Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred talked to the Review-Journal after Monday’s groundbreaking ceremony for the Athletics’ stadium in Las Vegas.
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Mick joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal in November 2018 and covers sports business and transportation. He previously worked at the Las Vegas Sun covering a variety of beats including transportation, business, gaming, and city and county government. Prior to that, he worked at the Pahrump Valley Times, where he was named the Nevada Press Association’s Outstanding Journalist in the intermediate category for his coverage of the Lamar Odom brothel overdose situation, rural healthcare and more. Mick was born in Texas but grew up in Las Vegas, attending UNLV’s Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies where he was a member of the Kappa Tau Alpha National Journalism Society.
Major League Baseball Hall of Famer and Athletics great Reggie Jackson will throw out the first pitch at next month’s Battle for Vegas charity softball game.
The lead designer of the Athletics Las Vegas ballpark will give a look inside how the idea of the facility came to life this weekend as part of the Neon Museum’s Duck Duck Shed event.
With the second-annual Las Vegas Grand Prix completed, crews are already tearing down the infrastructure tied to the 3.8-mile street circuit, with the majority of the work planned to conclude by Christmas.
Motorists should brace for heavy traffic around Las Vegas during Thanksgiving weekend as droves of people travel in and out of Southern Nevada to celebrate turkey day with family and friends.
With year two of the Las Vegas Grand Prix in the books, officials are already looking toward the future of the mega event being held annually in Southern Nevada.
Come 2:30 a.m. Oct. 9, the pair of Tropicana hotel towers that have stood on the Strip for decades will come down in less than 30 seconds.
Another local Southern Nevada business has filed a lawsuit relating to claimed negative financial impacts caused by last year’s Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Bally’s Corp Chairman Soo Kim offers insight into whether the company’s $4.6 billion deal with a hedge fund will affect the A’s planned Las Vegas ballpark.
Two straight weekends of major directional closures on a 6-mile portion of Interstate 15 near the resort corridor kicked off Friday night.
Oak View Group and Sports Illustrated are joining forces to bring the Club SI hospitality space to life for the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix.
New York Mets owner Steve Cohen has purchased a 5.5 percent stake into Sphere Entertainment, the parent company of Sphere in Las Vegas.
The Oakland Athletics have hired Legends to oversee premium seating and ticket sales of the team’s Las Vegas ballpark, scheduled to open for the 2028 season.
Two of the larger ongoing road projects affecting traffic around the resort corridor will see another round of road and lane closures in the coming weeks.
“Luckily we make more money with one exhibition soccer game at the Coliseum than we do throughout the entire A’s season,” Leigh Hanson, Mayor Sheng Thao’s chief of staff, said.