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The Las Vegas Raiders Are Screwed
The Raiders are moving to Vegas and are getting the most expensive stadium in history out of it in the process, but who exactly in gonna visit this monstrosity, especially on a Sunday, with no gambling allowed inside the joint? And how is this all a poorly veiled scheme to help enrich Jerry Jones? T...
Why The Vote To Move The Raiders To Las Vegas Wasn't Unanimous
NFL owners like to project solidarity, even if it doesn’t exist. It’s better for their product and their PR if they present a united front in matters of league import, rather than a group of factious, occasionally squabbling mega-wealthy looking out for themselves and trying to out-earn each other i...
The Raiders Are Moving To Las Vegas And It Stinks
As expected, the NFL owners have voted to allow the Oakland Raiders to move to Las Vegas, and it was overwhelming: Adam Schefter first reported the vote was 31-1 in favor, with the Dolphins’ Stephen Ross the only holdout....
Roger Goodell To City Of Oakland: Once Again, Fuck You
With NFL owners set to vote this week on the Raiders’ relocation to Las Vegas, Roger Goodell has sent one more it’s over message to the city of Oakland. Though the move is reportedly all but officially a done deal, the city presented one final plan to keep the team this week, with a proposal for a $...
Texas Tech's New Practice Facility Caught Fire
The biggest news that Texas Tech football made this offseason was their bizarre inclusion in a tortured analogy during the FBI’s Russia hearing. That is, until this afternoon, when a fire broke out at their football stadium. The school is in the process of constructing a new athletic facility right ...
We're Getting Ever Closer To The Las Vegas Raiders
NFL owners are now expected to vote at next week’s league meetings in Phoenix on the future of the Raiders, who have filled out the paperwork to move to Las Vegas and who recently locked down financing for a $1.9 billion stadium, including a record $750 million in public money. And it sounds like it...
Wait, Marshawn Lynch, Really?
You can take this for whatever it’s worth: ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that the Oakland Raiders are “strongly considering” making a run at Marshawn Lynch, who retired after the 2015 season....
Adrian Peterson Is Thirsty
There are lots of good reasons not to sign Adrian Peterson. He’s coming off a season largely lost to a torn meniscus. Between injury and suspension, he’s only appeared in 20 games over the last three seasons. He’ll turn 32 years old this month. He...you know. And yet he’s trying his damndest to drum...
The Raiders Have Found Someone To Pay For The Rest Of Their Big Dumb Stadium
The Oakland Raiders would very much like not to be the Oakland Raiders for much longer, and their ability to shed their Bay Area digs for the desert depends in part on how well they can put together a $1.9 billion deal for a new stadium. Billionaire GOP donor/goblin king Sheldon Adelson was supposed...
Reports: Goldman Sachs Also Pulling Out Of Raiders Stadium Deal
When billionaire Hutt Sheldon Adelson pulled out of the Oakland Raiders’ proposed Las Vegas stadium deal yesterday, all eyes turned toward investment firm Goldman Sachs. That’s because the Raiders had previously assured the Stadium Authority board that Goldman would provide investment with or witho...
Sheldon Adelson Pulls Out Of Las Vegas Stadium Deal, Throwing Raiders' Future Into Question
Famed GOP megadonor and newspaper-destroying toad Sheldon Adelson has backed out of the deal to finance a new Las Vegas stadium for the Oakland Raiders. Adelson was initially slated to pay for $650 million of the $1.9 billion stadium, with the state of Nevada on the hook for $750 million and the Rai...
Report: Oakland Raiders To File Relocation Papers For Move To Las Vegas
After months of gross negotiations between craven billionaires, what was all but official is reportedly one step closer to being actually official: the Oakland Raiders are preparing to file relocation papers for their move to Las Vegas, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com. ...
The NFL's Relocation Dance Is Coming To A Head
The next five days are going to prove crucial for the futures of the Chargers and the Raiders, of San Diego and Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and as 18 influential NFL owners gather in New York to figure out who’s going where, the one man who can unilaterally pick up and move his team—Chargers owner De...
Wow, What A "Football Game"
Some selected snapshots from Saturday’s playoff game between the Oakland Raiders and Houston Texans:...
How Will You Spend Your Saturday Instead Of Watching Raiders-Texans?
The nice thing about the NFL is that it doesn’t worry about hurting feelings with its TV scheduling. It’ll flex terrible teams out of primetime and not even hide the reason why. So for wild card weekend, when there’s almost always one obvious stinker, you merely need to ignore the early game on Satu...
Aqib Talib Explains Why He Snatched Michael Crabtree's Chain
Yesterday brought us one of the most incredible moments of the NFL season, when Broncos cornerback Aqib Talib ripped a gold chain from the neck of Raiders wide receiver Michael Crabtree....
Aqib Talib Is Literally Snatching Chains
Aqib Talib is always a consistent source of NFL pleasures, and today he decided that Raiders receiver Michael Crabtree didn’t really need that chain, anyway....
The Raiders' Super Bowl Hopes Probably Broke With Derek Carr
The biggest story in the NFL this holiday weekend was Derek Carr’s broken leg. The best Raiders team in more than a decade lost its MVP-caliber QB (“MVP-caliber” being code for “we want to acknowledge how excellent he’s been, but c’mon, Brady’s the MVP and you have to work really hard to come up wit...
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Now Derek Carr Is Injured And Can't Walk [Update: He Has A Broken Leg]
The best Raiders team since they reached the Super Bowl more than a decade ago is currently without its quarterback as Derek Carr was carried off the field due to an ankle injury suffered while being sacked early in the fourth quarter of an Oakland blowout against the Colts....
Oakland City Council Approves Framework Of NFL Stadium Plan
Oakland is one step closer to helping Mark Davis pay for an NFL stadium. The Oakland City Council and Alameda County Board of Supervisors both voted to approve the framework of a plan that would require that Oakland pay $200 million and give up a $150 million piece of land. The County Board vote pas...