Oral history interview with Xiaoyin Zhang conducted by Claytee D. White and Stefani Evans on April 17, 2024 for the Game On! The Oral History of Las Vegas Sports project. In this interview, Xiaoyin Zhang discusses her childhood in post-war China, learning to work as a blacksmith, and discovering table tennis as a recreational sport. Zhang graduated from Hangzhou University in 1982 and in 1987 came to the United States to pursue a degree in Library Science at University of Wisconsin, Madison. She discusses table tennis as a lifelong sport for the mind and body, for entertainment, and for social connections. She recalls the Huntsman World Senior Games, serving as captain of the UNLV Table Tennis Corporate Challenge team, and her wall full of bronze, silver, and gold medals. She also describes her work with the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Williams College, and UNLV. Digital audio available.

Oral history interview with Connor Young conducted by Claytee D. White and Stefani Evans on May 3, 2024 for the UNLV Remembers: an Oral History of the 6 December 2023 Shootings project. In this interview, Young shares his recollections from December 6, 2023. He describes teaching a class in the Carol C. Harter Building Complex, receiving an alert about the shooting, and his subsequent thoughts and actions. Young led students to safety, walked one to MGM Grand, and was later picked up by his wife. He left all his belongings in the building, which he could not retrieve until after the semester ended. Young also describes growing up Oglala among Lakota people in South Dakota. He shares about enlisting in the U. S. Air Force after high school, and drawing on that training as a medic during the shooting. Digital audio available.

Oral history interview with Jaki Baskow conducted by Claytee D. White and Stefani Evans on October 14, 2024 for the Game On! The Oral History of Las Vegas Sports project. In this interview, Baskow recalls arriving in Las Vegas, Nevada from New Jersey in 1976. She shares her early years running her own talent agency, and how her first client was Suzanne Sommers. Baskin recalls various businesses, business associates, and clients over time; and shares her thoughts on brand building, representing clients, and serving on the Super Bowl Host Committee. Baskow remembers how the Vegas Golden Knights became closely integrated into the Las Vegas community after the 1 October 2017 shooting. Lastly, she credits Oscar and Carolyn Goodman for their envisioning of Las Vegas as a sports town. Digital audio available; no transcript available.

Oral history interview with Rick Darnold conducted by Claytee D. White October 21, 2024 for the Game On! The Oral History of Las Vegas Sports project. In this interview, Darnold recalls growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada, playing little league baseball, soccer, football, and running track and field in high school. Darnold recalls eventually finding accounting, and becoming a CPA and working for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), where he worked in money laundering crimes and other finance-related cases. He shares his various experiences working with the IRS, in a private firm, and then with Boyd Group in Las Vegas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Atlantic City, and other locations in the United States. Darnold shares his love of sports as a child growing into an all-over appreciation for sports in Las Vegas. Digital audio available; no transcript available.