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Third time’s the charm? Faith Lutheran football chases elusive state title

Faith Lutheran football coach Jay Staggs posed a question to his players last week before their first practice ahead of Tuesday’s Class 5A state championship ...

Fans’ energy is full throttle for racing spectacle on the Las Vegas Strip

For mother-daughter duo Julie and Hailie Bonz, the Las Vegas Grand Prix is a dream come true.

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 12 winners against the spread

For the first time this year, the Eagles are now the Super Bowl 60 favorites. With an inside track on the NFC’s No. 1 seed ...

Las Vegas Grand Prix features high stakes, rising phenom

For all of the complaints from Formula One drivers and fans about the Las Vegas Grand Prix being a glorified exhibition when it was introduced ...

Three days of Formula One excitement about to hit the Las Vegas Strip

The Las Vegas Grand Prix returns for its third year this week, transforming the Strip into a three-day motorsports extravaganza — complete with racing action, ...

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of every Week 13 game

A handicapper’s biggest challenge at this point of the season might be deciding how to weight recent returns with the larger year-long sample. ...

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of every Week 12 game

CFP rankings are now released every Tuesday night, spurring dissection and discussion far and wide. But the betting market implies it all might be unnecessary. ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 10 winners against the spread

The average game this season has produced just short of 47 points — a point more than last season and the NFL’s highest scoring environment ...

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of every Week 11 game

Ohio State has now covered 12 straight games dating back to last year’s College Football Playoff run. ...

Pastner’s UNLV philosophy: Playing hard isn't negotiable

Josh Pastner's philosophy is impossible to miss. Walk into the UNLV locker room, and you’ll find it plastered on the walls: “Winning this possession is ...

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 10

Many have suggested that becoming the Heisman front-runner is a cursed situation this season. ...

Overshadowed but never outplayed, Mitch Marner making major mark in Vegas

The 28-year-old Marner hasn’t been the Golden Knights’ main attraction during the first two weeks of the regular season, but he’s more than living up ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 8 winners against the spread

Swings are a certainty when betting on sports, especially markets as liquid as the NFL, and the only way to maintain sanity is to embrace ...

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 9

The most compelling conference championship race in college football isn’t materializing in the sport’s pair of billion-dollar leagues, the SEC and the Big Ten. ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 7 winners against the spread

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 ...

CCSD high schools trade grass for greener, more sustainable athletic fields

The district says it has spent about $195 million so far on the project and has budgeted another $64 million to complete the conversions. The ...

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 8

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. ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 6 winners against the spread

The last unbeaten and last winless future markets were both settled in Week 5. ....

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 7

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 ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 5 winners against the spread

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 ...