Oakland Raiders

After months of speculation and political posturing, the Legislature will finally decide in the coming days whether to give $750 million in public money to build a football stadium in Las Vegas to try and woo the Oakland Raiders.

As our readers know, we’re huge sports fans. So the idea of going to a professional sporting event in our home state of Nevada is very exciting.
And that excitement is resonating across Nevada as the Oakland Raiders are considering relocating to Las Vegas.

However, that excitement alone isn’t enough to justify higher taxes in order to provide public funding for constructing a new stadium. Professional sports are, after all, a business and should be financed on their own.

Goal number one: Ride all the rides at Disneyland, including the scary ones. Goal number two: Make friends with all of the other state Youths of the Year prior to competing against them in Anaheim for a coveted spot in the national competition in President Barack Obama’s office this fall.

While the first goal could be from any teenager’s to do list, Autumn Cuellar of Carson City is not just any teen, thus, goal number two.

Las Vegas business leaders received a survey Monday morning sent by the Metro Chamber on behalf of the Oakland Raiders that asks about the proposed stadium but leaves out one teeny piece of the puzzle: How people feel about public money being spent.

GARDNERVILLE, Nev. – Oakland Raiders offensive line coach, Mike Tice, is bringing his annual Carson Valley friends and family golf outing benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Nevada to the public this year.

Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis said he was serious about moving the team to Las Vegas and would put up $500 million toward a proposed $1.4 billion, 65,000-seat domed stadium.

A blockbuster gathering of 90 major sports and entertainment stars — including Charles Barkley, Justin Timberlake and five NFL starting quarterbacks — have signed on for the 27th annual American Century Championship, July 19–24 at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course. The 54-hole tournament will be televised live on NBC Sports and NBCSN.

Oakland Raiders Offensive Line Coach, Mike Tice, and Carson Valley Inn Owner Mike Pegram, present a check in the amount of $128,500 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Nevada, Carson Valley Branch.

Accepting the check was Board Members Sherry Dilley and Brenda Robertson, and Susie Messina, Special Events Coordinator for the Clubs.

Tickets are available for a Saturday crawfish feed and evening with Oakland Raiders Offensive Line Coach Mike Tice. The event will be at TJ's Corral at Carson Valley Inn, beginning at 7 p.m.

This is the kick off to the 5th Annual Mike Tice Charity Golf Tournament to benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Nevada.

Tickets for the crawfish feed charity event are $40 and includes food, beer and live music provided by "Decades."

The Sunday, June 21, golf tournament held at the Genoa Lakes Golf Course is sold out.

There’s one place where NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB rivalries meet annually to settle old scores. The venue: Lake Tahoe. The event: The American Century Championship. At stake: a share in the $625,000 prize purse. The scene: Six days of fist bumps, high fives, autograph signing, photos with fans, laughs galore and some great golf.

A blockbuster lineup of sports legends, all-stars, Olympians and hall of famers plus Hollywood celebrities of film and television will go tee to green July 14-19 at the 26th American Century Championship at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Club.

Whether you are a Raiders Fan or not, come out and watch the Raiders games every Sunday, game day. The Carson City Raiders Booster Club meet every week at the "Eleventh Frame Room" at the Carson Lanes the south end of Carson City.

The following schedule is of the remaining games:

Oct. 19, 1:25 pm vs. Cardinals
Oct. 26, 1:25 pm vs. at Browns
Nov. 2, 1:25 pm vs. at Seahawks
Nov. 9, 1:05 pm vs. Broncos
Nov. 16, 1:05 pm vs. at Chargers
Nov. 20, 5:25 pm vs. Chiefs
Nov. 30, 10:00 am vs. at Rams
Dec. 7, 1:25 pm vs. 49ers
Dec. 14, 10:00 am vs. at Chiefs
Dec. 21, 1:25 pm vs. Bills

Raiders fans, did you know there is a booster club in Carson City that is the next best thing to being at an Oakland Raiders game?

This Saturday, the Carson City Raiders Booster Club will hold its annual Membership Picnic, and you are invited to attend. The picnic will be at the Dayton State Park off Highway 50 in Dayton.

Parking is $5.00 As signed member you will receive 1 club t-shirt. The CCRBC will provide the main dish, sodas, and bottled water. Please bring a dish to share, and drinks of your choice if you choose to drink something else.

One of the all-time greats of the San Francisco 49ers, three-time Super Bowl champion Roger Craig will serve as the keynote speaker at the 45th annual Governor’s Dinner in July, the Nevada athletics department announced Tuesday.

The dinner is set for July 12 at the Governor’s Mansion in Carson City. Proceeds from the Governor's Dinner benefit student-athlete scholarships at the University of Nevada.

A day after NBA basketball player Jason Collins came out as gay to Sports Illustrated, a former NFL coach and an Oakland Raider record-setting placekicker believe the NFL is ready to accept a gay football player.

"I don't think the NFL is going to have a problem," said Herm Edwards, former Kansas City Chiefs head coach, now an NFL analyst for ESPN. "Is there going to be a vote of confidence in the locker room? For some of the younger and immature players, but the veteran players — they get it."

Colin Kaepernick or Alex Smith? That is the question that Jim Harbaugh must answer, and answer for good before next week’s game in St. Louis. It does not serve a locker room well when there is a rift or questions left unanswered. Inconsistency can damage a team’s chemistry, and at this point that is the last thing San Francisco needs. Yes, the 49ers appear to have a problem that every team would love to have. They have two quarterbacks that are very capable of winning, but only one should be the everyday starter, and the team deserves to know it.

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) - As bad as Carson Palmer's three-interception debut with the Oakland Raiders looked, he views it as a valuable teaching tool.Palmer took the field Tuesday for his first practi...

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By Nevada Wolfpack.com
RENO, Nev. — San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh will serve as the keynote speaker at the 43rd annual Governor’s Dinner on Friday, July 8 at the Governor’s Mansion in Carson City.

While the Carson City Board of Supervisors are on track to ante up $75,000 this week to move the Nugget Project to the next phase, I'm finding that the more I dig into the details, the more the numbers don't seem to add up.

Specifically, I'm looking into part of the project that calls for getting three state agencies to lease space in this proposed 177,000 square foot development in downtown Carson City. I use the word "proposed" in a very loose sense here, since it's likely to change once P3 Development begins the real process of feasibility planning for this project. In fact, as I am writing this, there's a new story out from Northern Nevada Business Weekly quoting the developer that the office portion would be 175,000 square feet, with an additional 50,000 square feet of retail space, to go along with the 60,000 square feet for the library/business incubator/digital media lab portion of the project.