By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
Just about every story on LVSportsBiz,com documents news in the crossover category of sports, business and stadiums. But occasionally, I drop in a behind-the-scenes look at LVSportsBiz, which has drawn 680,000 readers since our launch in June 2017. In our 50th month of operation in July, LVSportsBiz.com shattered our monthly user traffic record by 25 percent and in August we’re on pace to break last month’s reader traffic record.
Today, I feel like a proud papa in telling you that one of our photographers, J. Tyge O’Donnell, was hired by the Las Vegas Raiders for Raiders games and events at Allegiant Stadium here in Las Vegas.
I expect a lot of our photographers because LVSportsBiz.com covers business people and sports venues as much as we do reporting on the action on the field, court or ice.
And Tyge was up to the job and then some.
His quality photography for LVSportsBiz.com helped land him a job for the Raiders, so when I see Tyge at Allegiant Stadium Saturday he will be wearing a shirt with the Raiders logo. The Raiders photos in this story are Tyge’s first photos on the job from Sunday’s team practice with fans inside Allegiant Stadium.
Lucky for LVSportsBiz readers, photographer Daniel Clark will return to duty for us to photograph Saturday’s historic day in Las Vegas where the Raiders will play a game inside the stadium with fans for the first time.
Tyge’s dad would be so proud. Tyge’s father was a photographer, too. Joe O’Donnell, a U.S. military photographer, was among the first photographers to document the aftermath, death and destruction of Japan in the Second World War. As an Army Air Corp photographer, the elder O’Donnell came to Japan in September 1945 after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In November 2019, Tyge met the Pope in Japan in a ceremony because Pope Francis has cherished the haunting World War II photo work of Tyge’s dad, Joe.
Tyge will be returning to photo action Saturday for the Raiders, while Dan will be re-joining me for our LVSportsBiz.com coverage for the Raiders-Seahawks exhibition game.
Tyge is not saying good-bye to LVSportsBiz.com. He will be returning to photograph Vegas Golden Knights games, UNLV sports, and sportsbiz stories involving the Speedway, Aces, NFR, UFC etc here in Las Vegas.
See you tomorrow.