Big Play

Now what? The Las Vegas Raiders, winless and without a cover, are back home at Allegiant Stadium on Sunday afternoon and will host the Denver Broncos. The line opened at -1.5 or -2 in many spots [...]

Rooting, cheering and screaming at the top of your lungs for the Las Vegas Raiders and watching them lose is one thing. Betting on them and watching your hard-earned money go up in smoke is [...]

Bring on the Cardinals. That’s what Raiders fans and bettors could be saying about Week 2 of the NFL season after the Silver and Black suffered a humbling 24-19 loss` to the San Diego [...]

Now the fun begins. And the lines snaking to the betting windows. And the pleas from exasperated ticket writers. “Next! Next! … Nexxxxt!” The NFL season is underway, and the Las [...]

Are the UNLV football Rebels for real? After a 52-21 thrashing of Idaho State last Saturday in which they amassed 554 total yards, they look for real. Still, most football analysts and [...]

The Las Vegas Raiders were the hot betting ticket for Preseason Week 1 of their preseason campaign. After opening at -2.5, eager bettors boosted the number to -4.5 before kickoff at 1:25 p.m. on [...]

So much for the wiseguys. The sharps and those who knew something and those who thought they knew something about the Raiders-Jaguars total in the Hall of Fame Game last Thursday maybe [...]

You can count on a few things in August in the desert: Stifling humidity, quixotic monsoonal showers that send weather forecasters and social media into a tizzy, and the start of college football [...]

Rrrrai-ders! That’s right, in a little more than a week, the Silver and Black will be back in action between the hash marks, and the fans’ familiar chants will be heard. Rrrrai-ders! [...]

For a few hours at least, Major League Baseball will take occupy center stage in America’s collective consciousness. You can bet on it too. The opportunity arises Tuesday when American [...]