No one could have imagined that the first home game in the history of the NHL expansion team would be defined by such a mournful cause, but as it has so many times in the worst of moments, sports proved to be a powerful remedy.
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Nick Robone, the 28-year-old assistant UNLV hockey coach who was hit in the chest by a bullet shot by Stephen Paddock, knows that when the Route 91 Harvest festival was turned into a shooting gallery, he was lucky.
From their current hometown, the Raiders honored their future one.
Country music superstar Jason Aldean didn’t listen to UFC boss Dana White. And some hospitalized victims of last week’s mass shooting in Las Vegas are grateful.
UFC president Dana White plans to honor the heroes and victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas at UFC 216 and wants as many first responders as possible to be there to witness the event in person.
The Cougars and the Wolves honored slain police officer and youth football coach Charleston Hartfield with an emotional pregame ceremony at Basic High School.
Her father was UNLV’s quarterback after Randall Cunningham, so perhaps it wasn’t a big surprise how Savannah Stallworth reacted after deadly shots rang out at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival that left 58 dead and more than 500 injured.
Rather than attending the final night of the Route 91 Harvest festival, Golden Knights goaltender Calvin Pickard was on lockdown with teammates at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
There will be electricity when the puck is dropped for the Vegas Golden Knights’ home opener, but that was going to occur before the Route 91 concert massacre. Now there also will be emotion that those in the nosebleed sections will feel.
What such sorrow has displayed in the hours following those tragic moments is that we as a city and state can’t be broken, that together we are much stronger than any singular force of abomination.