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    A Fan's Dilemma

    Sep 25, 2020

    I want to cheer for the Raiders, but there's just one small problem

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    It’s a Vegas NFL Draft, Baby!

    Feb 26, 2020

    Las Vegas is pulling out all the stops for the NFL Draft in April. Here are some of the very Vegas elements rumored to be part of the spectacle.

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    The End of a (Short, Sweet) Hockey Era

    Jan 16, 2020

    What the firing of Gallant means for the Golden Knights (and for fans)

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    Sudden death: How to rush a stadium deal

    Sep 15, 2016

    As the Adelson-NFL stadium proposal moves rapidly forward, is Las Vegas getting a raw deal — or an honest discussion of the project’s pros and cons?

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    Homers

    Mar 24, 2016

    As two of baseball’s brightest stars, Bryce Harper and Kris Bryant, lead a pack of Vegas-bred major-leaguers, a consideration of Sin City as a baseball town.

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    Hitting it big

    Aug 27, 2015

    Far from the UFC limelight, hundreds of amateur mixed martial artists fight to go pro — or just straighten out their lives. Las Vegas has become their mecca.

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    Going long

    Sep 01, 2014

    Encounters with the greatest sportswriter you’ve never heard 

    Lunch One

    Jerry Izenberg, the greatest sportswriter you’ve never heard of, walks into the Grand Cafe at Sunset Station like a cruiserweight entering a ring. He’s loose, confident, on the balls of his feet.

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    The upside of anger

    May 01, 2014

    With a tough love that breeds a deep loyalty, UNLV baseball coach Tim Chambers is bringing the program around the bases

    Tim Chambers demanded that someone open the cherrywood casket. He wanted one last look at his father.

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    Throwing like a girl: a fair play for girls' sports

    Mar 01, 2013

    It’s a gray, windy day as play starts on the Cimarron-Memorial High School football field. But the chill doesn’t slow the Spartans who, with a few quick plays, score on their opening drive against Mojave High School.

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    A common gooooal: Bridging valley soccer's racial divide

    Sep 01, 2010

    Las Vegas soccer is divided into two worlds: the ligas americanas and ligas mexicanas. Can they learn to speak the same language - and create another soccer star? We had crossed a border in the Las Vegas Valley, less than 10 miles from our house.

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