Westgate SuperContest winner Damon Graham likes the Dolphins as 10-point road underdogs against the Steelers and the Texans as 3½-point home favorites over the Raiders.
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Three-star recruit Drew Tejchman orally committed to UNLV on Friday. He’s a wide receiver from North Cobb High in Georgia.
The NFL postseason continues this weekend with the wild-card round, and come Sunday night, we’ll be one week closer to knowing the teams heading to Super Bowl LI.
The Associated Press 2016 NFL All-Pro Team is showing off the new wave of pro football stars. Three rookies among 17 first-time selections highlight the team, including Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott, and Kansas City’s Tyreek Hill.
Former Bishop Gorman quarterback Tate Martell will be featured in an upcoming docuseries from award-winning director Peter Berg titled “QB1: Beyond the Lights.”
Aside from his dance moves during games, New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.’s hairdo might be his most easily recognizable feature, and he used that to his full advantage as an undercover Lyft driver recently.
P.J. Fleck is leaving Western Michigan and heading to Minnesota to coach its reeling football program.
UNLV hired Collegiate Sports Associates to conduct its search for an athletic director. Also, Nancy Rapoport, special counsel to UNLV president Len Jessup, will serve as chairwoman of the search committee.
Offensive lineman Daniel Schoene announced his verbal commitment to the Rebels on Thursday, a day after decommitting from San Jose State.
Damon Graham, a Starbucks barista from Las Vegas, won more than $900,000 in the Westgate’s SuperContest, the nation’s most prestigious NFL handicapping contest.
The Oakland Raiders are going with rookie Connor Cook at quarterback in their wild-card game against the Texans.
As much as the truth hurts — the odds of a non-Power 5 ever cracking a Final Four in football rank alongside those of Urban Meyer being satisfied with how Ohio State’s season concluded — a recent suggestion from the not-so-major conferences is ill-advised.
For ‘under’ bettors and Las Vegas sports books, it was as bad as a beat gets. For ‘over’ bettors, it was a veritable New Year miracle.
Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam have apologized to the team’s season-ticket holders following a 1-15 season.
Minnesota fired coach Tracy Claeys on Tuesday, just over two weeks after the football program became embroiled in a standoff with the administration over the suspension of 10 players in connection with allegations of sexual assault, two people with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.
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