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Tip of the Cap To Athletics’ Baseball PR Staff For Telling It Like It Is

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The A’s have suffered through a brutal losing stretch during the past

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When A $750 Million Public Subsidy Is Not Enough: Raiders Seek $75 Million In Public Money For $158 Million North Allegiant Stadium Project

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer LAS VEGAS, Nevada — It must be nice to be a business that is valued at

A’s owner John Fisher (Photo: Hugh Byrne)

Raiders/Aces owner Mark Davis, LVCVA CEO Steve Hill, former Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (left to right) (Photo: Hugh Byrne)

Raiders president Sandra Douglass Morgan (left) and Aces president Nikki Fargas (right) (Photo: Hugh Byrne)

A’s president Marc Badain (Photo: Hugh Byrne)

Raiders minority owner Tom Brady (Photo: Hugh Byrne)

Golden Knights owner Bill Foley (Photo: Hugh Byrne)

Sandy Dean, A’s executive (Photo: Hugh Byrne)

Sandra Douglass Morgan (Photo: Hugh Byrne)

Spectacular catch in USC vs LSU game at Allegiant Stadium (Photo: Hugh Byrne)

Raiders’ Maxx Crosby (Photo: Hugh Byrne)

Aces star A’ja Wilson (Photo: Hugh Byrne)

Vegas Golden Knights vs St. Louis Blues (Photo: Hugh Byrne)

LVCVA CEO Steve Hill (Photo by Hugh Byrne)

Vegas Golden Knights team president of business operations John Penhollow (Photo by Hugh Byrne)

UNLV Athletic Director Erick Harper (Photo by Hugh Byrne)

Applied Analysis' Jeremy Aguero, A's consultant — Applied Analysis’ Jeremy Aguero, A’s consultant (Photo by Hugh Byrne)

Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo (Photo by Hugh Byrne)

UFC bossman Dana White (Photo by Hugh Byrne)

F1 Las Vegas race president Emily Prazer (photo by Hugh Byrne)

July 5, 2021

Alan Snel, veteran journalist and LVSportsBiz.com publisher. ASnel@LVSportsBiz.com.

LVSPORTSBIZ.COM, launched June 2017: We are a digital magazine providing market-leading news, intelligence, enterprise and breaking news on Las Vegas’ sports/stadium industry. Our stories are quoted nationally and we set the sportsbiz news agenda in Las Vegas. Publisher Alan Snel has reported on the business of sports and stadiums in Denver, South Florida, New York, Seattle and Tampa besides Las Vegas and is considered a national authority on the topic. And like the Vegas Golden Knights, LVSportsBiz.com is celebrating its tenth birthday in 2027.

Click here for Alan’s recent appearance on KNPR radio in Las Vegas.

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Another day, another NBA arena idea in Las Vegas: During a quarterly earnings report call, VICI Properties execs said they’re teaming up with Caesars Entertainment on an idea to build an NBA arena behind three hotel-casinos in the center of the Strip just north of Flamingo Road.

Union deal at Allegiant Stadium: The Culinary Union announces tentative agreement on union contract reached with Oak View Group for 730+ cooks, servers, bartenders, & concessions workers at Raiders-run Allegiant Stadium.

F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, Sphere extend deal: F1, Sphere announces new five-year agreement that extends their partnership through 2030, with Las Vegas Grand Prix utilizing Sphere’s exterior campus each year during race week.

The F1 track as it nears the Sphere. Photo credit: Hugh Byrne/LVSportsBiz.com

UNLV’s sports conference — the Mountain West — has a new slogan and “refreshed brand identity.” Built Bold is the “new defining tagline.”

LVSportsBiz.com coverage of Athletics stadium project on Strip in Las Vegas.

A’s owner John Fisher in Las Vegas

New A’s team president Marc Badain

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LVCVA spends $8.25 million on A’s sponsorship

Big League Sports With Small Town Politics

Man of Many Hats

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May 24, 2021

LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel is a nationally-known bicycle rights leader and bicycle travel writer.

Alan focuses on reducing road violence and has asked government to enforce road safety laws, design better roads for bicyclists and walkers not just motorists, educate drivers, install more penalties for reckless motorists and lower speed limits.

Here are Alan’s travel story samples, literary adventures based on Alan’s expansive and curious approach to reporting sports-business news and a bicycle life:

Let’s Pedal Zion National Park

Bicycling Bristlecone Trail At 9,000 Feet

Biking magical Seattle and the Northwest

Bicycling the Tour de Stadiums of Las Vegas

Las Vegas bicyclist struck by bullet during memorial ride

Incomparable Grand Canyon by bike

LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel has also written two books: Long Road Back To Las Vegas and Bicycle Man. Purchase Long Road Back To Las Vegas on Amazon and contact Alan to buy Bicycle Man at asnel@LVSportsBiz.com.

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