Las Vegas Pays Honor On A Difficult Day, October One


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By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

The memories are painful. It’s four years since a madman/gunman with guns and bullets killed 58 people and injured 500 others in this country’s worst mass shooting.

It was Oct. 1, 2017 on the Strip at a country music festival being held outdoors on a Sunday night.

Today in Las Vegas, we stop and pay our respects.

There was a sunrise ceremony at the Clark County government center to remember the 58 people killed at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Two others who were wounded Oct. 1 have since died.

Oct. 1 will always be interwoven into the legacy of the Vegas Golden Knights, which played their first ever regular season home game only nine days after Oct. 1.


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The Golden Knights are holding a blood drive at its team base in Summerlin at City National Arena to remember Oct. 1

LVSportsBiz.com will be at tonight’s Golden Knights vs Los Angeles Kings exhibition game at T-Mobile Arena where this painful anniversary will also be remembered.

 

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.