After a week filled with distractions, what the Raiders needed most was a return to normalcy, and a return to .500 in the standings. What they got instead was their fourth straight loss.
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Exactly 11 days after receiving a heart transplant, Brienna Love of Las Vegas left Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City not on a gurney or in a wheelchair, but walking, under her own power.
There are myriad reasons the first regular-season home game in Golden Knights history, played Tuesday at T-Mobile Arena before a sellout crowd torn between reflection and acclamation, still will be considered monumental years from now.
In 1999, then-Las Vegas Mayor Goodman went to New York City to meet with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman to discuss the possibility of Las Vegas getting a team one day. Some day. When hell, or Henderson, froze over. But some day.
The old ballplayer still sounded distraught after coming to the aid of Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting victims last Sunday.
NHL preseason games, two minor league franchises indoctrinate local fans, pave way for arrival of Vegas Golden Knights.
Her father was UNLV’s quarterback after Randall Cunningham, so perhaps it wasn’t a big surprise how Savannah Stallworth reacted after deadly shots rang out at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival that left 58 dead and more than 500 injured.
There will be electricity when the puck is dropped for the Vegas Golden Knights’ home opener, but that was going to occur before the Route 91 concert massacre. Now there also will be emotion that those in the nosebleed sections will feel.
Hockey express buses are a great deal, but there’s an even cheaper parking alternative at Golden Knights games if you know where to look.
Kyle Busch of Las Vegas won a NASCAR race in New Hampshire on Sunday, and there were no protests during the national anthem, neither of which should come as a big surprise.
Rap and hip-hop mogul Percy “Master P” Miller envisions a basketball league in which men and women will compete against each other.
Oakland needs a new football stadium. Oakland is not getting a new football stadium, because Oakland also needs things such as cops and roads. This is why Las Vegas will be getting Oakland’s football team.
The Raiders used big plays to dominate the Jets Sunday en route to a 45-20 victory that rekindled memories of the old Oakland A’s.
The International Tennis Federation is to women’s tennis what the Pacific Coast League is to major league baseball, minus the peanuts and Cracker Jack.
Longtime Las Vegan Dan Currie, who played outside linebacker for Vince Lombardi’s championship teams in Green Bay during the 1960s and was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, died Monday. He was 82.