LVSportsBiz’s 2nd Anniversary Podcasts: Killingsworth, Lashbrook, White and Epstein During Next 7 Days

To celebrate LVSportsBiz.com’s second anniversary in June, LVSB is holding a series of four podcasts with key sports-business leaders in Las Vegas that will stream live on our news site and on Facebook starting Friday. The four podcasts are presented by Adore Oil. Here’s our lineup:

 

Friday June 7, 1-2 PM: Vegas Golden Knights Chief Marketing Officer Brian Killingsworth. The Golden Knights’ retail and jersey sales are among the tops of the NHL and overseeing the VGK merchandise sales and marketing messages is Killingsworth, a sports-marketing professional who also worked for the Tampa Bay Bucs, St. Louis Rams and Tampa Bay Rays.

Killingsworth

 

ADD: Our podcast with Killingsworth. Click here to listen.

 

 

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Monday June 10, 7-8 PM: Las Vegas Lights FC owner Brett Lashbrook, a professional soccer advocate who will be involved in possibly selling the Lights to a new owner who wants to build a 25,000-seat soccer stadium at the downtown Las Vegas 62-acre Cashman Center site.

Lashbrook

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Tuesday June 11, 6-7 PM: UFC President Dana White, the ringmaster of the Las Vegas-based MMA organization that sold for more than $4 billion in 2016.

White

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June 13, 4-5 PM: UFC Chief Operating Officer Lawrence Epstein, who oversees UFC’s business operations and worldwide expansion plans such as a new training center in China.

Epstein

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.