The Heat FC Soccer Club, the competitive soccer program of the Southern Nevada Soccer Association, hosted its annual college signing ceremony Feb. 3 at Red Rock Country Club. Twenty-four student-athletes who will be continuing their soccer careers at the collegiate level were honored.
Last week was an unlucky one for UNLV athletes off the court. Members of UNLV’s basketball and track teams were burglarized in separate incidents recently — while the teams were traveling to compete in other states.
Las Vegas Sands’ pitch for a $1.2 billion domed football stadium on the UNLV campus is off and running.
Early figures show Las Vegas Sands’s ask for tourism-based taxes for its joint project with UNLV would be among the biggest ever for an NFL-ready stadium.The size of Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s stadium subsidy ask bucks current trends in the funding of football stadium construction, sports economists say.
Speaking for the first time since visiting Las Vegas on Friday, Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis said Monday the prospect of moving his team to Nevada is “interesting” but he’s not sure how well it would be received by the rest of the NFL.
