The bettor placed a $100 parlay in May on the Rangers to win the World Series (22-1), the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl (6-1) and a team to win the NBA title at 70-1.
Basketball
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Former Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant collected on a 13-team college basketball parlay worth more than $400,000 — at UNLV’s expense.
The most surprising thing about this week’s announcement of one college leader’s departure was that he still had that job to begin with.
The Athletics won’t play in Las Vegas until at least 2028. A lot can change in the sports landscape — including another Super Bowl here — before then.
A bettor at the Westgate SuperBook turned $100 into $125,730.49 on Sunday after hitting an 11-team multi-sport parlay.
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A FanDuel sportsbook bettor hit a five-team underdog money-line parlay comprised of four college basketball teams and a college football team.
Raiders center Hroniss Grasu is engaged to New York Liberty star guard Sabrina Ionescu, who faces the Aces in the WNBA Finals beginning Sunday at Michelob Ultra Arena.
The Pac-12 men’s and women’s basketball tournaments and football championship game will be played as scheduled in Las Vegas this coming year, but what happens after that remains to be seen.
The Mountain West is a possible option to take in the four remaining Pac-12 schools, “but this is pretty doggone fluid right now,” former UNLV AD Jim Livengood said.
UNLV and other Group of Five schools are not among the Big 12’s preferred list. Instead, the conference is focused on Arizona, while monitoring Utah, Arizona State and even Oregon and Washington.
A franchise willing to tank — lose on purpose — should be celebrated for its competitiveness as long as leagues continue to incentivize such a practice.
NFL great Tom Brady, who retired after last season with seven Super Bowl rings, recently purchased a stake in the WNBA’s Aces from majority owner Mark Davis.
For a Mountain West that has 11 members for basketball and 12 for football, including UNLV, how it reacts to a sudden defection could shape the league for its foreseeable future.