Monday Vegas SportsBiz Roundup: Tourists Watch Baseball At Las Vegas Ballpark, BYU Uniform Reveal For Saturday’s BYU-Notre Dame Game At Allegiant Stadium, USA vs Canada At Dollar Loan Center In December
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer
BYU’s football team combined forces with former UFC fighter Forrest Griffin and Las Vegas magician Mat Franco for its uniform reveal five days before the BYU Cougars plat Notre Dame at Allegiant Stadium.
The uni and helmet design has a two-tone look as BYU’s royal blue color gets a strong dash of black to the look:
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Charged with attracting tourists to Las Vegas, the local public tourism agency — the LVCVA — gave $80 million to Howard Hughes Corporation in the form of a naming rights deal for a minor league baseball park that attracts mostly locals.
How did Howard Hughes Corporation, Summerlin’s master developer, pull off that magic trick?
Well, this past weekend you actually had out-of-town tourists visiting Las Vegas Ballpark for the Triple-A baseball championship.
After the Durham Bulls defeated the Nashville Sounds to win the International League championship, Durham then beat the Pacific Coast League champs, the Reno Aces, to win the Triple-A crown.
Then, the Durham Bulls jumped into the pool beyond the centerfield wall. Photo credits for these pictures go to Tom Donoghue.
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The Dollar Loan Center arena in Henderson, built by VGK owner Bill Foley, has a popular hockey game scheduled for December.
The United States and Canadian women’s hockey teams will play each other on Dec. 15 at the 6,000-seat arena that is home to the Henderson Silver Knights of the American Hockey League, the Vegas Knight Hawks of the Indoor Football League and the NBA G League Ignite.
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Speaking of hockey, the NHL will be debuting virtual TV ads on the boards at arenas. There already TV virtual ads behind the goals and on the ice during broadcasts.
Now, they will be on the boards. The NHL has a techy name for it: Digitally Enhanced Dasherboards or DED.
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Street League Skateboarding, a professional skateboarding series, is coming with the world’s best street skaters to Las Vegas Friday and Saturday.
For the first time in UFC Apex history, the Octagon will be swapped for a skate plaza as SLS makes its way back to Las Vegas for the first time since 2010. The final U.S. stop, the invite-only Las Vegas event will determine the top four skaters in total points who will qualify directly into the SLS Super Crown Final, while the remaining skaters will battle for the remaining four spots in an LCQ. The Apex building is next to UFC headquarters right off the 215 in the southwest Las Vegas valley.
In Las Vegas, an elite field of over 40 men and women will compete in the prelims on Friday, with eight advancing to the final on Saturday. In both the prelim and final, skaters will be scored in an innovative new format based on two runs plus four tricks.
