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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
North Bend/Coos Bay, Oregon — It’s a wrap Sunday night on the Oregon coast, a raw, beautiful and forested section of the country where I found refuge to bike, hike and re-charge batteries to continue reporting on Las Vegas’ sports industry growth.
The road trip actually began in Oakland for two Athletics games at the Coliseum a week ago on July 4 and 5 before I set up base at a pleasant Airbnb on a tree-packed hill just north of Oregon’s Bay area of Coos Bay and Noth Bend. Besides drawing tourists to state parks out on the ocean, the Coos Bay/North Bend area is also a serious fishing and logging market.
Here’s a view from the Airbnb street where I stayed.
The fishing village of Charleston where a Coast Guard station is based is a gateway from Coos Bay to the scenic state parks.
After enjoying the roller-coaster Pacific Coast Highway 101 views, I settled into Coos Bay for the weekend.
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.