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Tarkanian turned UNLV basketball into a national brand when he arrived in the 1970s. And he did so while navigating the sometimes dangerous world of old-school, mob-influenced Las Vegas.
California paid more boxers owed pensions in 2023, sending checks totaling more than half a million dollars to three dozen retired fighters following a Times investigation.
At least a quarter of the 200 boxers currently owed pensions in California had a last known address in Mexico. Now, California is partnering with Mexico to find them.
The California State Athletic Commission, which administers a 40-year-old pension plan for boxers, said it will step up efforts to find fighters with unclaimed money.
The 20-year-old college student was last seen on Nov. 9, 2002, after leaving a party in a friend's dorm at St. Johns University. His story is featured on a new episode of "Unsolved Mysteries" on Netflix.