Brian Blessing, Bernie Fratto, Adam Hill and Matt Youmans post their best bets for college football and the NFL.
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Texas is a 3-point favorite over Texas Christian on Friday. Even if the Longhorns win an emotional game, their coach is likely to get fired.
The Jets are 5-0-1 against the spread versus New England in the teams’ past six meetings. New York is worth a shot as a 7½- to 8-point underdog Sunday.
Brigham Young, the first Mountain West champion to play in the Las Vegas Bowl, rolled past Oregon 38-8 on Dec. 21, 2006.
Football fans get an early start on Week 12 of the NFL season with six teams meeting on this Thanksgiving Day.
The Cowboys, riding a nine-game winning roll and 9-0-1 against the spread, are 7-point favorites over the Washington Redskins in the second of Thursday’s three games.
Sam Boyd Stadium was filled with snow after a winter storm hit the day before Las Vegas Bowl XVII.
A College Football Hall of Famer, John Robinson said UNLV and UNR’s annual Battle for the Fremont Cannon — which will be played at 1 p.m. Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium — is every bit as heated as USC’s rivalries.
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The schools will square off for the 42nd time at 1 p.m. Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium, where college football’s largest and most expensive rivalry trophy — it weighs 545 pounds and cost $10,000 to build in 1970 — will be on the field.
Five UNLV football recruits are expected to make their official visits to the school this weekend and attend Saturday’s rivalry game against UNR at Sam Boyd Stadium.
It’s Thanksgiving week in the NFL, aka Week 12. That means it’s the week with seven games on national broadcast television, the most of any week of the season.
After his squad reclaimed the cannon from UNR following last season’s 23-17 win in Reno, Sanchez discovered an old engraving on the inside of it poking fun at UNLV, which is 17-24 against the Wolf Pack.
To celebrate the Las Vegas Bowl’s 25-year milestone, the Review-Journal will rank the top 25 moments in Las Vegas Bowl history. We’ll relive one moment per day until game day on Dec. 17 at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said Tuesday the city has agreed on the framework for a new stadium plan. However, the Raiders are not part of that agreement.
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