After decades of trying, Las Vegas skated into the major leagues Wednesday with the NHL’s decision to award billionaire businessman Bill Foley an expansion franchise beginning with the 2017-18 season.
New owner Bill Foley has hockey people to hire. He has to bring sales people on board. He has to finalize plans and begin construction on his team’s practice facility in Downtown Summerlin.
Nearly 100 people crammed into the banquet room at O’Aces Bar & Grill on South Decatur Boulevard starting at 4 p.m. to celebrate the news that Las Vegas has officially become the 31st team in the NHL.
Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane was given the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL scoring leader and the Hart Trophy as the most valuable player to his team at the annual NHL Awards ceremony Wednesday at the Hard Rock Hotel.
Bishop Gorman’s football team was approved by the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association on Wednesday to play an 11-game regular-season schedule.
When the 1998 NCAA-title winning UNLV golf team is inducted into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame on Friday at Orleans Arena, the group will become the eighth golfer or group to receive the honor.
Former UNLV players Stephen Zimmerman Jr. and Patrick McCaw could get taken in the first round of Thursday’s NBA Draft. Derrick Jones Jr. might get selected late in the second round.
Anyone who put down a deposit for season tickets for the Las Vegas NHL team will be contacted before late July when an open house will be held at T-Mobile Arena.
Bill Foley loves the Army and everything it stands for, loves the values and discipline and traditions. He lives his life within the structure of such uniformity. It’s also how he made sports history in Las Vegas.
Jacob Eval, a member of the Shadow Ridge High School trap team, knocked down 197 of 200 targets to lead the Claybreakers to the state championship at the Fallon Trap Club.
Nevada isn’t a majority-minority state quite yet. But it is projected to be in 2022 or 2023, according to the state demographer.
Sig Rogich served as a member of the Nevada Athletic Commission and was instrumental in helping bring Hall of Fame basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian to UNLV in 1973.
The Michigan satellite football camp Wednesday at Chaparral High School was part of the school’s controversial June tour that includes 39 stops across 22 states, American Samoa and Australia.
A viral video of unidentified men draining barrels of liquid in the Nevada desert has prompted an investigation by the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection.
If you’ve had Mark Wahlberg and George Clooney’s hit “The Perfect Storm” sitting in your Netflix queue for a while, don’t wait too much longer, as it’s among the bulk of movies being removed from streaming on July 1.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is gambling on Las Vegas, finally signing off on the deal to put the first major league franchise on the Strip. The specter of dealing with legal sports wagering no longer seems to be a problem.
The Southern Nevada District Board of Health will review applications from Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center, MountainView Hospital, and Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center to determine if the institutions should be allowed to develop the trauma centers.
A political action committee backing recreational marijuana legalization has recently seen a stream of green, as in cash.
Among the eight candidates who won outright in primaries with at least three people, all but one raised the most money.
If Vegas’ NHL team is to be the people’s team, what did the people suggest on day one after the NHL expansion team announcement? “Scorpions” was very popular.
Even though it’s a year away and who knows what names could become available, here are five potential coaches for Las Vegas’ new NHL franchise come October 2017.
Benny Glaser of Southampton, England, captured his second bracelet at this year’s World Series of Poker, as he won the $10,000 buy-in Omaha Hi-Low/8 or Better event Wednesday at the Rio Convention Center.
Now, your Thursday edition of the Review-Journal will be a keeper. Not only will it include front-page coverage of the historic event, but you will get a keepsake 12-page special section.
Joe and Gavin Maloof are comfortable with their role as minority owners of the Las Vegas NHL team. They will let majority owner Bill Foley be the face of the franchise and won’t interfere with the day-to-day operation of the team.
An amended lawsuit has been filed challenging a 2007 Nevada law governing registration and community notification of sex offenders and seeking to block its implementation next month.
NAC executive director Bob Bennett revealed he had received an email from a representative for former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones shortly before the meeting expressing concern over the potential selection of John McCarthy to referee his bout against champion Daniel Cormier next month.
Rebellious Democrats staged an extraordinary all-day sit-in on the House floor Wednesday to demand votes on gun-control bills, shouting down Speaker Paul Ryan when he attempted to restore order as their protest stretched into the night.
The NHL must approve the team’s nickname, logo and colors. And there’s a mutual understanding between Foley and the league to avoid any gambling references of names.
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