After a short stay at TCU, Tony Sanchez, who compiled a 20-40 record at UNLV, hopes to help turn around a New Mexico State football program for which he once played.
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This season the atmosphere at Allegiant Stadium should be much more palpable provided a new strain of the virus doesn’t torment Las Vegas the way the Dolphins’ Ryan Fitzpatrick did the Raiders on the day after Christmas.
By opening Allegiant Stadium for a practice jamboree, the Raiders have helped provide local high school football teams with a silver lining amid COVID.
Last March when COVID-19 was starting to germinate, the NFL expanded its Super Bowl tournament to include 14 teams, spawning the advent of Super Wild Card Weekend.
Stage Door Casino was among those to extend offers to Wayne Mabry — aka “Violator” — who said he had been priced out of following the Raiders to Las Vegas.
A college football playoff points system devised by a Las Vegas softball coach is much less complicated than the official one, produces a similar field and removes subjectivity.
Main topics of discussion at last week’s Las Vegas Bowl kickoff luncheon was the game moving up in stature and perhaps attracting a new college football opening weekend classic once Las Vegas Stadium is built.
Dan Wetzel, a sports columnist at Yahoo, said it hardly seems equitable that a bunch of guys who never played the game should be the ones deciding who gets to wear the yellow blazers.
It may not be the most scientific poll, but jersey sales at Dick’s Sporting Goods say Nevadans root for Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts.
In a couple of weeks it’ll be football season again, and then Friday night at high school games it’ll be the three P’s again: pork, poi, pineapple.
