Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

Aviators

New Grass Arrives In Summerlin (No, Not That Type Of Grass)

February 17, 2022 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Major League Baseball owners and big league players are still embroiled in a labor

Allegiant Stadium

More Concert Action For Allegiant Stadium In September

February 17, 2022February 17, 2022 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium is getting another event date in September and it’s neither a

Golden Knights T-Mobile Arena

Much-Anticipated Eichel Debut In Vegas Excites VGK Crowd, But Colorado Blanks Knights, 2-0, Wednesday

February 16, 2022February 16, 2022 Alan Snel Alex Pietrangelo, Alex Tuch, Darcy Kuemper, Evgenii Dadonov, Gabriel Landeskog, Jack Eichel, Laurent Brossoit, Max Pacioretty, Mikko Rantanen, Peyton Krebs

Story by Alan Snel Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell Adela may have postponed her show on the Strip, but

National Lacrosse League action. Credits: NLL

Lacrosse Silver Knights

New Pro Las Vegas Lacrosse Team Reveals Ticket Costs For 2022-23, Starting At $25 Per Seat For Season Ticket Holders

February 15, 2022February 15, 2022 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Dustin Johnson, Joe Tsai, Steve Nash, Wayne Gretzky

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The new professional lacrosse team in Las Vegas is selling tickets to season ticket holders

Jack Eichel at practice Tuesday. Credit: LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights

Eichel In, Stone Out (LTIR) For Wednesday’s Eichel VGK Debut Against Colorado: ‘It’s A Long Time Coming’

February 15, 2022February 15, 2022 Alan Snel Brayden McNabb, Jack Eichel, Kelly McCrimmon, Mark Stone, Pete DeBoer

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Ticket prices on the VGK Ticket Exchange website for the Jack Eichel VGK debut game

Gambling

Bettors Place Nearly Record $180 Million Of Wagers on Sunday’s Super Bowl In Nevada’s Sports Books With Books Winning $15.4 Million

February 14, 2022February 16, 2022 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Sports gamblers wagered nearly $180 million on Sunday’s Super Bowl in Nevada’s 179 sports books,

Credit: Pat Christenson

Outdoor Sports Rock n’ Roll Marathon Sports Marketing Sports Tourism

Rock N’ Roll Marathon Returns To Las Vegas With Night Run On Strip

February 14, 2022 Alan Snel Dale Eeles, Pat Christenson

By Pat Christenson special for LVSportsBiz.com For 37 years, the Las Vegas International Marathon ran from Jean to Sunset Park. Somewhere

Basketball Gambling Golden Knights Raiders Team Super Bowl T-Mobile Arena UNLV

Monday Morning Gambler: Let’s Move On … To Super Bowl 57

February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 Alan Snel Kevin Kruger, Pete DeBoer

By Dan Behringer for LVSportsBiz.com It all ended late Sunday night. The strident arguments over the Los Angeles Rams vs.

Rams score winning touchdown at SoFi Stadium Sunday. Credit: NFL twitter

Allegiant Stadium NFL Super Bowl

Las Vegas Can Learn From Los Angeles When Sin City Hosts Super Bowl 58 in 2024; Rams Win NFL Title In Home Stadium

February 13, 2022 Alan Snel Cooper Kupp, Matthew Stafford

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Las Vegas will get its crack at hosting the Super Bowl in only two years.

Steve Sisolak at Golden Knights opening night on October 10, 2017

COVID-19 Golden Knights T-Mobile Arena

Gov. Sisolak Drops Indoor Mask Mandate For Public Places In Nevada

February 10, 2022February 10, 2022 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Steve Sisolak

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak has caught up with Vegas Golden Knights fans at T-Mobile Arena

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.

BRIEFS

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.