Gov. Steve Sisolak with VGK fans in 2018 in downtown Las Vegas.

Meet Clark County Commissioner/Unofficial Sports Commissioner Steve Sisolak

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com   There were 10,000 Vegas Golden Knights fans at a downtown FanFest at Fremont Street Experience Sunday and the feisty upbeat crowd included Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak in his Golden Knights jersey posing for photos with fans. Sisolak told LVSportsBiz.com at FanFest he was attending strictly as a fan.   At monthly Raiders stadium board meetings, the audience includes labor, community and business leaders, including Sisolak who typically sits in the back left of the county government chambers.   Last summer at a Local Laborers 872 union picnic supporting the Raiders stadium in North Las Vegas, Sisolak was wearing a Raiders jersey and spoke at the rally. That was after Sisolak announced a Raid
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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.