A league forever immersed in hypocrisy when it came to sports gaming is expected to award the 2024 Super Bowl to Las Vegas on Wednesday.
Ed Graney
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Ed Graney came to the Review-Journal in May of 2006 as its lead sports columnist. He has covered all major sporting events, including Super Bowls to NBA championships to every Final Four since 1995. Graney also covered the Olympic Games in Beijing (2008) and London (2012). A graduate of San Diego State University, he is a five-time Nevada Sportswriter of the Year and past winner of Associated Press Sports Editors Top 10 for columns. He and wife Bonnie have two children, a son (Tristan) and daughter (Bridget).
Third-year wide receiver Hunter Renfrow offered some semblance of competence for the Raiders in their loss to the Chiefs.
In a game Kansas City led 35-0 and won 48-9, thoughts of blowing up the entire Raiders mess and starting over took center stage.
The Raiders were awful, abysmal, abominable, atrocious. So much for Rich Bisaccia’s process this week. The Raiders were unprepared and overmatched.
Rich Bisaccia has made a habit of talking process, of how important those meetings and practices are leading up to a game, when wins and losses are all that matters.
A week doesn’t pass without speculation that Reilly Smith’s days in Las Vegas are numbered. The Golden Knights right wing counts $5 million annually against the salary cap.
Creek Young is 21 and the Resistol Rookie of the Year, having qualified for his first National Finals Rodeo at Thomas Mack Center.
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney was in town for, among other things, to watch the Raiders lose to the Washington Football Team 17-15.
How the Raiders performed in a last-second 17-15 defeat, dropping their record to 6-6.
The Raiders are 6-0 when Derek Carr throws for at least 300 yards and have averaged 32 points in those games. They are 0-5 when he doesn’t.
What if Mike Tomlin, Nick Saban, Tony Dungy, Jim Harbaugh, Sean McVay, Pete Carroll or Dabo Swinney were to be the next coach of the Raiders? Or will it be Rich Bisaccia?
UCLA — ranked second nationally but not the country’s second-best team right now — had no problem whipping the Rebels 73-51.
A 36-33 overtime victory by the Raiders on Thanksgiving is the latest example of how balanced the 32-team league is this year.
Quarterback Derek Carr helps Raiders snap three-game losing streak by throwing for 373 yards and a touchdown.
