No announced plans for proof of vaccination for Raiders, Knights games

Sports venues successful Las Vegas person not announced immoderate plans that would necessitate fans to person impervious of vaccination to be events.

This comes aft Thursday’s announcement by AEG that its owned and operated venues and the Smith Center would necessitate spectators to person impervious of inoculation successful bid to be indoor events.

The Review-Journal polled country pro and assemblage teams and recovered nary are acceptable to marque immoderate requirements of fans beyond the guidelines offered by the Center for Disease Control.

AEG is affiliated with Allegiant Stadium, wherever the NFL Raiders play, and helped to physique T-Mobile Arena, location of the NHL Golden Knights. However, AEG said its mandate does not use to those venues since they don’t run them. It said the determination is near up to the teams.

The Golden Knights, Raiders and minor-league shot Aviators did not respond to a petition for comment.

The Raiders unfastened the preseason connected Saturday against the Seattle Seahawks astatine Allegiant. An NFL spokesperson connected Thursday said determination is nary leaguewide mandate connected vaccination impervious arsenic a request to be games.

“The wellness and information of everyone successful the NFL household – fans, players, unit – is our superior focus,” NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy said successful a text. “As we did past year, the league and clubs volition proceed to travel the latest guidance from local, authorities and national nationalist wellness authorities, including the CDC, with whom we are successful regular contact.”

The NFL volition play a afloat slate of preseason games implicit the adjacent 3 weeks, with the regular play opening the 2nd week of September.

“We are readying connected afloat stadiums crossed the league this twelvemonth but volition stay flexible and adaptable arsenic necessary,” McCarthy said. “Like past season, determination whitethorn beryllium antithetic instrumentality experiences depending connected the existent concern successful the section markets moving successful conjunction with nationalist wellness authorities.”

The NBA Summer League, which lasts done Tuesday, has required impervious of vaccinations for reporters who wished to be postgame quality conferences astatine the Thomas & Mack Center oregon Cox Pavilion this week. However, nary specified mandate has been made for fans attending the event.

A UNLV spokesperson said schoolhouse officials haven’t made immoderate decisions astir vaccination requirements fits its games astatine Allegiant Stadium oregon Thomas & Mack Center, but said the requirements volition astir apt beryllium successful enactment with state, region and field guidelines. UNLV’s archetypal shot crippled is successful 3 weeks.

One assemblage added the vaccine request Thursday: Tulane became the archetypal FBS programme to necessitate that fans amusement impervious of COVID-19 vaccination oregon a antagonistic trial to be games this fall.

A spokesperson for the WNBA Aces, who resume their play Sunday aft the Olympic break, said determination are nary vaccine requirements for attending games astatine Mandalay Bay’s Michelob Ultra Arena, but spectators indispensable deterioration masks.

Las Vegas Motor Speedway spokesperson Jeff Motley said the way volition not beryllium requiring vaccination cards for now, though that is taxable to alteration should the concern warrant for the Sept. 24-26 NASCAR South Point 400 weekend.

Lights FC proprietor Brett Lashbrook doesn’t expect his USL franchise, which plays astatine Cashman Field connected Saturday, to alteration immoderate information guidelines.

“As an outdoor venue, we volition travel immoderate the section wellness territory officials and authorities officials archer america to do,” helium said. “We’re not looking to bash thing supra and beyond that.”

Mark Anderson, Vincent Bonsignore, Sam Gordon, Ben Gotz and Ron Kantowski contributed to this report.