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Las Vegas has always been a baseball town. The A’s are making it official

DJ Pauly D and Nick Carter threw out the first pitches, UFC announcer Bruce Buffer handled the pregame introductions and A’s legend Rollie Fingers bellowed ...

Scripps dispute blocks Golden Knights' Stanley Cup game on DIRECTV

Millions of DIRECTV customers across the country, including viewers in Las Vegas, lost access to dozens of local broadcast stations Monday after a retransmission consent ...

Las Vegas steaks, Carolina barbecue on the line as Catholic bishops wager on Stanley Cup

Archbishop George Leo Thomas of the Archdiocese of Las Vegas and Bishop Luis Rafael Zarama of the Diocese of Raleigh, N.C., have placed a friendly ...

Another Carter Hart gem gets Golden Knights back into Stanley Cup Final

Fans groaned all year that the Golden Knights had high upside if only they could find steadier play in net. Hart has given them steadier ...

Analysis: Record comeback puts Knights one win away from Stanley Cup Final

To beat Colorado in Game 3, Vegas was going to have to top the longtime Stanley Cup favorite at its own game. ...

NHL fines Tortorella $100K, strips Golden Knights of draft pick after media blackout

The NHL fined Golden Knights coach John Tortorella $100,000 and stripped Las Vegas of its 2026 second-round draft pick Friday, punishing the club for what ...

With superstar A’ja Wilson, defending champion Aces go into new season both stable and reloaded

A’ja Wilson is coming off one of the best stretches in WNBA history, having led the Las Vegas Aces to a third title in four ...

Raiders finally have their act together, setting up Fernando Mendoza to succeed

Prepare for some shots of the start of the 2026 NFL Draft at 5 p.m. Thursday to look straight out of a science-fiction film.

Proposed Las Vegas arena pitches itself as NBA expansion site

A proposed arena on the Las Vegas Strip is positioning itself as a candidate to host a future NBA expansion team in the city.

UNLV basketball picks up transfer from Florida State

Guard Cam Miles, who averaged 5.4 points and 1.7 assists per game this season at Florida State, is transferring to UNLV basketball, he announced on ...

A'ja Wilson signs biggest supermax deal in WNBA history to stay with Aces

A’ja Wilson is staying in Las Vegas after signing the largest contract in WNBA history, according to ESPN. The fully guaranteed supermax deal with the ...

Centennial graduate Taylor Bigby picked in 3rd round of WNBA draft

TCU guard Taylor Bigby became the record third Horned Frog taken in Monday’s WNBA draft, selected in the third round (No. 37 overall) by the ...

A's Player of the Month: Sierra Vista's Amaya Wusstig

The middle school flag football team needed a quarterback, so the coach lined all the girls up and had them throw the ball.

Kirk Cousins, not Fernando Mendoza, is Raiders’ likeliest Week 1 starter

Don’t be surprised if and when Klint Kubiak ultimately deems Cousins the best option and makes the longtime Vikings and Commanders passer the 10th starting ...

Masters by the odds: An outright bet to make and three more to consider

The 2026 Masters may very well end with one of the best players in the world climbing to within one major victory of completing the ...

Duke, Florida betting favorites in Las Vegas to win 2027 basketball title

Duke and Florida are the early favorites to win the 2027 NCAA men’s basketball national championship, according to the William Hill sportsbook.

NCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of the Final Four

The UConn Huskies have already clinched their place in the legacy of the 2026 NCAA Tournament. ...

Las Vegas’ second Super Bowl will ‘raise the bar’ from wildly successful debut

Las Vegas was one of, if not the singular, best host of the Super Bowl in the modern era since it’s morphed into the annual, ...

Golden Knights fire Bruce Cassidy, replace him with John Tortorella

Bruce Cassidy is out as coach of the Vegas Golden Knights, who fired him Sunday in an abrupt late-season change and replaced him with John ...

NCAA Tournament by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Saturday's Elite 8

Sportsbooks had the Big Ten's over/under tournament wins proposition bet set at 13.5 going into the tournament, but the conference eclipsed that one game into ...