UNLV's Robert Rippee is averaging an interview a week because esports are so hot right now.

Las Vegas Cornering Growing Esports Market

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com   Robert Rippee is a popular guy with reporters these days at UNLV.   Rippee, a former Las Vegas Sands Corp. marketing executive and now director of the Hospitality Lab and esports Lab at UNLV's International Gaming Institute, has carved out a niche as the go-to guy for esports comments, perspectives and all-around good quips and sound bites on the growing esports business world in Las Vegas.   There's much to say, from the Luxor (with Allied Esports) transforming a nightclub into an esports arena to a prominent Las Vegas-based esports team called Rogue being sold recently to the Downtown Grand sports book taking bets on esports competitions.   "We're the entertainment capital of the world. Where else would you go for esports,?" Rippee asked.   Espor
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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.