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In Las Vegas’ Gentrified Sports Market, UNLV Football, Basketball Pitching Affordable Deals

Alan Snel

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — As this sports market has matured into a market that hosts major league teams to go along with its past of car racing, rodeos, UFC and boxing, the gentrification of the sports market has grown, too.

NFL Raiders and NHL Golden Knights tickets are easily more than $100, while annual one-off events like the Formula 1 race pitch tickets that cost in the thousands of dollars.

That’s where UNLV comes in, along with teams like the volleyball Thrill at Lee’s Family Forum arena in Henderson and the minor league baseball Aviators at Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin.

Aviators at home.

UNLV head coach Kevin Kruger. Photo credit: J. Tyge O’Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com

It didn’t take UNLV long to enlist new head football coach Dan Mullen for radio commercials for UNLV football games for 2025. UNLV is hawking a $195 special for the team’s six home games at Allegiant Stadium where you can watch a game for about $33 a ticket.

Meanwhile, UNLV has a four-pack for Saturday games for parents to bring their kids that costs only $52. The deal includes four tickets and four chicken finger baskets for Saturday games like today’s UNLV 66-53 win over UC Riverside. The Runnin’ Rebels won six of their 11 pre-conference play games and host Fresno State Dec. 28.

The Thrill said tickets start at $15 and the women’s pro volleyball team opens its 28-match regular season by hosting the Grand Rapids Rise Jan. 10.

 

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.

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