Players and coaches won’t agree — and they shouldn’t — but the Raiders should be playing for the future, and that means losing games and getting a high draft pick.
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The Mountain West was damaged but not broken by realignment. Commissioner Gloria Nevarez is ready to lead the conference through a potentially less chaotic era.
UNLV football coach Dan Mullen says he wants to play the best teams. That’s why the Rebels should schedule the Broncos after they leave the Mountain West.
Underdogs started NFL Week 13 on a 9-2 against the spread run with seven outright wins, including all four games on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday.
Chip Kelly was fired as offensive coordinator by the Raiders and deserved blame for the offense’s struggles, but other factors have led to this level of failure.
Feeling uneasy about the Golden Knights’ signing of goaltender Carter Hart while also believing there is a good chance he is innocent as determined by the court and probably should be free to go on with his life isn’t hypocritical.
There was no talk about ranking systems Tuesday at Allegiant Stadium. Just special memories being created by the eight schools fighting for state titles.
It was a comeback Sunday in Week 12 of the NFL as the Chiefs, Lions, Patriots and Cowboys erased double-digit deficits, but only Dallas covered the spread.
In a historical sense, this is awful on countless levels. This is a Raiders team that absolutely belongs on a list of the most inferior in franchise history.
The latest attempts to diminish the Bishop Gorman football program’s luster could also have unintended consequences for other Southern Nevada schools.
Defensive coordinator Paul Guenther’s unit has allowed an average of 15.3 points the past three games and held Hawaii, the Mountain West’s leading offense, to 231 yards.
Raiders minority owner Tom Brady needs to be far more involved in the daily happenings of the franchise, which embarrassed itself again Monday night.
NFL favorites went 9-4 straight up but only 5-8 against the spread on Sunday as four favorites won but didn’t cover and four underdogs won outright.
Good teams find a way to win when things are hectic. Good teams make the biggest plays at the most important of times. That was the UNLV football team Saturday.
Google and Disney are counting on consumer apathy to settle back in now that a dispute that kept ESPN and ABC off the air for two weeks has been resolved.
