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Dim The Lights For Tark, Las Vegas, Nevada. 4,399 likes 2 talking about this. The official page of the Feb. 18 dimming of the lights on famous Las Vegas Strip, to honor legendary coach Jerry. The lights of the Las Vegas Strip are expected to dim this week for deceased University of Nevada, Las Vegas basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian. LAS VEGAS (AP) — The marquees on the glimmering Las Vegas Strip dimmed their lights for three minutes Monday night as officials slowly read the 58 names of the people killed one year earlier in the country's deadliest mass shooting in modern history. The names of the slain were recited before a silent crowd punctuated by sobs shortly after 10:05 p.m., nearly the exact time 12 months earlier. A year before that, on May 15, 1998, Strip lights were dimmed 'albeit briefly and haphazardly' (according to coverage in the Las Vegas Review-Journal), in honor of Frank Sinatra; it was a day after his death. That ceremony was a bit prompter than the one for Dean Martin, on Dec. 28, 1995, which occurred three days after Dino’s demise. The lights on the Strip have been dimmed for President John F. Kennedy, Elvis, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, George Burns, Frank Sinatra, President Ronald Reagan, 9/11 and Jerry Tarkanian 'Tark the Shark'. Beginning in 2009, the lights of the Strip have been dimmed annually in March for Earth Hour.

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The late UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian is getting an honor afforded to less than a dozen people in history. On Wednesday night, after the Runnin’ Rebels’ game against Boise State finishes, the lights of the Las Vegas strip will dim to pay tribute to the coach who put Vegas on the college basketball map.

Tark’s UNLV teams embodied the the city’s eventual slogan — “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” — so it’s only natural that he’s sent off with a classic desert tribute. Tark, who died last week at age 84, was a throwback — a great sporting character everybody had a favorite story or quote about.

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Mine: “I always like to get transfers, especially from the Pac-10. They already have their cars paid for.”

Tark’s 1991 Rebels were defending national champions and one of the most dominant teams in college basketball history. The Larry Johnson-led squad is still the last since the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers to enter the Final Four with an undefeated record, but a shock loss to Duke ended hopes of a back-to-back title and a historic undefeated season. In those two years, Tark’s Rebels won 13 tournament games. In the 23 years since, the Rebs have three tournament victories.

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Other people to get the honor of a dimmed Vegas strip are Elvis Presley, Rat Packers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., Vegas staple George Burns and Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. (The strip has been darkened for other events, such as 9/11.)

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What’s happening Wednesday is a tremendous honor, but it’s too bad they couldn’t turn the wattage up on all the neon, brightening the city like Tark did when he was the NCAA’s lone wolf out in Vegas for 19 years. Or they could have draped a white, terry cloth towel over the city, if only for a moment.