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The lights are on, the stands are full and high school football games are going on across the Las Vegas valley.
Did you hear the one about when Tony Sanchez as football coach at Bishop Gorman High was afraid of an opposing local team? No, there isn’t a punchline.
The last time coach Tony Sanchez brought a football team to Reno, he walked away with Bishop Gorman’s sixth consecutive high school state championship. So he knows what it’s like to win in Reno.
The 2007 New England Patriots are the only NFL team ever to go 16-0 in the regular season. What are the odds that the 2015 Patriots or Green Bay Packers can repeat the feat?
Being called a nice guy is sometimes a backhanded compliment, and by almost all accounts, Georgia football coach Mark Richt is a nice guy. He’s also cunning enough to survive in a cutthroat business. The problem is, he does not thrive in the biggest games. He wins a lot of games and has a pleasant personality, so he still has a job.
Hurricane Joaquin, once forecast to be a major threat to the East Coast, may still cause some havoc on the sports world this weekend.
Justin Tucker’s third field goal of the game, a 52-yarder with 5:08 remaining in overtime, gave the Baltimore Ravens their first win of the season, 23-20 over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday night.
UNLV’s annual football game against UNR is big enough by itself, with both teams desperate to own the Fremont Cannon and bragging rights for a year. There’s even more at stake this season.
TeamRankings.com, which uses a computer-based model, projects success for UNLV’s football team the remainder of the season.
Matt Youmans, Kelly Stewart and Golden Nugget sports book director Tony Miller preview the college football and NFL weekend.
With Ben Roethlisberger under center, the Pittsburgh Steelers would’ve been favored by 4 points over the rival Baltimore Ravens in today’s “Thursday Night Football” game at Heinz Field.
The Baltimore Ravens (0-3) will be looking for their first win this season when they visit Heinz Field tonight to face the Pittsburgh Steelers (2-1) for a Thursday Night Football showdown. Here’s how you can tune in.
When Fred Wilson wound up in a walking boot last week, that gave redshirt freshman cornerback Tim Hough his first career start. And did he ever take advantage of the opportunity.
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