UNLV quarterback Jayden Maiava deserves the chance to find better football and financial situations through the transfer portal, where the Rebels also have prospered.
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Sam Gordon

Sam Gordon is a sports columnist and enterprise reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covering a variety of topics and the Las Vegas sports scene.
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Review-Journal columnist and features writer Sam Gordon found a host of interesting subjects in 2023, including boxer Canelo Alvarez and NBA star LeBron James.
UNLV freshman quarterback Jayden Maiava capped his season with two straight games of growing pains, including those he experienced Tuesday in a loss to Kansas.
Win or lose against Kansas on Tuesday in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl, UNLV has recalibrated its standing in college football under first-year coach Barry Odom.
No wonder LeBron James wants to own an NBA franchise in Las Vegas. It’s a city he personifies in personality and play as he seeks the In-Season Tournament title.
UNLV junior Ricky White deserves to be one of the nine All-American wideouts this season, fitting in rightfully alongside big names from elite programs.
If it’s apparent from the press box that Raiders coaches have no confidence in Aidan O’Connell, then surely the rookie quarterback can see it from the sideline.
The soft scheduling that started Antonio Pierce’s tenure allowed the Raiders to build confidence with two straight wins. But they will be tested Sunday in Miami.
The Raiders are mirroring the enthusiasm and toughness of their energetic, beloved new leader, who presided over a victory against the New York Jets on Sunday.
It was an egregious, reprehensible, deplorable, humiliating, inconceivable, embarrassing loss for UNLV’s once-proud men’s basketball program. But it’s only one loss.
Freed from the ineptitude of Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler, the Raiders’ new regime would be best suited to bottom out and acquire as much draft capital as possible.
Raiders quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo can’t stay healthy and looks washed up, as evidenced by Monday night’s pitiful performance against the Detroit Lions.
At 27, Aces superstar A’ja Wilson is already among Sin City’s greatest all-time athletes — armed with two WNBA championships and a pair of MVPs to show for it.
If the Raiders are to regain their national relevance, Josh McDaniels won’t be steering their ship. The waters he’s navigating are too deep for him to handle.
Las Vegas loves a winner and the Aces are exactly that, transforming in five years from the WNBA’s perennial cellar dweller in San Antonio into a budding dynasty in the desert.