The man who paid an expansion fee of $500 million to deliver Las Vegas its first major league professional sports team isn’t one to sit back and wait for anything.
Ed Graney
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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.
On the day history is made for Las Vegas and its NHL team, the key will be how things look at the box office 3 years from now.
This is bigger than UNLV winning its national championship in basketball, and Greg Maddux making the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and every Grand Slam trophy Andre Agassi held aloft.
Gabe Gauthier is part of the overwhelming majority that believes hockey is coming to T-Mobile Arena, and knows better than most where Foley’s franchise should begin its pursuit of a long-term fan base.
As another NBA Finals heads toward conclusion and another summer of potential change approaches, Adam Silver continues to promote moves that are anything but good for the game.
The more times the UFC bullies and removes and bans journalists, the more others will be fearful of similar actions and choose not to report what could be highly important stories about the health and well-being of fighters or other critical matters.
One day after Muhammad Ali died at age 74, his grandson Biaggio Ali Walsh on Saturday night was named Male Athlete of the Year at the Review-Journal’s first Best of Nevada Preps banquet at Red Rock Resort.
Months of whispers became public Thursday when UNLV president Len Jessup said the school has raised $5 million to $6 million toward building an on-campus football facility.
Dave Guinane has taught shooting since 1993 and has since given more than 40,000 lessons on a skill that comes easy to many and yet can bewilder even some who make tens of millions of dollars a year playing the game at its highest level.