Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

Bill Foley, VGK majority owner. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights Owner Bill Foley Expanding European Soccer Portfolio With Minority Stake In French Soccer Team; MLS Not On Radar For Foley

January 13, 2023 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Jim Frevola, Michael B. Jordan, Nullah Sarker

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley, who has desired to make the VGK

Allegiant Stadium UNLV

UNLV Spent Nearly $2.2 Million To Stage Its Six Football Games At Allegiant Stadium This Past Season

January 13, 2023January 13, 2023 Alan Snel

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer UNLV paid nearly $2.2 million to the Las Vegas Raiders to rent Allegiant

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Weekend Sports Gambler: On-again, Off-again Runnin’ Rebels Next Face Colorado State Saturday

January 13, 2023January 14, 2023 Alan Snel Glover Teixeira, Jamahal Hill, Kevin Kruger, Mark Stone

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Dan Behringer, LVSportsBiz.com Sports Betting Writer Will the real UNLV Runnin’ Rebels basketball please stand up?

Golden Knights Sports Marketing T-Mobile Arena

Golden Knights Score Hat Trick In Third Period To Subdue Florida Panthers, 4-2, Before 17,735 Thursday

January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 Alan Snel Adin Hill, Jack Eichel, Nic Roy, William Carrier, William Karlsson

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Story by Alan Snel Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell Just the facts: Vegas Golden Knights 4 Florida

Gambling Sports Marketing

Boyd Gaming Promoting FanDuel With Sportsbook At Downtown Las Vegas Fremont Property; New Food Hall Added Next To Sportsbook

January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 Alan Snel

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer Boyd Gaming will not float a $5 million deal to watch the Formula

Thomas & Mack Center UNLV

Boise State’s 53-Point Second Half Buries UNLV Runnin’ Rebels Wednesday; Attendance: 5,102

January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 Alan Snel Elijah Harkless, Jordan McCabe, Justin Webster, Keshon Gilbert, Kevin Kruger, Luis Rodriguez

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Story by Alan Snel Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell Boise State’s basketball

Dana White, UFC president

Apex UFC

Dana White To Media On Slapping Wife: ‘Don’t Defend Me, Don’t Anyone Defend Me;’ UFC President Will Not Step Away From Fight Show Organization After Hitting Wife New Year’s Eve

January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 Alan Snel Dana White

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer UFC President Dana White told media Wednesday that no suspension of 30 or

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Golden Knights Lose Fifth Straight Division Game, Dropping 5-1 Uncompetitive Decision To LA Kings Before 18,339 Saturday

January 7, 2023January 7, 2023 Alan Snel Adin Hill, Alec Martinez, Chandler Stephenson, Jack Eichel, Kevin Fiala, Logan Thompson, Nic Roy, Phoenix Copley, Reilly Smith, Viktor Arvidsson, William Karlsson

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer The Las Vegas Raiders mailed in a dismal 31-13 defeat to rival

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Disappointing Raiders Season Ends Saturday When Chiefs, KC Fans Pile Into Allegiant Stadium; Chiefs 31 Raiders 13 Final; Attendance, 62,136

January 7, 2023January 7, 2023 Alan Snel Damar Hamlin, Daniel Carlson, Davante Adams, Dave Ziegler, Derek Carr, Isiah Pacheco, Jarrett Stidham, Jerick McKinnon, Josh McDaniels, Justin Watson, Patrick Mahomes

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer Back when the Las Vegas heat was cooking at 105 degrees

Allegiant Stadium and T-Mobile Arena in background.

AFC Bournemouth Allegiant Stadium Las Vegas Ballpark Major League Baseball NFL Oakland Athletics Sports Marketing Sports Tourism Stadiums/Arenas (General)

LVSportsBiz.com News Roundup: Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium Would Make For Great Neutral Site For AFC Championship Game

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 Alan Snel Damar Hamlin

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer The Las Vegas market and Allegiant Stadium were built for just this: hosting

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. And like the Vegas Golden Knights, LVSportsBiz.com is celebrating its tenth birthday in 2027.

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

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Another day, another NBA arena idea in Las Vegas: During a quarterly earnings report call, VICI Properties execs said they’re teaming up with Caesars Entertainment on an idea to build an NBA arena behind three hotel-casinos in the center of the Strip just north of Flamingo Road.

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

Marc Badain

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.