LVSportsBiz.Com News Roundup: Two Team Presidents Form Duo At Preview Vegas; VGK’s First Employee Moves On; Flavor Flav Invites U.S. Gold Medal-Winning Women’s Team To Vegas To Celebrate

February 26, 2026February 26, 2026 Alan Snel Eric Tosi, Flavor Flav, Jack Eichel, Kerry Bubolz, Mark Stone, Mitch Marner, Nikki Fargas, Noah Hanifin, Sandra Douglass Morgan, Shea Theodore, Todd Pollock

Fargas (left) and Douglass Morgan (right)

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — They often spend time together at Las Vegas Aces games and this duo was a headliner couple at the recent Preview Las Vegas staged by the local Vegas Chamber.

They are Raiders team president Sandra Douglass Morgan, who marks her fourth year with the Raiders in July, and Aces team president Nikki Fargas, named Aces president in May 2021.

Their titles are the same, but they play different roles with Morgan hired by Raiders owner Mark Davis to lend stability to a then-turbulent front office while Fargas came aboard with bigtime women’s basketball coaching credentials as the former coach at UCLA and LSU.

Fargas also handles player personnel duties with a general manager role, while Douglass Morgan is a public face of an NFL franchise in the community while not getting involved with player decisions.

Both were hired by Davis, with their offices overseeing and running sold out Raiders and Aces games.

The U.S. men’s hockey team’s win over a powerful Canada team in overtime Sunday to win Olympic gold in Italy was a feel-good, upbeat story.

But when President Trump joked about the gold medal-winning U.S. women’s team during a phone call heard by the U.S. men’s hockey players, who joined in on the laughter, a soap opera ensued.

The men went to Trump’s State of the Union talk Tuesday, but the women declined.

And that’s when Las Vegas rapper and all-around fun guy celebrity Flavor Flav entered the drama and invited the women’s hockey team — and other medal-winning U.S. women Olympians — to Las Vegas to celebrate. Flav has generated so much free pub for Las Vegas lately that you might get the sense he’s created more attention for Vegas than the LVCVA’s Fabulous Las Vegas TV hype campaign.

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Meanwhile, Vegas Golden Knights players Shea Theodore, Mark Stone and Mitch Marner of Canada and Jack Eichel and Noah Hanifin of U.S. missed tonight’s game against the LA Kings. But the division-leading Golden Knights still racked up a half-dozen goals in a 6-4 win over the Kings in downtown Los Angeles.

Man, things have officially evolved in the front off ice of the Vegas Golden Knights.

First, former VGK president Kerry Bubolz told LVSportsBiz.com in October that he left the NHL team. Then, VGK’s original communications chief, Eric Tosi, who became the team’s chief marketing officer, said he took a job with the College Football Playoff.

Now there’s the news that the franchise’s first official employee, Todd Pollock, is calling it quits. Pollock was VGK owner Bill Foley’s righthand man, working on the original ticket deposits and then becoming the Knights’ ticket chief overseeing soldout arenas from Day 1 in 2017.