The Raiders have begun organized team activities, which means fans have questions about how the team is shaping up so far.
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Six key Raiders players from a defense that surrendered the ninth-fewest points in the NFL last season are entering the final year of their contracts.
It could turn out nothing wrong transpired, that the sponsorship with 12 Aces players by the LVCVA complies with WNBA rules. But the deal still should be investigated.
Aces guard Kelsey Plum entered the WNBA as the No. 1 overall draft pick and the all-time leading scorer in women’s college basketball, just like Fever star Caitlin Clark.
Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever are coming off their first win of the WNBA season, while the Aces need to rebound Saturday from their first loss.
Raiders home games at Allegiant Stadium are once again the most popular purchase in the NFL on the online ticket broker StubHub.
Floyd Mayweather Sr., who trains his son, was his entertaining self Thursday with the media. Most of the questions he couldn’t understand, especially from the foreign journalists. Those he did understand, he answered with equal parts alacrity and disdain.
Ishe Smith, a former junior middleweight champion from Las Vegas, left no doubt he still has something left, winning a 10-round unanimous decision over Cecil McCalla on Thursday in the main event of a boxing card at the Palms.
Freddie Roach is a Hall of Fame trainer who for years has gone over in his mind every detail, every form of strategy, every potential surprise and counteraction, every movement that could decide a fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
For a boxing match hyped as the “fight of the century,” there sure are a lot of available tickets out there. Here’s where you can find over 1,000 tickets as of Thursday night for Saturday’s showdown between Mayweather and Pacquiao.
Even a screenwriter might have trouble scripting Manny Pacquiao’s rise from abject poverty to stardom in ring and hero status in the Philippines. “I am fighting this fight for the honor of my country and for the people of the Philippines,” Pacquiao said of the megafight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. “It is a responsibility I take very seriously.”
Rates for the cheapest rooms at MGM Grand, the host hotel for Saturday’s so-called fight of the century boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquaio, plummeted Thursday when the room cost fell to $499 a night from more than $1,500 for Friday and Saturday nights, according to Vegas.com.
Even before he could walk, Floyd Mayweather Jr. was wearing boxing gloves and throwing punches. He’s undefeated as a professional but faces the biggest fight of his career on Saturday when he faces Manny Pacquiao.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao is the first megafight for Bob Bennett, the executive director of the Nevada Athletic Commission. Among other things, the commission is in charge of the boxing gloves each fighter will use. Don’t expect to find a horseshoe in them.
Former world junior middleweight champion Ishe Smith looks to get back on track when he headlines Thursday’s card at the Palms, which will be televised on ESPN2. Smith, who is coming off a loss to WBA champ Erislandy Lara in December, faces Cecil McCalla in the 10-round main event.
If Saturday’s megafight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao is anything like Wednesday’s final news conference to promote their showdown at the MGM Grand Garden, the Nevada National Guard may have to be called out to handle the angry mob which will be the disappointed sellout crowd of 16,700.
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Aces rookie Kate Martin and Caitlin Clark, the WNBA’s No. 1 overall draft pick by the Indiana Fever, are bonded by a trait that has aided both of their success.
Special teams coordinator Tom McMahon has been hard at work trying to figure out the best way to approach kickoffs this year given the NFL’s new rule changes.
The Aces’ first meeting with rookie phenom Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever is one of the hottest tickets on online ticket broker StubHub.
The second annual Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend in November will be capped off with a Raiders game.
