Case Keefer
Assistant Sports Editor
Story Archive
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SportsRaiders’ season all but over after another blowout loss before bye week
Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025 Las Vegas goes into its bye week with a 2-5 record and virtually no hope of a turnaround in coach Pete Carroll’s first season. ...
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SportsGame day: Raiders will have their hands full at Chiefs
Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025 The Raiders and the Chiefs are always on each other’s minds despite the rivalry having been one-sided in recent years with the latter winning eight of 10 matchups ...
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SportsAnalysis: Now might be the last chance for UNLV to conquer its Boise State problem
Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025 The scarlet and gray are 0-8 against the Broncos in the Mountain West, the only current team in the conference that’s been unable the topple the Goliath at least once. ...
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SportsGolden Knights overwhelm Bruins offensively for first home win of the season
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025 Original Golden Knight William Karlsson scored twice in a row, notching both shorthanded and power-play goals, during a four-minute stretch of game time from the end of the second period to the start of the third. ...
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GamingVegas pick'em: NFL Week 7 winners against the spread
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025 Atlanta Falcons running back Bijan Robinson rushed his team to a big upset of the Buffalo Bills on Monday Night Football in Week 6, and himself to the top of some NFL statistical rankings and betting odds boards. ...
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SportsHow the Las Vegas Aces improbably achieved dynasty status
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025 In a year where the Las Vegas Aces strung together a historic 17 straight victories through their first playoff game, it only made sense that they would end the season in style and on another winning streak.
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SportsCollege football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 8
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025 The betting equation changes with game-by-game stakes now heightened, or lowered, by virtue of having a half-season’s worth of data on virtually every team. ...
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SportsMatchup with lowly Titans gives lowly Raiders chance to rebound
Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025 Las Vegas and Tennessee are both afterthoughts in the NFL right now. They’ve been two of the worst teams in the league so far. Las Vegas has lost three ...
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SportsKnights Watch: Five big questions as Vegas opens a new season with Stanley Cup ambitions
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025 Year Nine arrives for Las Vegas’ most beloved professional sports team with no signs of contentment or stagnation in sight from the franchise.
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GamingVegas pick'em: NFL Week 6 winners against the spread
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025 The last unbeaten and last winless future markets were both settled in Week 5. ....
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SportsCollege football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 7
Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025 The Hoosiers can put a stranglehold on another playoff spot just midway through the season Saturday night when they go on the road to face the Oregon Ducks in the biggest game of the week. ...
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FootballAnalysis: Raiders look unprepared under Carroll and pay the price at Colts
Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025 Carroll's Raiders are much worse than they were under the much-maligned tenures of previous coaches Antonio Pierce and Josh McDaniels. ...
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SportsAlex Pereira earns belt back via knockout to cap violent UFC 320
Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025 Pereira’s upset knockout victory was a fitting end to a night that was action-packed from the start. ...
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SportsUFC’s Khalil Rountree makes mark as Las Vegas’ heaviest homegrown hitter
Friday, Oct. 3, 2025 Rountree (14-6 MMA, 10-6 UFC) could put the finishing touches on his case for a second title shot when he fights former champion Jiri Prochazka (31-5-1 MMA, 5-2 UFC) on the pay-per-view portion of UFC 320 Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena. ...
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Sports'The Machine' rolls on: Local champion goes for 14th straight win at UFC 320
Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025 A video of Merab “The Machine” Dvalishvili swimming the entire length of Circa’s longest pool at Stadium Swim underwater without taking a breath—and still looking refreshed while flexing at the end—went viral before his last fight.
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SportsVegas pick'em: NFL Week 5 winners against the spread
Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025 In a betting market as efficient as the NFL, such endgame decisions will present themselves every week and could flip either way. It’s a prerequisite to get used to them, and battle through. ...
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SportsCollege football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 6
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 The Crimson Tide opened as high as a 13.5-point favorite for the highly anticipated rematch with Vanderbilt, but early action has pushed the spread down to as low as -10.5.
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SportsRaiders unravel against Bears for third straight defeat
Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025 After getting bullied two weeks ago against the Chargers and blown out last week against the Commanders, the Raiders did most of the damage to themselves against the Bears Sunday afternoon at Allegiant Stadium. ...
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SportsRaiders hosting Bears looking to break two-game losing skid
Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025 The first interview Pete Carroll took for an NFL head-coaching vacancy earlier this year came with the Chicago Bears. He didn’t travel to Las Vegas to meet ...
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GamingVegas pick'em: NFL Week 4 winners against the spread
Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025 The bar for worst beat of the season has been set, and something massive would have to occur to clear it. ...
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SportsThe best championship bets to make in all four major professional sports
Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025 The busiest stretch of the sports calendar is quickly approaching. October is the only month of the year when all four of the country’s biggest major professional sports are in action, so now is the time to prepare accordingly from a betting perspective.
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SportsCollege football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 5
Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025 Oregon has been unstoppable in a 4-0 straight-up start to the season with a +166 point differential, sending its futures back to the top of the betting board. ....
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Sports‘No good today:’ Raiders get blown out at Commanders
Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025 Las Vegas has now lost two games in the last six days, both of them wholly uncompetitive.
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SportsFamily and football: Jonah Laulu clicking for hometown Raiders and global relatives
Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025 Jonah Laulu and his pass-rushing prowess has been one of the primary reasons for the success of the Raiders' defensive line. ...
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SportsLas Vegas Aces are on a historic high with WNBA playoffs underway
Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025 The Las Vegas Aces ended the 2025 WNBA regular season in the same fashion they’ve spent the last month—by smashing records.
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SportsCollege football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 4
Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025 A definitive Big 12 favorite will emerge after Saturday morning when the Utes host the Red Raiders as 3.5-point favorites. ...
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SportsGeno Smith, Raiders go backward in sloppy home-opening loss to Chargers
Monday, Sept. 15, 2025 Geno Smith put up 180 passing yards with no touchdowns and three interceptions while completing 24 of 43 passing attempts in a game where the Silver and Black never led.
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SportsIntensity dialed up in Raiders-Chargers rivalry with early control of division on the line
Monday, Sept. 15, 2025 Las Vegas hasn’t sat alone in first place of the AFC West at any point since Week 1 of the 2023 season. That will change late tonight if the Raiders can upset the Los Angeles Chargers ...
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SportsTerence Crawford dismantles Canelo Alvarez to capture his historic aim
Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025 Crawford became the first boxer in history to capture the undisputed championship in a third weight class by upsetting fan favorite Saul “Canelo” Alvarez via unanimous decision (116-112, 115-113, 115-113). ...
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SportsA grand premiere: Dana White goes big in his debut as a boxing promoter
Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025 Tonight at Allegiant Stadium is when the 56-year-old UFC president’s vision for the combat sport he grew up watching finally gets under way. ...
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Facing Canelo Álvarez is the biggest fight of Terence Crawford’s career in more ways than one
Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025 Canelo Álvarez has drawn criticism for facing a weak slate of opponents during his current six-fight winning streak and not looking as inspired in the ring.
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SportsVegas pick'em: NFL Week 2 winners against the spread
Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025 Handicapping Week 2 is annually all about interpreting how to interpret one data point with a full offseason worth of preparation. ...
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SportsCollege football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 3
Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025 South Florida is now co-favorites to earn the Group of Five’s automatic bid into the College Football Playoff with American Athletic Conference rival Tulane at odds of +450 (i.e. risking $100 to win $450). ....
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Geno Smith gets Raiders off to a big start by beating Patriots in opener
Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025 The 13-year veteran had one of the best passing games in the six years since the Raiders moved to Las Vegas in leading the silver and black to a 20-13 victory on the road over the New England Patriots. ...
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SportsRaiders' coach Pete Carroll has win-now mentality
Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025 Pete Carroll goes back to where he found his initial success as an NFL head coach in his first game leading the Las Vegas Raiders.
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SportsStar of the show: Anthony Colandrea is a perfect match as UNLV’s quarterback
Friday, Sept. 5, 2025 Dan Mullen’s go-to phrase ever since he was introduced as UNLV’s coach last December has been some version of vowing that his team will become the best show in town.
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SportsRaiders enter a new era with Carroll, Brady forging the path
Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025 Pete Carroll is the architect of the transformation. The future Hall of Famer will be the oldest coach in NFL history by the time of the Raiders’ second game this season when he turns 74 years old, but he hasn’t let age slow his zest.
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GamingVegas pick'em: NFL Week 1 winners against the spread
Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025 The Chiefs are a modest -120 to win the AFC West, but they’ve claimed the crown nine straight times and left too much scar tissue on those who have dared bet against them before.
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SportsThese 4 players are breakout candidates for the Raiders
Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025 Edge rusher might be the biggest position of strength on the Raiders’ roster, at least defensively, despite the two starters both being overlooked to start their NFL careers.
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SportsConcern meter: Assessing the situation at Raiders' trouble spots
Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025 The positional concerns for Las Vegas coming into training camp are still present going into its Sept. 7 opener at the New England Patriots. ...
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SportsAnalysis: Don’t write off UNLV football just yet
Friday, Aug. 29, 2025 The matchup with the Bearkats should provide a truer sense of whether Dan Mullen can maintain the momentum built by his predecessor, Barry Odom, like the preseason sentiment projected. ...
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SportsA’ja Wilson has reclaimed her standing as the best player in the world and deserves another MVP award
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025 Wilson has been outstanding even for her world-class standards during a three-week stretch that has turned the Aces’ season around. The 29-year-old has excelled in every area to lift the Aces from potentially missing the playoffs to fighting for home-court advantage in the first round as the regular season winds down.
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SportsCollege football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of every Week 1 game
Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025 A transfer quarterback is the best bet to win the Heisman Trophy ahead of Week 1 of the season. ....
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SportsCollege football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of every Week 0 game
Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025 Find my point-spread handicap of Idaho State at UNLV as well as the other four games going down today. ...
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SportsFive reasons to believe UNLV football’s ascent has only just begun
Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025 Here are five reasons to believe in UNLV going into its season opener 1 p.m. Saturday against Idaho State at Allegiant Stadium ...
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SportsLas Vegas native Kyu Blu Kelly has been Raiders’ biggest training camp riser
Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025 In the Raiders’ lone home preseason game of the year against the 49ers on Saturday, Kelly made the first start of his professional career. And it’s unlikely to be the last. ...
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SportsRaiders take 'a good step forward' but lose preseason game in closing seconds
Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025 The Las Vegas Raiders inched closer towards looking regular-season ready Saturday afternoon at Allegiant Stadium despite losing to the San Francisco 49ers 22-19 in their second of three exhibition contests this year. ...
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SportsRaiders' Ashton Jeanty could use a breakout in Allegiant Stadium preseason debut
Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025 While coach Pete Carroll has not explicitly announced he would play his staters, he strongly hinted that everyone could see the field for the second straight week. ...
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SportsCollege football by the odds: Handicapping every ACC team's win total
Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025 The league now features the biggest favorite to win a conference title among the four power conferences, and it’s an awfully familiar name. ...
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Analysis: UNLV football’s conference title drought will soon end
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025 The 53-year-old Mullen, who’s previously helmed Mississippi State and Florida, is set up for unprecedented success with the Scarlet and Gray. ...
