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Sports Betting Spotlight: NFL Week 3

Matt Youmans, Kelly Stewart and Golden Nugget sports book director Tony Miller preview the college football and NFL weekend:

 
Texas football coach suspected of telling players to attack ref loses job

The assistant San Antonio high school football coach thought to have ordered his players to blindside a referee during a game no longer works for the Texas school district that employed him, a school official told an investigation panel on Thursday.

Take dysfunctional Giants to deliver win, cover vs. Redskins

The only team in NFL history to blow double-digit fourth-quarter leads in their first two games, the New York Giants will try to avoid falling to 0-3 today against a Washington Redskins squad coming off an upset of the St. Louis Rams.

Rebels dogged by FCS letdowns

Coaches like to say they will take an ugly victory over a pretty loss, but sometimes even a win can feel like a defeat.

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Power 5 becoming even more dominant

Do you know that saying about being a symptom of something much worse? Yeah. That’s what 2-16 is. That’s what being outscored by an average of 39-18 in those football games is. That’s the reality facing Mountain West teams and all others existing within the insignificant and dismal reality of a non-Power 5 conference today.

Las Vegas Bowl success relies on ratings

They went all out (or in) at the annual Las Vegas Bowl Ticket Kickoff Luncheon at Vinyl at the Hard Rock on Wednesday.

 
Minnesota Vikings mascot Ragnar holding out for $20,000 a game

Ragnar the Viking — the Minnesota Vikings’ beloved bearded, motorcycle-riding unofficial mascot — missed his first home game since 1994 on Sunday after the team balked at his demand for a huge raise.

 
Texas football coach reportedly admitted he told players to tackle ref

An assistant Texas high school football coach ordered his players to blindside a football official during a game as payback for what the team perceived to be the official’s use of racist language, TV sports network ESPN reported on Wednesday.

Rebels not overlooking FCS Idaho State

If UNLV fans have learned anything in recent years, it’s not to sleep on a Football Championship Subdivision team. And there are some eye-opening reasons to pay attention to this weekend’s opponent, Idaho State.

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