The Raiders are back on the field Tuesday for their second week of organized team activities. Here are three position battles the team will have its eye on.
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The Raiders’ coaching staff has increased the energy at practice, and one rookie has stood out in the first week of organized team activities.
The star rookie for the Indiana Fever is off to an inconsistent start on the court in the WNBA, but her influence off it continues to be substantial.
The Aces defeated the Indiana Fever on Saturday at Michelob Ultra Arena in the first game in Las Vegas for No. 1 overall draft pick Caitlin Clark.
Some of the Golden Knights’ top prospects got NHL playing time this year. Their names might be called on more next season amid the uncertainty of the roster.
A venue constructed as a production facility allowed the UFC to thrive during the pandemic and has now become part of the Las Vegas sports landscape.
Some insist there is no such thing as perfect timing, that it’s not a trait you can teach, but rather that which you hear in your head.
When the announcement was made Sunday afternoon, he was wearing a dark blazer, pressed white shirt with an open collar, dark trousers and black-and-white crocheted Nikes that seemed a cross between skate shoes and bedroom slippers.
For the first time since the College Football Playoff rankings became a weekly occurrence to be debated and dissected, a concept that dates decades has shown its face among the top four teams: The power of Notre Dame, and how strong it could ultimately prove.
They went all out (or in) at the annual Las Vegas Bowl Ticket Kickoff Luncheon at Vinyl at the Hard Rock on Wednesday.
The Utes have discovered the benefits of playing in a power conference after jumping from the Mountain West to the Pac-12. “When recruits walk into our building, they know we mean business and that we’re in this to win,” said Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham.
Thirty-eight bowl games are on the schedule, and picking winners might be tougher than making Nick Saban smile. The Alabama coach is absolutely great at what he does, which is frown all the time and win a lot of football games.
If this is how its conference champion looks, the Mountain West isn’t close to average on a national scale. Fresno State was never in its 45-20 loss to Southern California in the Las Vegas Bowl on Saturday, never competitive at Sam Boyd Stadium against a No. 5 selection out of the Pac-12, never close to being on an even level of size, speed, strength, skill and execution.
The NFL agent was talking about the inevitability of comparison between draft choices past and present, about how scouts and general managers might look down on a wide receiver from one school because others from it had failed, about how they might downgrade a linebacker because his was a college system that doesn’t always transfer successfully to the pros.
A lot of Las Vegas movers and shakers wearing tailored blazers with open collars attended Wednesday’s Las Vegas Bowl kickoff luncheon at the Hard Rock Hotel, at a swanky restaurant called 35 Steaks + Martinis.
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The Aces defeated the Indiana Fever on Saturday at Michelob Ultra Arena in the first game in Las Vegas for No. 1 overall draft pick Caitlin Clark.
Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever are coming off their first win of the WNBA season, while the Aces need to rebound Saturday from their first loss.
Aces rookie Kate Martin and Caitlin Clark, the WNBA’s No. 1 overall draft pick by the Indiana Fever, are bonded by a trait that has aided both of their success.
Special teams coordinator Tom McMahon has been hard at work trying to figure out the best way to approach kickoffs this year given the NFL’s new rule changes.
