Sharp bettors are banking on the Raiders to cover against the Giants as consensus 3-point favorites. The line has climbed to 3½ at the South Point, Treasure Island and Circa Sports.
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The Raiders hit the field on Sunday for the first time since the Henry Ruggs incident, and their fans have a lot of questions about where things stand.
Canelo Alvarez will meet undefeated Las Vegan Caleb Plant for the undisputed super middleweight championship Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
The PBR Team Series will run from June to November. Eight teams of bull riders will be featured in a 10-game regular season followed by playoffs.
The Atlanta Braves won their first World Series since Valley graduate Greg Maddux helped the club win the 1995 championship.
The Golden Knights, in agreeing to acquire Jack Eichel, are going to let him have disk replacement surgery rather than a more common and more proven disk fusion surgery.
Las Vegas handicapper Bruce Marshall is editor of The Gold Sheet (Goldsheet.com). He provides the Review-Journal with NFL tech notes and trends.
Auburn quarterback Bo Nix has always struggled against top defenses, a trend that has continued this season. Look for Texas A&M’s stout defense to extend that trend on Saturday.
Las Vegas’ Noah Gragson will honor Golden Knights by sporting chin whiskers in NASCAR Xfinity Series championship race.
Amber Hanover, who won Station Casinos’ Last Man Standing contest last season, won in Week 8 with under 23 in the first half of Panthers-Falcons.
Doyle Brunson, the 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and two-time Main Event champion, entered Day 1A of the Main Event on Thursday.
Goaltender Robin Lehner won for the third time in his past four starts, and the Golden Knights beat the Senators 5-1 on Thursday in Ottawa, Ontario.
Kevontae’ Ruggs, a former college football player, expressed support for his brother and condolences for the driver killed in Tuesday’s crash that has the former Raiders’ wide receiver facing felony charges.
There are six teams with odds of 10-1 or less to win the Super Bowl. The Bills are the clear betting favorites to win it all. But the NFC is a 2-point favorite over the AFC in the early Super Bowl line.
Raiders offensive coordinator Greg Olson said he and players wonder what they could have done to prevent the Henry Ruggs’ crash that took a life.