The homestand many believe could determine where the Golden Knights find themselves come playoff time produced another win Monday, Vegas holding off the Capitals 3-2.
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Golden Knights goalie Marc-Andre Fleury has started 40 of 59 games even though his numbers have decreased dramatically since 10 or so supreme efforts to begin the season.
There has been no official update regarding the status of two nonconference UNLV football games for the 2020 season at Allegiant Stadium.
In his previous three games before Saturday, UNLV junior guard Amauri Hardy shot 6 of 24 while totaling 16 points. He scored a team-high 18 against Fresno State.
Peter DeBoer has coached his share of games in T-Mobile Arena, but he will stand behind the home bench for the first time Saturday when the Golden Knights play Carolina.
Choking in sports means you’re in position to win, which Shanahan and his San Francisco 49ers were before allowing it to slip away in a 31-20 loss to Kansas City.
The next four Super Bowl sites are Tampa, Los Angeles, Glendale and New Orleans. Las Vegas is sure to follow soon after, more intimate and fresh and walkable than any of those four.
The Las Vegas Raiders know that getting to the top of the AFC West means overcoming Kansas City and its electric quarterback.
Raheem Mostert was told more often than not that he wasn’t good enough, his road to Super Bowl LIV filled with more challenges than avoiding bull sharks.
While the 49ers and Chiefs meet in what many believe could challenge the game’s history for excitement and drama, the Super Bowl long ago became so much more than Xs and Os.
You won’t hear much about Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy this week in Miami, even though his name often comes up when discussing the Rooney Rule.
Derrick Jones, a kid from Chester, Pennsylvania, who played his college ball for UNLV, stood at his Miami Heat locker on Tuesday night and spoke about the death of Kobe Bryant.
Something as simple and yet condemning as a yellow flag last season led to Ford being traded from Kansas City to the 49ers, with the teams meeting Sunday in Super Bowl LIV.
While few in sports history owned Bryant’s cutthroat competitive nature as a player, fatherhood seemed to soften him.
The town that does everything big is going even more so come April 23-25, when the city will present a 72-hour caffeine buzz to equal or surpass any previous draft.
