There is likely only three chances left this season to bet against UNLV, which has lost nine straight games while going 1-7-1 against the spread and has covered only two of their last 14 games.
Motor Sports
Daytona 500 champion Kurt Busch will be back behind the wheel and on the race track again on Sunday, but first, he gets to celebrate a little more.
Kurt Busch, who closed as a 28-1 long shot, helped bail out Las Vegas sports books, which would’ve taken a big hit had Chase Elliott won.
The carnage that was Sunday’s 59th running of the Daytona 500 was devastating when it came to twisted metal, bone-dry fuel tanks and broken hearts. Take the 3-1 betting favorite, Dale Earnhardt Jr., for instance.
Everything seemed blueprint-perfect Sunday afternoon for stock car racer Kyle Busch, brother of Daytona 500 winner Kurt Busch.
Surprisingly, there were more groans than cheers when Kurt Busch’s rivals ran out gas and the Las Vegas native pulled away to win his first Daytona 500 victory.
Kurt Busch led a solitary lap of the Daytona 500. It was the right one. The last one. And, finally — vroom! — his desertlike drought at the Daytona 500 was quenched.
Brendan Gaughan will slide into the snug cockpit of his brawny midnight-black Chevrolet stock car Sunday and occupy a seat his team owner, Mark Beard, has coveted since childhood.
Handicapper Micah Roberts likes William Hill’s prop on Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s finish position to go over 6½ (minus-135) in the Daytona 500 on Sunday.
Talented racing brothers Kurt and Kyle Busch each has won a Cup Series championship, but they are a combined 0-for-26 in the Great American Race.
Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon will drive the honorary pace car for Sunday’s Daytona 500.
Las Vegas native and Green Valley High graduate Jamie Little brings her family along for a fast ride at Sunday’s Great American Race.
Brendan Gaughan was the only NASCAR driver to earn a shoutout in Allen Iverson’s Hall of Fame induction speech last fall. AI and Gaughan?
With five local drivers competing at Daytona this week and another crop of young talent coming up behind them, Southern Nevada could be well represented for years to come.
As the fastest of NASCAR’s six noncharter drivers in pole day qualifying, Xfinity Series veteran Brendan Gaughan is assured a spot in the 40-car Daytona 500 field.
