Any restaurant or bar that wants to lure in the sports crowd and call itself a sports destination begins with the basics – lots of beer and lots of TVs showing a wide range of sports all day. Add well-prepared food like stone-fired pizzas, giant burgers, and grilled fish and steaks and now you've got a good sports bar. But if you want to be great, you've got to have something special – one-of-a-kind memorabilia – and in Sin City that place is Trophy’s inside Green Valley Ranch Station Casino, located in Henderson.

The "Trophys Collection" as it's called, is arguably one of the best privately-assembled displays of rare, authentic sports memorabilia anywhere. Most of the pieces are downright fascinating by virtue of their design, subject matter or accompanying story. Some trophies have been painstakingly restored to their original luster, some recreated, and others preserved in a state of arrested decay. In some cases, the Collection's curators have obtained permission to actually re-cast important pieces from the original molds (i.e., the NFL's MVP Trophy). Trophy's is open for lunch and dinner, from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Trophy’s inside Green Valley Ranch Station Casino, I-215 at Green Valley Parkway; (702) 617-3300.