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Book To Be Released In November

A story of trauma in Florida and recovery in Las Vegas, with a little help from LVSportsBiz.com and the Golden Knights. Cover helmet photo by Daniel Clark and cover design by Mark Antonuccio.

 

By ALAN SNEL

LVSportsBiz.com

 

The sticky, pasty feeling below my skin above my knee is still there and I doubt it will ever go away.

 

I’m not very speedy on a bicycle and my lower back still seizes up now and then.

 

I’ve put a crash that involved a distracted motorist smashing into me from behind in Florida in early March 2017 behind me.

 

But physical trauma never is erased.

 

It’s a journey of recovery, healing, persistence and purpose and I documented this passage in a new book I am releasing in four to six weeks titled, Long Road Back To Las Vegas: How Las Vegas and the Golden Knights healed a journalist’s wounds.

 

The back cover. Mark Antonuccio with a terrific design and Daniel Clark with the bottom photo.

 

I’ve written the back story of LVSportsBiz.com and how my survival at the hands of a distracted motorist who was not even given a traffic ticket for slamming his car into me was the catalyst behind the long road back to Las Vegas.

 

 

The launch of LVSportsBiz.com, which included the coverage of the Vegas Golden Knights’ you-could-not-believe inaugural season, helped serve as an emotional anchor as I tried to move ahead and not look back at a violent crash caused by a motorist that nearly killed me.

 

The book message is simple: if I can cope with and recover from a physical trauma so can you.

 

I’ll have more details as the book is published during the next month. So please stay tuned on social media.

 

And don’t forget to read LVSportsBiz.com and be alert when operating a motorized vehicle.

 

 

 

 

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.
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