Case Keefer
Assistant Sports Editor
Story Archive
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SportsCentennial High product Jonah Laulu joins Raiders off waivers
Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024 Laulu is immediately placed on the 53-man roster, along with safety Thomas Harper whom the Raiders claimed from the Los Angeles Chargers. ...
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GamingCollege football by the odds: Las Vegas picks for every Week 1 game
Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024 Colorado stole the spotlight in college football’s Week 1 festivities a year ago. It only feels fair that the Buffaloes reclaim their spot at center stage on the opening night of Week 1 for the 2024 season. ...
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SportsRaiders' initial 53-man roster: McAllister makes the cut
Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024 The Raiders had a pair of moderate surprises included on their initial 53-man regular-season roster when it was submitted to the NFL ahead of the 1 p.m. deadline. ...
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GamingWeekend Wagers: Eight bets on eight different sports
Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024 Football season is back, and it feels oh-so-good. ...
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SportsReceiver makes big impression in Raiders' final preseason game
Friday, Aug. 23, 2024 The 26-year-old receiver showed out against the San Francisco 49ers, keying a resilient effort that saw the Raiders eke out a 24-24 tie by virtue of a late, 43-yard field goal by kicker Daniel Carlson ...
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SportsRaiders look to firm up 53-man roster in final preseason game
Friday, Aug. 23, 2024 Las Vegas’ starters won’t take the field as the entire 60 minutes will be dedicated to the players closer to the bottom of the current 90-man roster. The Raiders, along with the other 31 NFL franchises, must cut down to their 53-man regular-season roster ...
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SportsCollege football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 0
Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024 Betting history is already on pace to be made during college football’s soft-opening Saturday. ...
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SportsRaiders name Gardner Minshew starting quarterback over Aidan O'Connell
Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024 Las Vegas coach Antonio Pierce announced the decision Sunday morning after reviewing film from last night’s preseason loss to Dallas and conferring with general manager Tom Telesco and offensive coordinator Luke Getsy. ...
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SportsMinshew, O'Connell flop as Raiders lose second straight in preseason
Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024 The stage was set for O’Connell to seize the job and, for a while at least, it looked like that was exactly what would happen. The second-year, fourth-round pick out of Purdue led ...
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SportsWeekend wagers: Seven bets to make on seven sports
Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024 T-minus seven days until college football season begins. Nineteen days are left until the NFL follows suit. ...
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SportsPreseason player to watch: RB Dylan Laube showing 'special' signs in Las Vegas
Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024 Laube turned as many heads as anyone on the roster during the team’s tenure at the Jack R. Hammett Sports Complex. The next step for the 5-foot-10, 208-pound playmaker is to carry the momentum into the preseason. ...
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SportsTucker's time: Raiders speedster needs a big preseason to capitalize on bigger opportunities
Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024 At the end of Raiders’ minicamp this spring in Henderson, veteran receiver Jakobi Meyers joked he was ready for the team to get away for training camp so he could “beat up on Tre Tucker a little bit.” Meyers ended up passing on the opportunity to playfully bully his younger, smaller ...
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SportsRaider X-Factor: Adam Butler could help team unlock full defensive potential
Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024 Maxx Crosby and Christian Wilkins were outdone and drowned out for once. The Raiders’ pair of $100 million defensive-line disruptors are typically both the most impactful and loudest players at practice on ...
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SportsWeekend wagers: Five bets to make on five sports
Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024 There are plenty of football games left to bet that should have more definitive endings. ...
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SportsRaiders' rookie TE Brock Bowers doing it all at training camp
Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024 Bowers has arguably been Las Vegas’ most reliable weapon as the team enters the midway point of training camp with the eighth of 16 permitted practices scheduled for this evening at the Jack R. Hammett Sports Complex ...
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SportsJakorian Bennett on pace to claim Raiders’ starting cornerback job
Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024 The music amplified, the offense huddled and Jakorian Bennett bounced. The Raiders’ second-year cornerback then began hyping up his defensive teammates as they prepared for an 11-on-11 period against the starting offense Wednesday morning at the Jack R. Hammett Sports Complex. As the offense broke the huddle and ...
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SportsBets to make on eight football awards before the season starts
Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024 The preponderance of options has slowly made awards wagering perhaps the most popular vehicle of football future bets.
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SportsRaiders ‘set the tone’ with lively and competitive first practice in pads
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 Christian Wilkins bulldozed the Raiders’ interior offensive line, blew up a play and boasted about it. The Raiders’ new $110 million defensive tackle got in the faces of ...
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SportsAntonio Pierce in his element for Raiders’ Southern California training camp
Saturday, July 27, 2024 The Raiders’ coach said “it’s all peaches and cream” when it comes to heading his first training camp 28 miles from his hometown of Paramount, Calif. ...
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GamingWeekend wagers: Five bets to make on five sports
Saturday, July 27, 2024 All hail Xander Schauffele, the patron saint of Weekend Wagers’ bankroll. ...
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SportsLas Vegas taps into depth early in training camp with new-look offensive line
Friday, July 26, 2024 The Raiders’ offensive line took some punishment in Thursday’s second practice of training camp, even five days before pads come on and full-contact drills commence. Star defensive tackle Christian Wilkins planted ...
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SportsMinshew, O’Connell settle in for Raiders QB competition with solid practice debuts
Thursday, July 25, 2024 The opening practice at Jack Hammett Sports Complex was light on full-team drills — and the Raiders won’t put pads on until next Tuesday — but neither Minshew nor ...
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Sports‘Gritty’ Liberty grad Troy Fautanu set up for big things with Steelers
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Troy Fautanu still lives minutes away from Liberty High School and, as such, regularly experiences memories of his time with the Patriots rushing back when he visits or catches a glimpse of the football field. Almost all of the flashbacks are positive as the 23-year-old reflects on playing with his childhood friends and ...
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SportsFrom horse farm to training camp: Zamir White to carry heavy load for Raiders
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 The Raiders report to training camp ahead of the upcoming season this morning in Costa Mesa, Calif. It’s the start of a monthlong period most NFL players dread because of ...
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SportsWeekend wagers: Six bets to make on six different sports
Saturday, July 20, 2024 Weekend Wagers was built as a way to cover and find bets on all the biggest sporting events going on at any given moment. ...
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Camp competition: Seven position battles to watch as the Raiders prepare for the season
Thursday, July 18, 2024 Continuity is one of the main reasons why the Raiders believe they can make a leap into the playoffs this season after a two-year absence. There aren’t many sweeping changes ...
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SportsWeekend wagers: Eight bets to make on eight different sports
Saturday, July 13, 2024 Of all the 12 football teams that paraded through Circa as part of Mountain West Media Days earlier this week, UNLV stood out as one of the most confident groups. ...
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SportsBond between stars Ricky White, Jackson Woodard drives UNLV into big season
Friday, July 12, 2024 Ricky White and Jackson Woodard spent more than six straight hours Wednesday talking to reporters at Mountain West Media Days, but the most important conversation they had around the event might have taken place the night before. The UNLV football team’s two biggest returning stars sat down for dinner on ...
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SportsWhat to watch at the NBA's 20th edition of Las Vegas Summer League
Thursday, July 11, 2024 The NBA’s Las Vegas Summer League seems to gain in popularity every year, and this year’s 20th anniversary edition at the Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion is no exception. Each of the league’s 30 franchises are again slated to bring a roster of rookies, other young prospects who need more seasoning and veteran ...
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GamingWeekend wagers: Eight bets to make on eight sports
Saturday, July 6, 2024 From now through the end of the season, at least one football bet will be included in every Weekend Wagers entry ....
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SportsUFC 303: Alex Pereira knocks out Jiri Prochazka, eyes historic third title
Saturday, June 29, 2024 Pereira debuted in the octagon less than three years ago but has gone 8-1 and captured titles in both the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions. And now he has his eyes on becoming the first fighter in UFC history to win a third title. ...
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SportsUFC iron man Arlovski back in Las Vegas for one more fight with no plans to stop
Saturday, June 29, 2024 The 45-year-old heavyweight originally from Belarus will compete in his 60th professional bout today on the preliminary card of UFC 303 against Martin Buday, a 33-year-old Slovakian, at T-Mobile Arena ...
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GamingWeekend wagers: A bunch of bets including three on UFC 303
Saturday, June 29, 2024 The local NHL Draft, which started Friday at Sphere, got everyone thinking about the outlook of the league next year. ...
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SportsLas Vegas native Payton Talbott soars as fastest-rising star at UFC 303
Friday, June 28, 2024 Many have compared Talbott’s smooth-moving, electric-striking style to the one employed by the current champion at his weight class, Sean O’Malley ...
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SportsConsolation fight: Losing McGregor-Chandler hurts, but Pereira-Procházka sets up better for UFC 303
Thursday, June 27, 2024 There’s no question fighting and a drive to be the best is the sole focus for Pereira and Procházka—the pair that now faces off in the main event of UFC 303 ...
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SportsUFC announces title sponsor of Sphere card scheduled for September
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 The UFC is also multitasking as it juggles promoting UFC 303 Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena with looking ahead to its next major local event on Sept. 14 at Sphere. ...
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SportsRaiders unveil new luxury tailgate spaces ahead of next season
Friday, June 21, 2024 The franchise vowed to progress its tailgating standards upon moving to Las Vegas from Oakland ahead of the 2020 season, and four posh, mobile spaces are the latest advance ...
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SportsRaiders’ offense has a long way to go as team breaks before training camp
Saturday, June 15, 2024 Having already dominated the prior three-week stretch of organized team activities (OTAs), Las Vegas’ defense amplified again at mandatory minicamp. The offense was so inefficient that there’s some concern ...
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SportsRaiders put a lot of trust in Pierce's protégé to be top cornerback
Thursday, June 13, 2024 Several Raiders players came out publicly in support of then-interim head Antonio Pierce in the two weeks after the end of last season while team owner Mark Davis conducted a search for the next permanent coach. Cornerback Jack Jones was not among them. That was mostly because the 26-year-old Jones had already repeatedly made his ...
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SportsChristian Wilkins wrecks Raiders’ offense on first day of mandatory minicamp
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 Asked which of his new teammates had stood out the most at the conclusion of three weeks of organized team activities last week, Raiders quarterback Gardner Minshew answered immediately. “I’d say Christian Wilkins,” Minshew responded. “That dude is running so fast every single play. Wherever the ball is ...
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SportsO’Connell leads but Minshew remains favorite to win Raiders QB job
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 Antonio Pierce opened a month-long stretch of pre-training camp practices in May by declaring Aidan O’Connell had, “earned the right to go out there and take the first snap,” in the Raiders’ quarterback ...
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SportsWeekend wagers: Bets on eight sports including NBA Finals, Stanley Cup Final
Saturday, June 8, 2024 Weekend Wagers will cash a Stanley Cup Final futures ticket for the second straight year. ...
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SportsSpillane set to build on breakout season in second year with Raiders
Friday, June 7, 2024 In his first career NFL start four years ago, then-Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Robert Spillane halted freight-train then-Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry with a goal line hit that went viral in NFL circles. Despite having since established himself as a proven veteran and captain of the Las Vegas Raiders’ defense, Spillane still ...
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SportsPoker party: The 2024 WSOP, by the numbers
Thursday, June 6, 2024 Thousands upon thousands of cardplayers flock to Las Vegas every summer for the chance to win millions of dollars in the world’s most prestigious set of ...
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SportsMarvin Lewis leapt back into the NFL for chance to coach with Antonio Pierce
Sunday, June 2, 2024 Marvin Lewis is the second-in-command in Pierce’s new coaching staff, serving as his longtime pupil’s assistant head coach to break a six-year absence from the NFL going into next season. ...
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GamingWeekend wagers: Eight bets to make on seven sports
Saturday, June 1, 2024 Sports betting’s legalized, nationwide expansion and subsequent popularity boom over the last six years has resulted in the emergence of some niche markets becoming more widespread. ...
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SportsRaiders to rely on young tight ends, expected to run a lot of '12 personnel'
Thursday, May 30, 2024 They might play the same position, but the 6-foot-4, 265-pound Michael Mayer and the 6-foot-3, 240-pound Brock Bowers have skill sets that should complement each other. Bowers is dynamic in the open field ...
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SportsWeekend Wagers: Eight bets on eight sports including on the three big races
Saturday, May 25, 2024 Racing fans can cozy up in a sports book chair for 13 or more straight hours Sunday without ever growing bored. ...
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FeaturesUnsung Hero Award: Edgar Thomas, Clark County School District
Thursday, May 23, 2024 Edgar Thomas might be used to receiving odd looks when he responds to people asking him if he has any children. “You will always hear me say that I have 300,000 kids,” he says.
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FeaturesCoach of the Year: Nicole Murphy, Durango volleyball
Thursday, May 23, 2024 After going 2-5 at its fall classic in late September, the Trailblazers rattled off 13 straight wins.
