't soured him on Las Vegas. ``This definitely won't prevent me from going back,'' he said. |
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