Column: Can Vegas win a longshot bet on the Raiders? (Yahoo Sports)

Pair one of the world's richest men with a team eager to escape Oakland and, who knows, even the most hardcore NFL owners might be persuaded to give this gambling city a try. Actually a couple of them, if you consider the NFL's longtime refusal to even admit that Las Vegas exists. The league that just last year told Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo he couldn't run a fantasy football convention in Las Vegas because holding an event at a property owned by a casino was against NFL rules.