Raiders/Aces owner Mark Davis at the Allegiant Stadium event that invited fans into the stadium for the first time. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com
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Raiders Owner Mark Davis Makes Hall Of Fame: The Southern Nevada Hall Of Fame

Alan Snel
Aces/Raiders owner Mark Davis

 

Aces owner Mark Davis

 

Raiders owner Mark Davis watches team president Sandra Douglass Morgan shakes hands with Raiders player Josh Jacobs. Photo: J. Tyge O’Donnell

 

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — During the Super Week that seems awfully quiet, here are some Las Vegas sportsbiz news nuggets to chew on while you ponder the state of journalism in this country.

Raiders/Aces owner Mark Davis will be one of five inductees into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame. Davis built the $2 billion Raiders stadium project thanks to $759 million in government assistance and has seen his Raiders franchise soar to the $8 billion range after he moved the Raiders from Oakland to Las Vegas in 2020.

With that type of franchise value, I would be laughing, too:

Aces/Raiders owner Mark Davis

Joining Davis in the local Hall of Fame will be Tim Grgurich, Ryan Moore and Mark Warkentien. Cliff Findlay will be honored as the inaugural recipient of the Legacy Award. Including this induction class, the Hall of Fame now consists of 137 members.

Fan has her hand signed by Mark Davis before a Raiders preseason game in 2022.

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Next week the media are invited to something the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix is calling the “Cookie Pit Stop”—a VIP media day to taste the new Girl Scouts Exploremores cookie, see a life-size cookie box reveal, and witness the Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada’s entrepreneurial skills in action.

F1 Las Vegas had a few PR issues to deal with in grand prix Year 1 in 2023 when the car race disrupted life on the Strip like no other event. But with the Girl Scouts on their side, F1 has its hand in the cookie jar of improved community relations in Las Vegas.

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You cannot stop the pickleball growth in Las Vegas and the U.S. I don’t think you can hope to contain it either. LVSportsBiz.com received another press release on another pickleball development.

This time, it’s a dedicated indoor pickleball club coming to Henderson in April. It will be at 1221 West Warm Springs Road and this new “Dill Dinkers” club will sits across from Mershops Galleria at Sunset and is accessible from I-515.  The club will be owned and operated by Greg Louie and Brigette Farwaha. Louie and Farwaha, Dill Dinkers Regional Developers of Las Vegas, want to welcome pickleball players of all skill levels. This after the city of Las Vegas recently cut a ribbon on a new pickleball complex.
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Well, the party is over for the LA Bowl at SoFi Stadium. UNLV will have a tender place in its heart for the LA Bowl after UNLV defeated California 24-13 in the 2024 Art of Sport LA Bowl Hosted By Gronk at SoFi Stadium Dec. 2024. This victory was the Rebels’ first bowl win since 2000 and secured their first 11-win season in 40 years.

 

 

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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