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This past season, Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr solidified his status as one of the elite passers in the NFL. What Carr did this week for a stranded motorist solidified his status as one of the elite people in the NFL.

A member of the 1980-1981 Oakland Raiders Super Bowl winning team told Breitbart News at the Conservative Political Action Conference that it is time for African-Americans to reclaim their traditional conservatism. “Today’s generation has been trained to think differently from my generation. We would stand for the flag in a heartbeat—because we realized the opportunities we had,” said Burgess Owens on Thursday.

The 2016 NFL season became known for the intermingling of football and politics. So, it should come as no surprise that only one week into 2017, that unholy alliance once again reared its ugly head.

Not that he necessarily has a say in the matter, but Charles Barkley staunchly opposes the Raiders relocation to Las Vegas.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Oakland Raiders lead the NFL with seven players selected for the Pro Bowl.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Charcandrick West was playing for Joe McKnight. Tyreek Hill was playing for the fans chanting his name. The Chiefs defense was playing for its injured leader. Everybody on the Kansas City sideline was playing for control of the AFC West.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Derek Carr threw for 260 yards and two touchdowns to rally the Oakland Raiders to their biggest comeback in 16 years with a 38-24 victory over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.

Derek Carr woke up a struggling Oakland offense by throwing two touchdown passes in the fourth quarter as the Raiders capped a successful trip to Mexico with a 27-20 victory over the Houston Texans on Monday night.

When in a new and exciting place, vacationers put on their finery to venture out from the protective lair of their hotel, sample the local cuisine, and otherwise fully embrace the experience of interfacing with a different culture. The NFL told the Houston Texans to do just the opposite in advance of their Mexico City trip to play the Oakland Raiders on Monday Night Football.

NBA Hall of Famer and TNT analyst Charles Barkley made an appearance Monday on CBS’s “The NFL Today,” and the basketball legend ripped into the proposed bill that will provide $750 million in hotel tax money toward a new stadium

The Nevada legislature approved a $1.17 billion bill to fund a football stadium and improvements to the Las Vegas Convention Center on Friday.

The deal to build a new domed stadium to entice the Oakland Raiders to move to Las Vegas is only one step away from final approval.

As the possibility of the Oakland Raiders moving from California to Nevada seems more likely every day, backers of a new Sin City stadium now demand an incredible $750 million from taxpayers. They call the figure “not negotiable” in discussions with local politicians.

In another sign that NFL football may be coming to Sin City, the Oakland Raiders now pursue trademark protection for the “Las Vegas Raiders,” reports say.

For those wagering in Vegas that the NFL Oakland Raiders are on their way to Sin City anytime soon, they might want to hedge their bets.

Not since 1985 has San Antonio enjoyed a professional football team within its immediate media market. If the Oakland Raiders have their way, the Alamo City could be competing with Las Vegas for Texas’ third franchise, at the expense of local taxpayers according to a Breitbart Texas interview with Stanford University economics professor Roger Noll.

Only days after the National Hockey League awarded Las Vegas its first major professional team, the debate over how Sin City would pay for a stadium for its first football team resulted in the largest taxpayer subsidy ever proposed for an NFL team.

Talk of the Oakland Raiders moving to Las Vegas is heating up.

The mayor of Las Vegas predicts that the Oakland Raiders would relocate to Sin City unless the deal is somehow mishandled.

With several NFL teams seeking to move from one city to the another, some are now wondering if the Oakland Raiders might be headed to Las Vegas. And despite past bias against Sin City, a new memo from the NFL seemingly hints that the league has not ruled out the possibility of a Raiders move to Vegas.

Billionaire owner of the Las Vegas Sands casino company, Sheldon Adelson, announced on Thursday that he wants to build a $1 billion domed stadium on the UNLV campus and will also meet with Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis.

With the unlikelihood the Oakland Raiders will make their home in Los Angeles new overtures by a San Antonio businessmen aim to bring the storied NFL franchise to the Alamo City.

The St. Louis Rams, Oakland Raiders, and San Diego Chargers all filed papers with the NFL on Monday to relocate to Los Angeles.

On Thursday, Bob McNair, the owner of the Houston Texans, and one of the members of the NFL’s Committee on Los Angeles Opportunities, canceled a scheduled meeting with San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer after McNair issued statements on Monday that insulted local government in San Diego.

Although the NFL has scheduled a special meeting on the Los Angeles relocation situation for January, Rams owner Stan Kroenke charges ahead, offering a deal to the San Diego Chargers or Oakland Raiders to share a new $1.86 billion stadium in Inglewood, California.

California Governor Jerry Brown is inserting himself into the highly contentious San Diego Chargers stadium fight, expediting California’s laborious environmental review process, giving a semblance of hope that the team could stay in its current city if it agrees to a newly proposed stadium. The team’s ownership has been pushing hard for a move to the Los Angeles market.

NFL owners indicated Tuesday that they expect one or more football teams to occupy the Los Angeles market as soon as 2016.

Oakland Raiders rookie wide receiver Amari Cooper got a nice welcome to the NFL in the Raiders’ season opener against the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday. Bengals defensive back Adam “Pacman” Jones ripped off Cooper’s helmet and shoved his head down

Former Oakland Raiders CEO and first ever female CEO in NFL history Amy Trask wrote via The MMQB that she wants Sarah Thomas, who is set to become the NFL’s first ever female referee in the upcoming 2015 season, to be

Uncertainty looms in the future of the Chargers and Raiders football organizations as the two teams negotiate over stadium plans that could either allow them to remain in their current home cities or join in sharing one stadium in Los Angeles.

Representatives from the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders took the first step to erecting an NFL stadium in Carson, California on Wednesday, filing a ballot initiative with the city to shift zoning ordinances that would clear the way for a 70,000 seat stadium in the greater Los Angeles area.

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer is the only Republican mayor of a major city in America–and his popularity is soaring, with an approval rating of 61%. However, fighting over the future of the San Diego Chargers, the city’s beloved NFL franchise, indicates that Faulconer’s popularity could shift with the team’s fate.

Los Angeles may see professional football once again, as the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders announced plans to build and share a $1.7 billion stadium in Carson if publicly-financed deals to stay in their respective cities fall through.

A new bill introduced Thursday in the California Assembly would provide cheerleaders of professional sports franchises with employee benefits and a minimum wage guarantee.