Steve Carp has been covering UNLV basketball since 1988, first with the Las Vegas Sun, and since 1999, with the Las Vegas Review- Journal, where he also serves as national college basketball writer.
He has also covered the National Basketball Association for several newspapers going back to 1979. His work has appeared in many publications including Sports Illustrated. Carp has won numerous writing awards. He is a two-time recipient in 2000 and 2004, of the Nevada Sportswriter of the Year Award.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., he now resides in Las Vegas. A graduate of San Jose State with a B.A. in Journalism, Carp attended Manhattan College prior to moving west.