[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 82 (Tuesday, June 15, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6790-S6791]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    ON THE RETIREMENT OF ROYCE FEOUR

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, 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

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the 1988 World Series, he got on the phone and dictated a story about 
the quake.
  Royce is best known for covering boxing in Las Vegas. He has reported 
on nearly every major championship fight in the city, going back to the 
Sonny Liston-Floyd Patterson heavyweight title bout at the Las Vegas 
Convention Center in 1963. He has chronicled the careers of boxing 
legends such as Muhammed Ali, Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones, Evander 
Holyfield, Riddick Bowe, Julio Cesar Chavez, Roberto Duran, Larry 
Holmes, Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Roy Jones Jr., 
Thomas Hearns and Oscar de La Hoya.
  For his incredible work, Royce has earned several Nevada Press 
Association awards and was named Writer of the Year by the North 
American Boxing Federation. He was the Las Vegas Boxing Hall of Fame's 
Local Media Man of the Year. And in 1996, he was awarded the Nat 
Fleischer Award for ``Excellence in Boxing Journalism'' by the Boxing 
Writers Association of America.
  That is the highest honor that can be given to a boxing reporter. But 
I honor Royce for his brand of friendship. Royce, thanks for being my 
friend.
  Royce Feour's exceptional skills and lasting devotion to his trade 
are remarkable. He is truly one of the heavyweights of the Nevada 
press. Please join me in honoring his years of extraordinary work, and 
wishing him well in his retirement.

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