LVSportsBiz.com Confidential: October One A Difficult Day For Las Vegas
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
October 1 hits hard in Las Vegas. On Oct. 1, 2017, a man used a Mandalay Bay suite as a perch to shoot round after round after round on thousands attending the outdoor Route 91 Harvest Festival country music concert.
Fifty-eight were killed, and two more died from injuries sustained at this country’s deadliest mass shooting.
Las Vegas copes with memorials and ceremonies for first responders. The Vegas Golden Knights rallied this community to deal with the killings while making a miracle run to the Stanley Cup Final in 2018.
But the United States has not changed. Mass shootings continue thanks to easy access to machine guns and semi-automatic rifles
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When Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce talked about players making “business decisions” in a disappointing loss to the Carolina Panthers nine days ago, people immediately began speculating about the players Pierce was talking about.
A player who came to mind was Davante Adams, the Raiders’ star receiver who had a reunion with his old Fresno State mate, Derek Carr.
Today’s news that the Raiders will consider a trade for Adams was not surprising for LVSportsBiz.com. He was a star player on a team trying to fashion an identity even after Pierce was named permanent coach after his interim stint of winning five and losing four in the final nine games of the 2023 schedule. The Raiders defeated the Cleveland Browns Sunday with neither Adams nor Maxx Crosby in the lineup.
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Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay will be packed with about 10,300 fanatic Las Vegas Aces boosters on Friday evening at 6:30PM.
The Aces have their backs to the wall, a mere game from elimination in the WNBA playoffs against their East Coast rivals, the New York Liberty.
In Game 2 on Tuesday, the Liberty took a 2-0 lead in the Best-of-5 WNBA Semis with an 88-84 win over the Aces.
The Aces won their second straight WNBA title in New York in 2023, but the Liberty have jelled as a team in 2024 as the league’s number one seed.
LVSportsBiz.com will be covering the Aces’ Game 3 showdown with New York Friday.
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UNLV football has become more than relevant. The Rebels are ranked in the Top 25 in both the AP and Coaches polls.
On Friday, expect a very spirited crowd at Allegiant Stadium as UNLV hosts Power 4 conference team Syracuse from the ACC.
UNLV demolished Mountain West foe Fresno State Saturday with new quarterback Hajj-Malik Williams looking sharp in his debut after previous and former UNLV quarterback Matt Sluka left the team, alleging UNLV reneged on a $100,000 payment.
UNLV will be joined in the Mountain West Conference by an eighth college — UTEP will be the eighth member starting play in 2026.
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He lived in Las Vegas and Clark County ruled 83-year-old Pete Rose’s cause of death was “Hypertensive and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease with a significant condition of Diabetes Mellitus. The manner of death was natural.”
There were two Pete Roses.
There was the Rose who ruled the ballfield, hitting baseballs on lines all over the ball yard. He’s the Hit King and played with such fervor that his Charlie Hustle moniker is synonymous with Rose.
Then there’s off-field crude Rose, the man who bet on MLB games as a Reds player-manager and lied about it for years. He also served jail time for tax evasion. He loved his fans and had friends who sold memorabilia. But Rose seemed like an immature adult, unable to show humility and authentic remorse for lying about his gambling on MLB games.
He wore a white ball cap and was seen at tables in memorabilia stories in Las Vegas selling his autograph on baseballs, caps, photos and shirts.
Often, he as alone at these autograph appearances.
A solitary figure wearing a white ballcap in the end.
