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Pat Evans

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Grand Rapids
As seen in: Grand Rapids Magazine, Legal Sports Report, Crain's Chicago Business, Crain's Detroit Business, NewsBreak, WZZM-TV (Grand Rapids, MI), The Manual, Front Office Sports, Crain’s Grand Rapids Business, Our Community Now, CDC Gaming Reports, Soloazar
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Writer: @iGamingBusiness and GR Magazine. Author: Grand Rapids Beer & Nevada Beer. Past: Legal Sports Report, @FOS, GRBJ, @thesnews. Michigan State alum

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Pat Evans’s Biography

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Pat Evans is a Front Office Sports reporter based in Las Vegas.

Prior to moving his time at FOS, he moved to Las Vegas and spent two. years as a freelance writer. For five years he worked at the Grand Rapids Business Journal covering a wide array of beats, ranging from real estate and construction to technology.

While at the Business Journal, Evans wrote his first book Grand Rapids Beer: An Intoxicating History of River City Brewing. His second book, Nevada Beer, was released in 2018.

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Pat Evans’s Journalist Portfolio

Looking for Hope and Beer in Havana

Looking for Hope and Beer in Havana

As Lazaro Villalon emerged from a row of mausoleums in Havana's Cementerio de Cristobal Colon, his smile shon…

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Founders taps into the business of beer

Founders taps into the business of beer

Ten years ago, the idea Founders Brewing Co. could be among the top 15 breweries in the nation was a pipe dre…

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Grand Cuts: Inside Grand Rapids’ enduring steakhouse culture

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| Grand Rapids Magazine Verified
Bowdie's Chophouse. Photo by Amanda Kamppinen. Meat and vegetables, it does not get much simpler than that. And yet after more than a hundred years, steakhouses have served up a slab of meat and vegetable side dishes as the go-to meal for special occasions. Haute cuisine comes and goes, but steakhouses are unrivaled in their culinary staying power amongst the world’s diners. Grand Rapids is no different.
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Prediction Markets in Tail End of ‘Wild West Stage’ Says Veteran Gaming Lawyer

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| defirate.com
A veteran lawyer navigating the gambling regulation space said prediction markets are in the “tail end of the Wild West stage.” Troutman Pepper Locke partner Stephen Piepgrass told DeFi Rate in a recent interview that regulation is beginning to catch up to the rapidly expanding and evolving prediction markets industry. That comes despite the “resource-starved” Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulating the industry.
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The Best of Beer & Pizza

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| Grand Rapids Magazine Verified
A pizza flight and a selection of lagers are seen at Mitten Brewing on Tuesday, March 26, 2026. Photo by Kristen Norman. For more than a decade, the Mitten Brewing Company has quietly built a lasting pizza and beer haven. When Chris Andrus and Max Treirweiler opened the Mitten, 527 Leonard St. NW, in 2012, they did so, building on their homebrewing hobby— hoping to build a career out of something they loved.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Working at The State News at Michigan State University.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

When I was a kid I always used my mom's which she used to type college papers on. I loved it.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Danny Concannon from The West Wing.