The Vegas Knight Hawks delivered one of their most important wins of the season Saturday to move to 9-3. They’re close to the first IFL playoff appearance in team history.
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The NHL draft is the latest marquee league event to hit Las Vegas since the Golden Knights began play seven years ago. The Sphere could make it a show to remember.
The 2024 NHL draft should be full pizzazz with the event taking place Friday and Saturday at The Sphere. But here’s what to watch for when the picks start coming in.
The Panthers are -110 favorites at the Westgate SuperBook in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final at Florida. The total is 5½.
One of the finest freshmen to wear a UNLV uniform is focused on his second season. Don’t think he wasn’t chased with enticements this offseason that would have been more lucrative than his NIL deal with UNLV.
On a night when boxing proved the ultimate winner, when one of the most anticipated fights in history delivered in nearly every way inside the ring, it was again a sport stained by the incompetency of those employed to judge it.
Whether the wait was too long to produce the sort of classic most insist exists within the matchup will be determined Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena, where a middleweight unification title fight could set the stage for other such clashes.
It appears those involved with what could prove to be one of the sport’s all-time classics in Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin have finally moved on and stopped condemning something of which they had absolutely no connection.
No one can deny the level of worldwide enthusiasm Saturday delivered. Boxing has never been dead, and perhaps it even gained more popularity with the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight.
If those prop bets about Conor McGregor landing one more punch than a dead man even come close to cashing, the last acceptable response from a paying public should be displeasure.
Should he resort to MMA tactics and be disqualified Saturday against Floyd Mayweather, Conor McGregor reportedly could lose 90 percent of a $75 million purse.
It was three months ago when Mark Kriegel, an accomplished boxing author whose works include “The Good Son: The Life of Ray ‘Boom Boom’ Mancini,” predicted to me how the buildup to a Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight would eventually turn.
The movie wasn’t much different seven months later, which to say Sergey Kovalev was good for about six rounds against Andre Ward before the fuel gauge hit the danger zone and the vehicle’s power began to sputter.
The excitement around a Sergey Kovalev-Andre Ward rematch was modest, so losing headlines to another bout days before the fight hardly did those involved any favors.
Boxing’s history is defined by characters, and a Floyd Mayweather Jr. against Conor McGregor fight would offer a bonanza of them.
It was just a few years ago when the global economy was rocked, the domestic stock market was cratering, and concerns about local home prices emerged. More recently, economic conditions have been strong, stock values reached all-time highs, and the price of a typical home approached its previous high-water mark. Economies tend to work in […]
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The pure joy and optimism with which the patriarch of “Your New Zealand Family” views American sports could serve as a lesson to us all.
One of the finest freshmen to wear a UNLV uniform is focused on his second season. Don’t think he wasn’t chased with enticements this offseason that would have been more lucrative than his NIL deal with UNLV.
A’ja Wilson shined again, and the Aces moved to 2-0 since Chelsea Gray’s return with a comfortable win over the Connecticut Sun on Friday at Michelob Ultra Arena.
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