Faces Tell Las Vegas Sports Story In 2023: LVSportsBiz.com Photographers’ Best Photos Featured In Year-end Feature

By LVSportsBiz.com Staff

The year in pictures.

LVSportsBiz.com photographers J. Tyge O’Donnell, Hugh Byrne, Jeff Goulding captured these baker’s dozen photos.

We report on the deals of Las Vegas sports. But behind the deals are sports events that bring out the emotions and amazing facial expressions of the participants. Our photographers were there to chronicle the events behind the deals.

Let’s start!

First off, new coaches unite: UNLV’s first-year Barry Odom and Raiders’ interim coach Antonio Pierce before a UNLV game at Allegiant Stadium.

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2. Tom Wilson will always evoke emotions for VGK fans.

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3. The senior game for UNLV.

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4. Las Vegas sports growth has a man with the numbers and the enthusiasm. Jeremy Aguero.

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5. LeBron James wants to own an NBA team in Las Vegas.

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6. The Raiders will likely not make the playoffs. But a business magazine valued the team at $6.2 billion.

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7. Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley said Cup in 6 and that’s exactly what happened.

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8. The fans keep coming to Raiders games.

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9.  The Golden Knights are still the king of Las Vegas sports.

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10. National Finals Rodeo averaged about 17,500 fans a night in December.

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11. LVSportsBiz.com covered Super Bowl 57 in Phoenix andchatted with the “Sodfather,” George Toma, at the stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

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12. Aces star A’ja Wilson led the Aces to a second straight WNBA championship.

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13. UNLV made a bowl game for the first time in a decade in 2023, but a loss at the end of the season still hurts.

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