With two weeks remaining until Bowl Selection Sunday, the Las Vegas Bowl appears to be zeroing in on its opponents for the Dec. 16 game at Sam Boyd Stadium.
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Oakland Raiders President Marc Badain is protecting what’s going to happen at Monday’s Las Vegas stadium groundbreaking event like it’s the playbook for the team’s game next week against the New England Patriots.
By next week, Sam Boyd Stadium will be all about the 26th annual Las Vegas Bowl on Dec. 16.
John Saccenti said he’s 100 percent certain that the 26th annual Las Vegas Bowl will feature a team from the Mountain West against a Pac-12 school.
Six months ago, members of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority viewed October as the home stretch for wrapping up all the necessary paperwork required to build a $1.9 billion NFL-ready stadium to relocate the Oakland Raiders.
The executive director of the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum Authority says he hasn’t spoken with representatives of the Raiders since mid-summer and there haven’t been any discussions about the team playing at the facility through 2020.
The Clark County Commission will undertake a high-impact project review of the planned $1.9 billion, 65,000-seat Las Vegas Stadium when it meets Wednesday morning. Catch up on stadium construction news in the first presentation of the “Vegas Nation Stadium Show.”
Is there a chance the Las Vegas Bowl could evolve into a bowl game with larger implications? It happened in Phoenix with the Fiesta Bowl.
Contractors hired by the Oakland Raiders are drilling on the site of the planned 65,000-seat domed football stadium, hoping to find answers underground.
Scores of people jammed the Clark County Government Center on Thursday looking for jobs and a way to sign up for them.
Negotiations are expected to continue this month on a Las Vegas stadium joint-use agreement between the Oakland Raiders and UNLV.
The Oakland Raiders and local officials are no further along than they were a year ago in locking down a key aspect of the Las Vegas stadium project: how much it will cost.
A discussion on UNLV’s use of the 65,000-seat NFL stadium being built by the Oakland Raiders at Interstate 15 and Russell Road is on Thursday’s Las Vegas Stadium Authority board agenda.
The Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame will induct five members at 4 p.m. Friday at Orleans Arena. Honorees include boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., longtime golf instructor Butch Harmon and the Las Vegas Bowl.
The Las Vegas Bowl announced Wednesday that this year’s game will be played at 12:30 p.m. Dec. 16 at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Southern Nevada construction industry experts say whoever ends up building the planned 65,000-seat stadium for the Las Vegas Raiders will face a massive challenge to get it done by the opening of the 2020 NFL season.
The former Valley and Rancho High teacher and football, basketball, soccer and track coach who died in 1991 is being honored with induction into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame on June 2.
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