Golden Knights fans overflow with high expectations, indulged by the success of a team that didn’t exist until 2017 but has made the NHL playoffs every season.
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The former pound-for-pound king outworked, outboxed and thoroughly dominated Masayoshi Nakatani en route to a technical knockout win on Saturday at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.
Hired as Golden Knights coach in January of 2020, Pete DeBoer immediately believed he was to inherit a team capable of winning a Stanley Cup.
Sandpipers of Nevada, a Las Vegas-based swim club, is sending four athletes to the Olympic Games in Tokyo. After that showing, the club is getting attention from all over the nation.
The Raiders’ Carl Nassib becoming the first openly gay active player in the NFL is only the latest example of the Raiders leading the way in the NFL for tolerance and inclusiveness.
To thousands of transplanted Hawaiians who have made Las Vegas the so-called “Ninth Island,” football broadcaster Robert Kekaula was a big slice of paradise, home away from home.
Las Vegas bookmakers expect to see far fewer bets on the Stanley Cup Final after the Golden Knights were eliminated Thursday by the Canadiens.
Fans have questions about possible roster additions, the progress of second- and third-year players and the reaction to Carl Nassib announcing he is gay.
Gervonta Davis (24-0, 23 knockouts) will fight for the first time as a junior welterweight Saturday against Mario Barrios, who doubles as the tallest and heaviest opponent he’ll have faced to date.
The 5-foot, 7-inch Vasiliy Lomachenko (14-2, 10 KOs), will take on the 5-11 Masayoshi Nakatani (19-1, 13 KOs), in the main event of a Top Rank boxing card from Virgin Hotels.
Changes must occur after the Knights were eliminated by Montreal 3-2 in overtime of Game 6 in a Stanley Cup semifinal.
Top Rank announced on Thursday that Nico Ali Walsh, a Las Vegas native has signed with the promotional company and will make his professional debut.
Reigning World Cup champion France is the +350 favorite at the Westgate, followed by Italy at 6-1, but the Netherlands could be an enticing betting option.
Fixed-odds wagering on horse racing is on the verge of becoming a reality in New Jersey, a game-changing experiment that might have implications outside the Garden State.
Las Vegan Timothy Johnson, who will fight for the Bellator heavyweight belt on Friday, is a National Guardsman whose unit guarded the courthouse during the Derek Chauvin murder trial.