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Bicycle Stories: The Great Escape From Las Vegas Heat Wave To Oregon Coast

July 14, 2023July 14, 2023 Alan Snel

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Monday’s NBA Summer League Attendance Checked In At 12,356; Tuesday’s Activities Include Technology Expo

July 11, 2023July 11, 2023 Alan Snel Victor Wembanyama

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer Wemby mania helped create three sellouts of 17,500 each day for opening day

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Las Vegas Already Feels Like An NBA Town — Just Without A Team (For Now)

July 9, 2023July 9, 2023 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Tim Leiweke, Wilt Chamberlain

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer It’s the buzz of the NBA Summer League, where hobnobbing, schmoozing and pro

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NBA Summer League Starts With Three Straight Sellouts In Las Vegas; NBA Tech Launchpad Program Names Seven Companies

July 8, 2023July 8, 2023 Alan Snel

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer The NBA Summer League broke a new attendance barrier this weekend. For the

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Before Las Vegas’ Major League Team Hype There Was UFC, Which Celebrates 30 Years Of Cage Fights, PPV Deals, High Drama With International Week; UFC 290 Has $9.75 Million Gate; 19,204 Attendance

July 8, 2023July 8, 2023 Alan Snel Alexander Volkanovski, Chuck Liddell, Dana White, Lorenzo Fertitta, Yair Rodriguez

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Cassandra Cousineau, LVSportsBiz.com UFC-MMA Writer There isn’t a city in America experiencing the kind of intense growth

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NBA Summer League Draws $600,000 Sponsorship From Las Vegas Events, LVCVA’s Events Arm; Wembanyama’s Pro Debut Helps Draw 17,500 Sellout To Thomas & Mack Center Friday

July 7, 2023July 7, 2023 Alan Snel Albert Hall, Jerry West, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Victor Wembanyama, Warren LeGarie

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer Las Vegas Events — the LVCVA’s nonprofit events arm — has sponsored the

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Weekend Sports Gambler: Big Names to Battle for Featherweight Title at UFC 290

July 7, 2023 Alan Snel Alexander Volkanovski, Becky Hammon

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Dan Behringer, LVSportsBiz.com Sports Betting Writer Expect a crowd at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday night. But it

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NBA Makes Strong Presence Known In Las Vegas During Next Two Weeks; Is New NBA Team Coming To Vegas Soon?

July 6, 2023July 7, 2023 Alan Snel Adam Silver

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer While the Vegas Golden Knights were busy winning the Stanley Cup and the

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Las Vegas Aces’ Strong Second Half Propels WNBA Champs To 89-82 Win Over Dallas Before Sellout Crowd Of 10,177 Wednesday

July 5, 2023July 5, 2023 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Arike Ogunbowale, Becky Hammon, Chelsea Gray, Jackie Young, Natasha Howard

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Story by Cassandra Cousineau Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell The powerful Las Vegas Aces

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Nevada Teachers Union Takes Swing At Athletics Stadium Subsidy Bill With PAC That Plans Litigation, Voter Campaign In Effort To Reverse $380 Million Ballpark Subsidy

July 2, 2023July 2, 2023 Alan Snel Alexander Marks, Jeremy Aguero, John Fisher, Steve Hill

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer The Strip, where it’s OK to suspend reality because entertainment is rule one,

July 5, 2021

Alan Snel, veteran journalist and LVSportsBiz.com publisher. ASnel@LVSportsBiz.com.

LVSPORTSBIZ.COM, launched June 2017: We are a digital magazine providing market-leading news, intelligence, enterprise and breaking news on Las Vegas’ sports/stadium industry. Our stories are quoted nationally and we set the sportsbiz news agenda in Las Vegas. Publisher Alan Snel has reported on the business of sports and stadiums in Denver, South Florida, New York, Seattle and Tampa besides Las Vegas and is considered a national authority on the topic.

Click here for Alan’s recent appearance on KNPR radio in Las Vegas.

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Union deal at Allegiant Stadium: The Culinary Union announces tentative agreement on union contract reached with Oak View Group for 730+ cooks, servers, bartenders, & concessions workers at Raiders-run Allegiant Stadium.

F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, Sphere extend deal: F1, Sphere announces new five-year agreement that extends their partnership through 2030, with Las Vegas Grand Prix utilizing Sphere’s exterior campus each year during race week.

The F1 track as it nears the Sphere. Photo credit: Hugh Byrne/LVSportsBiz.com

UNLV’s sports conference — the Mountain West — has a new slogan and “refreshed brand identity.” Built Bold is the “new defining tagline.”

LVSportsBiz.com coverage of Athletics stadium project on Strip in Las Vegas.

A’s owner John Fisher in Las Vegas

New A’s team president Marc Badain

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LVCVA spends $8.25 million on A’s sponsorship

Big League Sports With Small Town Politics

Man of Many Hats

Athletics’ long, strange journey for new ballpark

How Deal Was Made For A’s Ballpark On Strip

May 24, 2021

LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel is a nationally-known bicycle rights leader and bicycle travel writer.

Alan focuses on reducing road violence and has asked government to enforce road safety laws, design better roads for bicyclists and walkers not just motorists, educate drivers, install more penalties for reckless motorists and lower speed limits.

Here are Alan’s travel story samples, literary adventures based on Alan’s expansive and curious approach to reporting sports-business news and a bicycle life:

Let’s Pedal Zion National Park

Bicycling Bristlecone Trail At 9,000 Feet

Biking magical Seattle and the Northwest

Bicycling the Tour de Stadiums of Las Vegas

Las Vegas bicyclist struck by bullet during memorial ride

Incomparable Grand Canyon by bike

LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel has also written two books: Long Road Back To Las Vegas and Bicycle Man. Purchase Long Road Back To Las Vegas on Amazon and contact Alan to buy Bicycle Man at asnel@LVSportsBiz.com.