Olson, who came on board with the Raiders in 2018 after Jon Gruden took over as the head coach, will not be with the team when it plays the Chargers on Thursday.
Football
At some point this week, I will cross the 100-test threshold. One would think this would become old hat, but that wait for results never seems to get any less agonizing.
The Nov. 14 football game between New Mexico and UNR will be played at Sam Boyd Stadium because of COVID-19 protocols in New Mexico, the Mountain West announced Thursday.
Nine teams are being affected, some over a period of weeks through Nov. 22.
The coronavirus pandemic has inflicted substantial financial damage on the Las Vegas sports scene. Fans may need patience before a full recovery takes place.
Attorney William Schuller is demanding that he and two others be reimbursed for the tickets and the fun they would have had watching football games at Allegiant Stadium.
The Big Ten and the Pac-12 conferences on Tuesday became the first Power 5 conferences to postpone college football because of the coronavirus pandemic, leagues announced.
MAC schools rely heavily on revenue from road games against power conference teams. Most of those games were canceled when the Power Five went to exclusively or mostly conference games.
The NFL has canceled the Hall of Fame game that traditionally opens the preseason and is delaying the 2020 induction ceremonies because of the coronavirus pandemic, two people with direct knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Thursday.
There have now been seven confirmed positive cases of the coronavirus at the Allegiant Stadium project site, according to the joint venture leading the stadium’s construction.
A third worker at Allegiant Stadium tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the firm building the $2 billion facility reported Friday.
He is the second active NFL player to acknowledge testing positive during the pandemic that has sickened more than 2 million people worldwide
Raiders owner Mark Davis, inspired by his new neighbors in Las Vegas, is doing his part to fight COVID-19.
Publisher Norman Jacobs said he wanted to provide the service to help fill the void while the season is delayed because of the new coronavirus outbreak.
Raiders quarterback Marcus Mariota is teaming to cover 1,000 free grab-and-go meals every weekday at two elementary schools in Honolulu during the COVID-19 shutdown.