The New York Giants have picked up the fifth-year option on receiver Odell Beckham Jr.’s contract.
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Actor Tom Hanks ripped the franchise’s eventual relocation from Oakland, an impromptu pivot made Wednesday at a San Francisco charity event.
Months of scouting and analysis is done, 32 teams are ready and many young football players’ dreams will come true today. The NFL Draft is finally here.
Based on the opening lines, oddsmakers at CG Technology expect the 2017 NFL season to mirror 2016, when the Patriots and Falcons went a combined 28-10 against the spread and the Browns and Rams went a combined 8-23-1 ATS.
Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie has eight selections — one in the first six rounds, two in the seventh — and if six were spent on defense, no one should be surprised.
The Raiders are favored in 10 games — seven of them by three points or fewer — with their Week 15 matchup against the Cowboys a pick’em in lines available for wagering at noon Thursday at CG Technology sports books.
The Raiders finalized a two year, $16.5 million contract with the 31-year-old running back on Wednesday.
What will the Raiders do with the 24th overall selection in Thurday’s NFL Draft? Here’s who some Review-Journal staffers think they will pick:
Andrew Price and Troy Hawthorne arrived at UNLV together five years ago. Now the two Rebels hope they become NFL players together this week.
The state’s sports books won a record $41.275 million on basketball in March, a hold of 9.61 percent from a record handle of $429.5 million.
The NHL expansion team will play four road games in an eight-day span followed by three home games in six days, pending final approval by the NHL.
The team will announce its Day 3 selections Saturday in front of the iconic “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign.
For only the second time in 17 years, a quarterback probably won’t be selected in the first three picks of the NFL Draft, which starts Thursday in Philadelphia.
Former Alabama inside linebacker Reuben Foster once was widely considered his class’s top talent at the position.
The New Orleans Saints and free-agent running back Adrian Peterson have agreed on a two-year contract.
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