Las Vegas Stadium Authority Meeting As Funding Questions Loom

The Las Vegas Stadium Authority today is scheduled to meet publicly for the first time since Las Vegas Sands Chair & CEO Sheldon Adelson "pulled out of the deal" to help fund a stadium for the Raiders. The meeting comes as "questions remain over the funding for the facility" (AP, 2/9).

The current stadium plan calls for UNLV football to share the venue, but if the Raiders' move to Las Vegas falls through, UNLV still would have "some options" under legislation passed last October. If the Stadium Authority is "unsuccessful in wooing a team and getting the 65,000 seat facility built," UNLV President Len Jessup has "three months from the time that effort ends to determine if he wants a facility just for the Rebels" (SBNATION.com, 2/7).