Bo Bernhard oral history interview, 2025 October 10

Oral history interview with Bo Bernhard on October 10, 2025 conducted by Claytee D. White for the Game On! The Oral History of Las Vegas Sports project. In this interview, Bernhard reminisces about growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1970s. First growing up on the East side, then West, Bernhard got to witness all the entertainment popping up across the valley. Involved in sports from an early age, Bernhard first joined a youth soccer team, The Burners, and later joined little league baseball. In high school, he played four years of both soccer and baseball at Bonanza High School, and continued to play while attending Harvard University. Sports continued to entwine themselves with Bernhard’s life, as he joined the MLB International Berlin Flamingos team after graduating. Bernhard returned to the United States and wrote his thesis about Las Vegas history. Now a professor at UNLV, he describes eventually meeting Raiders owner Mark Davis, which led to Bernhard helping write the proposal that brought the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas. Digital audio available; no transcript available.