UNLV’s Oral History Research Center tackles the history of sports in Las Vegas [Video]

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — UNLV’S Oral History Research Center is embarking on a project tracking the history of sports in Las Vegas.

“It’s kind of hard not to think about sports when you think about Las Vegas right now,” said Oral History Research Center Project Manager Stefani Evans.

Fresh off of the second year of the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, Evans says it’s been years to get sports to the forefront in Las Vegas.

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“A lot of this was work behind the scenes by people at MGM, people at Caesars, people who worked and worked,” she said.

She says they worked with a number of different major sports leagues to make it happen, and it came to fruition in 2017 with the Vegas Golden Knights starting their first season.

From there, it was the Las Vegas Aces and the Las Vegas Raiders with the Oakland Athletics set to …