Residents in the Las Vegas Valley have had a front row seat to the blossoming sports scene as more professional teams have flocked to Las Vegas.

The Raiders moved to a new, $2 billion stadium in Las Vegas last year, hoping to build a football dynasty. Things haven’t gone as they’d hoped.

Sports viewers are attuned to seeing advertisements in the form of commercials or plastered on courtside signs. But in recent years, sponsorships have become intertwined with NBA players themselves, following athletes up and down the court.

Every ten years, we get counted. The Census Bureau sets out to see how many people live in the United States, and in the process, it also gathers information about age, race, gender, income and a myriad of other important details.

The intercollegiate athletics community is digesting the Supreme Court ruling that rejected restrictions on compensating student athletes.

A Supreme Court ruling Monday could have long-term implications on the debate over how and when athletes at UNLV and other universities can make money.

Growing up, it was common in my region of the United States to use the word “guys” with the second person plural, as in: “How are you guys?” I didn’t think twice about using it until I learned the history of the word “guy” and considered what it meant when used for groups that included women and nonbinary people.

A series of CarMax advertisements featuring WNBA superstar Sue Bird, which recently went viral on social media, uses humor and misdirection to elevate female athletes who have faced decades of underrepresentation in media. Bird’s accomplishments on the court put her among the best players to ever play professional basketball.