Not since Michael Corleone offered to buy out Moe Greene has more commotion been made in Las Vegas. Mark Davis, determined to be taken seriously in spite of the ginger bowl haircut, has pledged $500 million toward a proposed new NFL stadium near the strip, in order to get the ball rolling toward the Oakland Raiders moving to the desert.
Davis’ exploratory missions to Vegas, San Antonio and even Mexico City have been widely considered leverage moves to get Oakland to build him a new stadium. But a group of Vegas backers — among them, apparently, David Beckham — are hoping to build a $1.