It has been 44 years since Hall of Fame guard Tom Mack was called for illegal procedure with the Rams perched about a foot from the Minnesota Vikings’ end zone in the 1974 NFC Championship Game. He says he still hasn’t moved.
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UNLV’s cheerleaders and Rebel Girls & Company dance team were absent from the Thomas Mack Center Saturday where the Rebels routed San Jose State. But they had a good excuse. They were at Disneyworld winning national championships.
CSN’s season-opening tournament has been renamed the Manny Guerra Memorial Coyote Border Battle in honor of the longtime major league scout from Las Vegas.
The Continental Cup at Orleans Arena starts Thursday and will attract Olympians and world champions as well as thousands of curling enthusiasts.
Raiders break ground on practice headquarters facility behind M Resort — in Henderson, of course.
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.
Longtime Las Vegan Rick Down, who died at home Saturday at age 68, spent 17 seasons as a major league hitting coach.
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.
At a school such as Johns Hopkins, it is impossible to study medicine and set ball screens at the same time. This even holds true for the big men on the Baltimore campus who carry lacrosse sticks.
The first word that comes to mind when discussing Hall of Fame boxing writer Royce Feour was authenticity. He had bunches of it.
A look back at the people, places and things that made for a memorable sports year in Las Vegas.
Matt Polster, who played high school soccer for Palo Verde and Major League Soccer with the Chicago Fire, is now trying out for Rangers Football Club, a renowned Scottish side based in Glasgow.
With baseball’s Winter Meetings in Las Vegas last week, it seemed the right time to ask about territorial rights and crazy TV blackouts.
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.
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