Case Keefer
Assistant Sports Editor
Story Archive
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SportsAnalysis: How ‘the Patriot Way’ could help the Raiders fix their o-line
Wednesday, July 27, 2022 In 2014 and 2015, the New England Patriots’ offensive line was reeling. The Patriots ended up winning the Super Bowl to cap the 2014 season anyway, but early in the year, quarterback Tom Brady struggled so badly behind lax protection that some wondered if ...
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FootballHonor Roll: Five standouts from Raiders’ 1st week of practices
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 The Las Vegas Raiders have wrapped up their first week of training camp practices at their team headquarters as Monday was scheduled as an off day for the players. Pads come on for the first time ...
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SportsRaiders guard Denzelle Good retires after ACL tear last season
Monday, July 25, 2022 Las Vegas Raiders guard Denzelle Good has retired from football less than a week after the start of training camp, the team announced Monday afternoon. The 31-year-old out of Division II school Mars Hill spent ...
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SportsAnalysis: Las Vegas proved perfect place for preseason 'El Clàsico'
Sunday, July 24, 2022 The biggest rivalry in soccer came to Las Vegas’ biggest venue, and more than conquered. ...
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SportsWeekend wagers: Mixing in Heisman, NFL MVP bets with four other sports
Saturday, July 23, 2022 A couple cursory glances at the betting market this week shows football is already in full swing, at least at local sports books. Future odds are moving quickly in almost every category, so quickly that it feels like time to start placing some football bets in the Weekend Wagers. ...
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SportsMcDaniels settled and ‘all about the details’ as Raiders open practice
Friday, July 22, 2022 McDaniels is fitting in just fine less than six months since moving to Las Vegas, and now, the 46-year-old is fully in his element with the Raiders opening training camp practice Thursday at their Henderson headquarters. The Raiders can’t put on pads until next week under NFL rules, but a 90-minute session ...
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SportsFour players battling to be the third receiver for Raiders
Thursday, July 21, 2022 After signing superstar Davante Adams this offseason, the Raiders have one of the best pass-catching groups in the NFL. That’s the consensus, anyway, with Adams, the longtime Green Bay Packer, coming to Las Vegas and joining a pair of other Pro Bowlers in slot receiver Hunter Renfrow and ...
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Take Five: What to watch as the Raiders report to training camp
Wednesday, July 20, 2022 There’s no shortage of work to be done at the team’s Henderson headquarters, with McDaniels installing his own new offense, with help from new offensive ...
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SportsRaiders add three defensive starters to injured list on eve of training camp
Tuesday, July 19, 2022 Three presumed starters were added to the physically unable perform list in cornerback Trayvon Mullen, defensive tackle Johnathan Hankins and defensive tackle Bilal Nichols. None of them ...
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SportsRaiders’ rookies arrive at training camp lightly regarded but highly capable
Monday, July 18, 2022 The Raiders’ rookies report to training camp this morning, and it’s unlikely there will be anyone standing outside the gates of the team’s Henderson headquarters hoping to catch a glimpse of them arriving. This year’s active class of 18 youthful newcomers — consisting of six players taken in ...
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SportsRaiders put Carr in position to succeed heading into training camp
Saturday, July 16, 2022 After a topsy-turvy tenure since being selected by the Raiders in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft, Carr now has almost everything he could ever ask for entering his ninth year ...
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Sports'Biggest match in soccer': World-class clubs to land in Allegiant Stadium
Thursday, July 14, 2022 Spanish soccer clubs Real Madrid and Barcelona will meet in a friendly, or exhibition, match July 23 at Allegiant Stadium, but such terminology shouldn’t fool anyone. It’s never entirely affable when the two archrivals meet, and there’s always something at stake.
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RaidersSandra Douglass Morgan trailblazes as Raiders’ new team president
Thursday, July 7, 2022 The Raiders have named their third president in the three years since relocating to Las Vegas. Sandra Douglass Morgan, who served as chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board from 2019-2021, will step into the role, team owner Mark Davis announced Thursday afternoon in a news conference at ...
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Ready for the Raiders: Projecting the 53-man roster with training camp nearing
Monday, July 4, 2022 Two weeks remain before all 90 players on the Las Vegas Raiders’ current at-capacity roster begin to show up at the team’s Henderson headquarters for training camp. ...
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SportsFive for Fighting: What to watch at UFC 276 to cap International Fight Week
Thursday, June 30, 2022 In the 10 years since the inception of the UFC’s International Fight Week, held annually around the Fourth of July in Las Vegas, the event has hosted some of the biggest bouts in mixed martial arts history.
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SportsRaiders give $1 million to Uvalde school district
Thursday, June 16, 2022 The Las Vegas Raiders had a personal connection to the mass shooting that occurred last month at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, one that helped compel the organization to ...
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SportsShuffle up and deal: 5 storylines for this year's World Series of Poker
Thursday, June 2, 2022 For the first time since 2019, the World Series of Poker has returned to its traditional spot on the calendar, with a full summer of tournaments ahead. The planned 2020 event was scrapped and replaced by a shorter online series amid worldwide COVID-19 lockdowns. Live tournaments returned in 2021, but they were ...
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SportsReport: Kaepernick lands workout with Raiders
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 The Raiders already have four quarterbacks on their roster, and now they’re trying out a fifth. Colin Kaepernick will work out for the team this week according to a tweet from ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The UNR graduate has not played football since 2016, when he controversially began kneeling during the national anthem to ...
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Raiders send receiver Bryan Edwards to Falcons for draft pick
Friday, May 13, 2022 Third-year receiver Bryan Edwards is the latest player on the way out, as general manager Dave Ziegler agreed to trade him to the Atlanta Falcons in exchange for ...
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SportsInflection points: Four key games on the Raiders' schedule next season
Friday, May 13, 2022 With parity an ever-defining characteristic of the NFL, most teams’ seasons come down to a few inflection points on the regular-season schedule. After the NFL revealed next season’s full schedule last night, let’s try to identify those inflection points for ...
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FootballNFL schedule release: Raiders open at Chargers, close vs. Chiefs
Thursday, May 12, 2022 The Las Vegas Raiders will open next season at 1:25 p.m. on Sunday, September 11, in Los Angeles at SoFi Stadium against the Chargers, the NFL revealed Thursday afternoon. ...
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SportsDon't rush to judge the Raiders' backfield
Thursday, May 12, 2022 Early last season, Josh Jacobs went to the Raiders’ coaching staff with a request. The star running back was coming off a Pro Bowl season but wanted to see more of fellow running back Kenyan Drake, whom he thought was being underutilized.
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SportsWeekend wagers: More ways to bet the Kentucky Derby
Saturday, May 7, 2022 For the first time in three years, Nevada race and sports books will be permitted to offer a full parimutuel betting menu for the Kentucky Derby. The state and Churchill Downs finally signed an agreement to end a long-time dispute over ...
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SportsInterim President Ventrelle says he was fired from Raiders
Friday, May 6, 2022 The Raiders are without a team president for the second time in less than a year. Dan Ventrelle “is no longer with the Raiders organization,” according to team owner ...
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SportsHammon brings new style to Aces but maintains championship aspirations
Thursday, May 5, 2022 One of the most celebrated moments of Becky Hammon’s coaching career came in 2015, when she led the San Antonio Spurs to an NBA ...
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SportsNew guys: Meet the five players the Raiders selected to cap NFL Draft
Saturday, April 30, 2022 The defending national champion Georgia Bulldogs have dominated the 2022 NFL Draft, and the Las Vegas Raiders contributed to it with their second pick of the event. ....
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SportsRaiders get Parham, extra pick on NFL Draft's 2nd day
Friday, April 29, 2022 The newest Raider may have lost count of how many times he switched positions during his college football career. Dylan Parham bounced around three different spots during his freshman year at University of ...
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0-for-3: Raiders decline fifth-year options on Jacobs, Ferrell and Abram
Friday, April 29, 2022 So much for waiting until Monday with one of the biggest remaining decisions of the Raiders’ offseason. Coach Josh McDaniels intimated waiting until the deadline was the team’s ...
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NoiseFive Thoughts: Deftones at the Chelsea in Las Vegas (April 22)
Thursday, April 28, 2022 Capacity falls far short of demand—fans are spread across three floors at the Cosmopolitan, desperately asking for extras.
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SportsTop of the board: Ten of the most-hyped prospects coming into the 2022 NFL Draft
Thursday, April 28, 2022 There might be less clarity on how the first handful of picks in the 2022 NFL Draft will go than ever before.
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A&EHow the NFL Draft became a major spectator event—and will grow even bigger in Las Vegas
Thursday, April 28, 2022 No tickets are sold—the draft is free to attend—so it’s difficult to project exact numbers, but it's expected that 300,000 visitors will come to town for the draft, not including locals.
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FeaturesHere’s how the Las Vegas Raiders might utilize their diminished draft capital
Thursday, April 28, 2022 Las Vegas is set at the top of its roster, including at the glamour positions, but still has a lot of holes elsewhere.
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GM welcomes chance to turn around Raiders' draft fortunes
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 Barring a trade up the draft board, Ziegler won’t make his first pick as a general manager until late in the third round where the Raiders hold the 86th overall selection. ...
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SportsGolden Knights' playoff push coming down to the wire
Thursday, April 21, 2022 One by one, they’ve almost all returned over the last month. A small army of Vegas Golden Knights’ key players that missed large parts of the second half of the year—forward ...
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SportsSports agency readies Las Vegas athletes for NFL Draft and beyond
Thursday, April 14, 2022 Mark Henness hired outside help from sports-performance trainers eight years ago when one of his sons, Kieren Henness, wasn’t getting on the field as much as he had hoped in his junior football season at Coronado High. Within six months of specialized workouts and nutritional guidance, Kieren had transformed his body and his ...
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Derek Carr reiterates he 'only wanted to be a Raider' after extension
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 The 31-year-old out of Fresno State already holds almost all of the franchise’s passing records after eight seasons in silver and black and will now have the chance to pad his lead. ...
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SportsNew-look nature of Raiders’ defense taking shape with new coordinator
Monday, April 11, 2022 Maxx Crosby first met current Raiders defensive coordinator Patrick Graham when he was a hopeful preparing for the 2019 NFL ...
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SportsWeekend wagers: Seven bets to make, including on UFC 273, Masters
Saturday, April 9, 2022 The NCAA Tournament disappointingly departs, but a big time in the sports calendar drives on. ...
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SportsSix futures bets to build around as Major League Baseball season begins
Thursday, April 7, 2022 Betting baseball games every day can quickly turn into a grind, but building portfolios out of the sport’s many future markets throughout the season ...
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A&EFirst look: Construction has begun for NFL Draft on Las Vegas Strip
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 The 2022 NFL Draft theater, including the main stage where commissioner Roger Goddell will announce picks, is officially under construction at Caesars Forum. ....
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SportsBuddy system: Raiders open free agency by reuniting former college teammates Carr, Adams
Thursday, March 24, 2022 Derek Carr and Davante Adams ended their decorated collegiate careers in disappointing fashion when USC blew out their Fresno State team at the 2013 Las Vegas Bowl.
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SportsNCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of the Sweet 16
Thursday, March 24, 2022 Gonzaga big man Drew Timme rescued his No. 1 overall seeded team from a potential upset last round and saw his odds to win the NCAA Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player plummet as a result. Timme delivered a fiery speech to his teammates at halftime with Gonzaga facing a 10-point deficit to No. 9 seed Memphis, and then scored 21 of ...
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FootballDavante Adams’ reasons for coming to the Raiders ran deep
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 The drive from Davante Adams’ hometown of East Palo Alto, Calif., to Green Bay, Wisc., takes 35 hours not including stops. Adams’ father doesn’t fly so he knows the route well according to the superstar wide receiver. That was something on the 29-year-old’s mind as he mulled his future the last couple months after eight seasons with the Green Bay Packers. So was ...
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Analysis: Trading for Davante Adams shows the Raiders are all-in
Sunday, March 20, 2022 Raiders owner Mark Davis made it clear in January that no such rebuild interested him. Thursday’s blockbuster trade shipping their top two picks in April’s NFL Draft for the Packers’ perennial All-Pro receiver, Davante Adams, showed nothing has changed. ...
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SportsRaiders trade top two draft picks for superstar receiver Davante Adams
Thursday, March 17, 2022 Many Raiders’ fans wildest dream all offseason was the team finding a way to acquire All-Pro wide receiver Davante Adams. Las Vegas reportedly pulled it off on Thursday ...
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FeaturesSix teams to target for your NCAA Tournament betting
Thursday, March 17, 2022 One pick each among No. 1 through No. 6 seeds.
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SportsLas Vegas product Julian Strawther looks to lead top-seeded Gonzaga to a national title
Thursday, March 17, 2022 The Liberty High grad is now a key piece of the Bulldogs’ starting lineup as they look to avenge last year’s upset loss to Baylor in the championship game.
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FeaturesAfter turning around women’s basketball at Arizona, Las Vegas product Sam Thomas takes her final shot
Thursday, March 17, 2022 She’s a bona fide legend at the school, a five-year captain who ranks as the Wildcats’ all-time leader with 151 career starts.
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SportsAnalysis: Free agency to give first glimpse of Raiders under new power structure
Monday, March 14, 2022 The New England Patriots shocked the NFL a year ago by going on a record-setting spending spree. New England doled out more than $300 million, including nearly $160 million in guaranteed money, in the first week of free agency. In hindsight, the player-signing frenzy shouldn’t have come as a total surprise given that ...
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SportsMaxx Crosby wants 'to keep going' after signing near $100 million extension
Friday, March 11, 2022 The Raiders’ new coaching staff now has one of their foundational players locked up long-term. ...
