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SportsGolden Knights drop into series with Stars by losing regular-season finale
Thursday, April 18, 2024 The best-of-seven series between the Golden Knights and Stars is expected to start on Monday in Dallas before shifting back to T-Mobile Arena for Games 3 and 4 towards next weekend. ...
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Sports5 positions Raiders could address in the upcoming NFL Draft
Thursday, April 18, 2024 Here are the five positions the Raiders are likely to target with their current collection of eight picks in this month's NFL Draft.
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SportsRaiders’ quarterback race underway, with another candidate potentially coming
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 The identity of the Raiders’ starting quarterback next season might be more up in the air than it is for any other team in the league. O'Connell and Minshew are the two leading candidates for now. ...
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SportsGolden Knights closing in on likely first-round playoff series with Oilers
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 The Golden Knights moved one step closer to a best-of-seven series with the Oilers starting on the road this weekend or early next week with a 3-1 victory over the Blackhawks Tuesday night at T-Mobile Arena. ...
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SportsPrimed for the playoffs: Golden Knights flash form in comeback win
Sunday, April 14, 2024 The victory was the Golden Knights’ second straight, and perhaps more importantly, snapped a three-game losing streak against fellow Western Conference playoff teams ...
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SportsConor McGregor to return at UFC 303 in Las Vegas
Saturday, April 13, 2024 The fight between McGregor and Chandler, a former Bellator champion and UFC top contender, has been in the works for more than a year since the two ...
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SportsUFC 300: Max Holloway scores knockout of a lifetime over Justin Gaethje
Saturday, April 13, 2024 The landmark UFC 300 will be remembered for Holloway’s big moment. ...
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SportsWeekend wagers: Eight bets to make including on UFC 300, Masters
Saturday, April 13, 2024 College basketball has concluded, giving way to relaunch the Weekend Wagers column where there’s much work to be done. ...
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SportsLove him or hate him, Aljamain Sterling has etched his place in UFC history
Saturday, April 13, 2024 The UFC has marketed tonight’s pay-per-view card as boasting an unprecedented amount of talent and achievements across its 13 total fights. But few if any of the 25 other fighters on the card have built a legacy ...
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SportsLocal champion Sadibou Sy realized his fighting dreams, and wants more
Friday, April 12, 2024 Sy looks to add to his success with a new title in the 205-pound ranks when the division’s 2024 PFL season kicks off tonight at the Theater at Virgin Hotels. ...
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SportsWhy UFC 300 might be the most stacked top-to-bottom card in promotion history
Thursday, April 11, 2024 A slightly longer-than-usual wait has stretched between the UFC staging pay-per-view cards in its home venue, T-Mobile Arena, with four months having passed since UFC 296.
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GamingNCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of UConn vs. Purdue
Monday, April 8, 2024 Donovan Clingan stood out as the most impactful two-way player on the floor in the night cap of Saturday’s national semifinal games in Glendale, Ariz., just as ...
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GamingNCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of the Final Four
Saturday, April 6, 2024 An all-time evenly-matched Sweet 16 a week ago has given way to a historically lopsided Final Four by the betting odds. Connecticut and Purdue are favored by a combined 20.5 points over Alabama and NC State ...
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SportsThompson's time: Golden Knights goalie red hot as Vegas heads into playoffs
Thursday, April 4, 2024 The Golden Knights may need to start calling their goaltender “Air Logan.” Logan Thompson earned the nickname March 25 in St. Louis by going airborne to stop a penalty shot ...
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Golden Knights' new guys make big difference in 6th win in 7 games
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 Cassidy hinted that he felt the two healthy newcomers, Mantha and Hanifin, were closing the learning curve and the pair went on to show it in a decisive 6-3 victory over the Canucks at T-Mobile Arena. ...
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NoiseAlkaline Trio wraps up its ‘best tour’ with raucous stop at Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 Alkaline Trio were wildly engaging and all-around exceptional on the final night of a five-week run that Dan Andriano called, "the best tour we've ever done."
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NCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Sunday's games
Sunday, March 31, 2024 Perhaps no college basketball coaches have received more recent criticism for NCAA Tournament underperformance than Purdue’s Matt Painter and Tennessee’s Rick Barnes. ...
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GamingNCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Saturday's games
Saturday, March 30, 2024 Connecticut is an 8.5-point favorite against Illinois in a game the metrics unanimously agree pits the two best offensive teams in the nation. ...
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SportsWhy the Raiders spared no expense in signing defender Christian Wilkins
Thursday, March 28, 2024 Christian Wilkins had excelled with relative ease through every stop of his football career when he was younger, both from an individual and team perspective. The defensive tackle dominated in high school at Suffield Academy in Connecticut, racking up titles and accolades en route to becoming one of the top recruits in the country. He then contributed ...
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GamingNCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of the Sweet 16
Thursday, March 28, 2024 This year’s Sweet 16 is packed with top-tier matchups more than any other time in recent memory. ...
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GamingNCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Sunday's games
Sunday, March 24, 2024 Connecticut opened as high as +110 (i.e. risking $100 to win $110) to win the East, but are now as low as -170 (i.e. risking $170 to win $100). ...
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GamingNCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Saturday's games
Saturday, March 23, 2024 The odds on Oakland and North Carolina State facing off in one of the most intriguing round of 32 matchups would have been astronomical as recently as 10 days ago. That’s the position the Grizzlies and Wolfpack find themselves in ...
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SportsBetting the bracket: Analyzing the odds on the Final Four
Thursday, March 21, 2024 Brackets are due before the start of the NCAA Tournament, but the betting window stays open. Sportsbooks post game lines and reopen futures odds quicker than ever given sports betting’s soaring nationwide popularity. The ...
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GamingNCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of the East Region
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 For the second straight year, Connecticut is squarely in the middle of the toughest set of teams. ...
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GamingNCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of the South Region
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 The stylistic divide couldn’t be more stark between the top two seeded teams in the South and their next two challengers. ...
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SportsGolden Knights can't hold off late Lightning strikes in home loss
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 the Golden Knights reverted to their recent sloppy ways in a 5-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning Tuesday night at T-Mobile Arena, the second contest in a four-game home stand ...
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GamingNCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of the Midwest Region
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 Some of the earliest NCAA Tournament bracket projections, made at the outset of the season, had three teams that wound up in the Midwest Region as No. 1 seeds. ...
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GamingNCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of the West Region
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 Shootouts appropriately seem to be what will ultimately settle the wild-looking West Region this year. ...
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GamingNCAA Tournament opening odds: March Madness begins wildly
Sunday, March 17, 2024 The betting favorite prevailed in only a little more than a fourth of the conference tournaments — nine out of 34. ...
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SportsWeekend wagers: Ten bets to make including four on March Madness
Saturday, March 16, 2024 The wall-to-wall slate of games from the last three days diminishes leading up to the selection show this weekend, but there’s still a few places left to extract some value before ...
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SportsChristian Wilkins embodies the revitalized ‘Raider Way’
Friday, March 15, 2024 The Philadelphia Eagles became one of the best offensive teams in the league en route to a Super Bowl appearance two years ago but their success wasn’t immediate. The Eagles’ starting offense reportedly ...
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SportsAnnual barrage of college tournaments brings big-time ballin' to Las Vegas
Thursday, March 14, 2024 Las Vegas takes its annual place as the center of the college basketball world during conference tournament week from March 13 through March 16.
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SportsRaiders release four veterans including Garoppolo, Renfrow
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 The Raiders’ roster makeover continued with the official start of the 2024-2025 NFL league year Wednesday afternoon. New general manager Tom Telesco and now permanent coach Antonio Pierce moved ...
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SportsRaiders' free agency: Busy day brings Wilkins, Minshew to town; Jacobs headed to G.B.
Monday, March 11, 2024 The Raiders wasted no time putting their ample cap space to use to begin the NFL’s legal tampering period. Las Vegas agreed to contract terms with prized defensive tackle ...
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SportsWeekend wagers: Eight bets to make on seven sports
Saturday, March 9, 2024 Welcome back, March Madness. ...
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SportsWeekend wagers: Seven bets to make including on Pennzoil 400
Saturday, March 2, 2024 The Pennzoil 400 isn’t one of the auto racing organization’s biggest events of the year from a prestige standpoint, but it stands alone in the No. 1 spot from a betting perspective. ...
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GamingWeekend wagers: Seven bets to make on seven sports
Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024 I’m ecstatic to relaunch Weekend Wagers for a fifth consecutive year. Weekend Wagers is mostly about sports happening currently, and I’ve got bets lined up on five events happening ...
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SportsReport: Jimmy Garoppolo suspended two games to start next season
Friday, Feb. 16, 2024 The NFL will suspend Garoppolo for two games, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter, after he failed the league’s performance enhancing drug policy. ....
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SportsEven after NFL season, there are plenty of sports betting opportunities
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024 The most popular sports betting season of the year wrapped up on Super Bowl Sunday when the Kansas City Chiefs came back to beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 as 2-point underdogs at Allegiant Stadium. But the ...
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SportsSuper Bowl champs: Chiefs, Mahomes engineer a 25-22 overtime victory in Las Vegas
Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024 While the rest of his teammates celebrated in the corner of the end zone, Patrick Mahomes took off on a sprint down the home sideline until he could sprint no more. Mahomes collapsed in front of the Kansas City Chiefs’ bench, put his hands over his face and got showered ...
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SportsEveryone in Las Vegas should take pride in our Super Bowl moment
Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024 The Super Bowl is the final step in Las Vegas’ coronation as “the sports capital of the world,” as Raiders owner Mark Davis called the city, and it never takes place without the contributions of so many different people. ...
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GamingVegas pick'em: Super Bowl pick and perspective against the spread
Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024 The over 47.5 points is drawing as large of a share of tickets as Chiefs +2, and yet it hasn’t budged much at all. At least one large global sportsbook ...
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SportsRaiders flashed potential against both Super Bowl teams this year
Friday, Feb. 9, 2024 Nothing should give Raiders' fans more confidence than the way their team performed against the two sides facing off for the Lombardi Trophy at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Allegiant Stadium ...
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FeaturesWhat to watch as Las Vegas stages its first ever Super Bowl
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024 Las Vegas as a host city is a big talking point this year, but the second championship matchup between the Chiefs and 49ers in the last five seasons presents several of its own wrinkles.
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FeaturesPredicting the magic moments that will go down in history at Super Bowl 58
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024 Think defensive tackle William “The Refrigerator” Perry’s rushing touchdown for the Bears in 1985.
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FeaturesProp up the stars: Betting on all the biggest Super Bowl names
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024 Here are 10 of the biggest offensive names in the game, and a bet involving each of them spanning several different markets and sports books.
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SportsLuke Getsy officially named Raiders’ new offensive coordinator
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024 Having already introduced their fourth coach and fourth general manager since moving to Las Vegas four years ago, the Raiders have now announced their fourth offensive coordinator. Former Bears offensive coordinator ...
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SportsFrom laughs to tears: Why Super Bowl Opening Night might be worth your time
Monday, Feb. 5, 2024 Las Vegas gets a chance to put its own stamp on the annual theatre of absurdity tonight at Allegiant Stadium. Doors open at 3 p.m. with the Kansas City Chiefs scheduled for ...
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SportsChiefs could complete one of the best runs in NFL history with Super Bowl win
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 The Chiefs barely had time to brush off the confetti as they exited the field as Super Bowl champions following a win against the Eagles a year ago in Glendale, Ariz., before ...
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SportsChiefs, 49ers headed to Las Vegas for Super Bowl 58
Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024 A Super Bowl 54 rematch is set for Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas. For the second time in four years, the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers have won their ...
