In the movie “The Bucket List,” Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson go skydiving, drive a Shelby Mustang, fly over the North Pole, eat dinner at Chevre d’or in France, visit the Taj Mahal, ride motorcycles on the Great Wall of China, go on safari in Tanzania and trek to Mount Everest in Nepal. Only to find it obscured by clouds.
With the exception of driving a Shelby Mustang — the auto racing pioneer was based here before his death, and there’s a Carroll Shelby Museum near the junctions of Interstates 15 and 215 in close proximity to McCarran International Airport — you can’t check the boxes on any of those typical Bucket List things if you’re a Las Vegas sports fan not planning to venture far from home.