Youmans joined VSiN after 24 years in the newspaper business.

He spent the past 16½ years at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he was the sports betting columnist and a 10-year beat writer covering UNLV basketball. He also covered the NFL and the Oakland Raiders’ proposed relocation to Las Vegas.

For the past seven years, he has co-hosted The Las Vegas Sportsline, a sports betting show, on ESPN Radio. He previously worked at newspapers in Indianapolis and suburban Chicago. He was a beat writer for the Bulls’ final two NBA championship teams in 1997 and 1998 and also covered NFL (Bears), MLB (White Sox) and Big Ten basketball and football beats. A 1992 graduate of Purdue University, he relocated to Las Vegas in August 2000.