The Raiders wrap up their offseason program with a mandatory minicamp this week. Here are three things to watch as the team takes the field Tuesday through Thursday.
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Quarterback Derek Carr is already trying to calm the hype for one of the most anticipated games of his 2024 season when the Saints host the Raiders in Week 17.
The Aces see a silver lining in their rocky start to the season. Injuries have given one of their rookies a huge opportunity and she’s proven she can handle it.
The Aces couldn’t close a late deficit and lost their fourth game of the season Sunday night at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
Scottie Scheffler, the +325 favorite at the Westgate SuperBook to win the U.S. Open, is the shortest favorite to win any major since Tiger Woods in 2009.
Consider: Since the 2012 season, Mountain West teams are a combined 304-330. But the telling part, the absolutely eye-opening and ridiculous part, comes against Power 5 schools, in which the conference is 17-81 over that time.
The state’s higher education board has given Nevada’s college presidents more authority over hiring of high-profile coaches.
With no guaranteed money game on UNLV’s 2016 football schedule and men’s basketball ticket sales down 5 percent from last year at this time, the school is projected to have a budget deficit of $1.5 million to $3 million in 2016-17.
Rick Trachok, chairman of the University of Nevada Board of Regents, will propose that regents no longer vote on coaches’ contracts. The onus will be on the university president to put together a fiscally responsible deal.
Regents should have zero influence when it comes to those a university hires to run athletic programs, and that includes voting to approve the contracts offered coaches.
College coaches are more likely to describe the increasingly popular 7-on-7 events as football’s version of the travel basketball circuit. A competitive, yet unregulated, environment that mostly serves to quench fans’ thirst for offseason recruiting news.
Generosity is any act of kindness or support given with no expectation of exchange or return from the recipient(s).
The Aces see a silver lining in their rocky start to the season. Injuries have given one of their rookies a huge opportunity and she’s proven she can handle it.
The Aces couldn’t close a late deficit and lost their fourth game of the season Sunday night at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
One of the Raiders’ first Pro Bowlers in Las Vegas said in a video posted to YouTube on Sunday he plans to retire from the NFL.
Glen Gulutzan — who coached the Las Vegas Wranglers to great success between 2003 and 2009 — is on the Edmonton Oilers’ bench during the Stanley Cup Final.