Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals was televised live and in prime time on NBC audience. It was first time the Golden Knights skated in front of a national TV audience.
Ron Kantowski
Former sports columnist
They don’t throw chickens onto the ice at the RDV Sportsplex in Maitland, Florida, where Golden Knights forward Ryan Carpenter skated growing up. Not yet anyway.
Before making his Xfinity Series debut at Richmond Raceway in Virginia, teenager Noah Gragson predicted he was in for “a rude awakening.” He finished second.
The temperature is expected to rise into the 90s when the Golden Knights and San Jose Sharks finally get around to dropping the puck in their Western Conference semifinal series at T-Mobile Arena, but it should still be cool inside.
Green Valley High’s Tyrell Crosby is one of the top offensive tackles in the NFL draft, but has interests outside of football.
Some hockey pundits are billing the Knights vs. San Jose Sharks Western Conference semifinal series as speed vs. speed, but Eddie Olczyk isn’t one of them.
Allen Iverson, who once delivered an iconic rant about practice when he was with the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, can relate to what has been going on with the Golden Knights.
The 51s and El Paso Chihuahuas were tied 5-5 after nine innings, setting the stage for implementation of a new minor league baseball rule in which a runner is placed on second base to begin an extra inning. The 51s’ runner immediately got picked off.
New hockey fan Dee Dravnieks traveled 9,538 miles from Perth, Australia, to spend most of the past three weeks with her favorite team, the Golden Knights.
Las Vegan Spencer Gallagher finished a career-high fifth in last week’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Bristol, Tennessee, adding to his season-long string of solid results.
A lot of people were referring to the Golden Knights’ 1-0 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday at T-Mobile Arena as the first playoff game of the four major sports to be played in Las Vegas. Which isn’t true.
One of the coolest stories about the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs is about a teenager who probably won’t get anywhere as close to the ice as the Zamboni drivers at T-Mobile Arena and Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Seven-time Indy 500 winning crew chief George Bignotti, who spent most of his retirement in Las Vegas before he died in 2013 at age 97, will be inducted into the West Coast Stock Hall of Fame on June 21.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman returned to Las Vegas to break some news on Wednesday, or at least to confirm the NHL Awards would be returning to Las Vegas for the 10th time on June 20.
The chance of a fight breaking out at a Knights game was almost nonexistent during the 2017-18 season as fisticuffs continued to decline in the NHL.
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