When the Goodyear Blimp was spotted flying over Shadow Creek at the Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson golf match, little did Las Vegans realize they were casting eyes on the newest member of the College Football Hall of Fame.
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Playing college football’s national championship game in the San Francisco Bay Area isn’t quite the worst idea since the flying wedge. But Las Vegas would be a much more popular site.
A Las Vegas man named Dyer Lawrence has come up with a new system for a college football playoff that is so simple it’s elegant. There is only one criteria: wins and losses.
A look back at the people, places and things that made for a memorable sports year in Las Vegas.
Fresno State’s defense initially was ignored for the part it played in the Bulldogs’ 31-20 victory over Arizona State before an announced crowd of 37,146 in Saturday’s Las Vegas Bowl at Sam Boyd Stadium.
The Alliance of American Football held its inaugural quarterback draft at Luxor on Tuesday, the first step on the road to putting together a spring pro football league that will try to succeed where so many others have failed.
Katie Hnida, who made history when she played in the Las Vegas Bowl, is facing a mountain of medical bills after surviving a life-threatening reaction to antibiotics.
There’s not a long line for merchandise at Raider Image stores following the team’s 1-5 start under new coach Jon Gruden.
It was the longest of long weekends for Las Vegas sports fans. But there’s a long way to go to catch Cleveland.
Efficient Philip Rivers passed for 339 yards and two touchdowns while erratic Derek Carr threw another ill-timed interception as the Chargers defeated the Raiders 26-10 in the second installment of the Temporary Home Bowl at StubHub center.
On Tuesday, the Raiders joined forces with Taylor Elementary School in Henderson so students don’t have to go to school hungry and can brush their teeth.
Main topics of discussion at last week’s Las Vegas Bowl kickoff luncheon was the game moving up in stature and perhaps attracting a new college football opening weekend classic once Las Vegas Stadium is built.
As the final seconds of their inaugural season filtered through the hourglass and the clock around Flavor Flav’s neck, it occurred that the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces had lasted longer than the Las Vegas Posse of the Canadian Football League.
Dan Wetzel, a sports columnist at Yahoo, said it hardly seems equitable that a bunch of guys who never played the game should be the ones deciding who gets to wear the yellow blazers.
A crowd estimated at 300 attended a Tuesday memorial service for former UNLV football player Kenny Keys, including Rebels coach Tony Sanchez and the majority of his players.
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