Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

NHL Final 4: Golden Knights Take Game One, 4-1, Over Montreal At T-Mobile Arena Monday

June 14, 2021June 15, 2021 Alan Snel Alec Martinez, Fleury, Gary Bettman, Mattias Janmark, Nick Holden, Pete DeBoer, Reilly Smith, Shea Theodore

Story by Alan Snel Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell The Vegas

Golden Knights

NHL Final 4: Golden Knights Secondary Market Tickets For VGK vs MTL Game 1 In Vegas Today Are Red-Hot — Like Las Vegas Weather This Week

June 14, 2021June 14, 2021 Alan Snel JP Peterson

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The average Golden Knights’ ticket price for the NHL semifinal matchup with the Montreal Canadiens

Gambling Golden Knights

Monday Morning Gambler: The Price To Bet The Vegas Golden Knights Goes Up and Up and Up

June 14, 2021June 14, 2021 Alan Snel Conor McGregor, Dustin Poirier

By Dan Behringer for LVSportsBiz.com You really want to bet on the white-hot Vegas Golden Knights? You’re gonna pay the

NHL

NHL Final 4: Islanders Jump Out To 1-0 Series Lead With Game 1 Win Over Lightning In Tampa Sunday Afternoon; VGK vs Montreal Monday

June 13, 2021June 13, 2021 Alan Snel Brayden Point, Mat Barzal, Ryan Pulock, Semyon Varlamov

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com For all you folks who believe the Vegas Golden Knights will be hosting the Tampa

Golden Knights

This Week’s Red-Hot News: Vegas Golden Knights vs Montreal Canadiens and Las Vegas 117-Degree Weather vs T-Mobile Arena Ice Surface

June 12, 2021June 14, 2021 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It’s a good thing Schneider Electric is a major sponsor of T-Mobile Arena. Technically speaking,

Aces COVID-19 Golden Knights

Las Vegas Bouncing Back From COVID: Sellout Of 9,568 At Las Vegas Ballpark Friday Evening

June 12, 2021 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Las Vegas came back this week. More than 18,000 fans crammed into T-Mobile Arena to

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Close Out Series Against Colorado In Six Games; Vegas 6 Avalanche 3 Before 18,149 Thursday; VGK Move On To Final Four Against Montreal

June 10, 2021June 11, 2021 Alan Snel Alex Pietrangelo, Andre Burakovsky, Devon Toews, Fleury, Keegan Kolesar, Max Pacioretty, Mikko Rantanen, Pete DeBoer, William Carrier, William Karlsson

Story by Alan Snel

Nikki Fargas, Aces team president (center)

Aces Basketball

LVSportsBiz Q and A: Las Vegas Aces President Nikki Fargas

June 9, 2021 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Bill Laimbeer, Chelsea Gray, Nikki Fargas

By Cassandra Cousineau of LVSportsBiz.com It’s been barely a month since Las Vegas Aces owner Mark Davis introduced Nikki Fargas

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Look To Knock Out Avalanche At T-Mobile Arena Thursday After Rallying To Beat Colorado, 3-2, In Overtime In Game 5 In Denver Tuesday

June 8, 2021June 9, 2021 Alan Snel Alex Tuch, Brandon Saad, Fleury, Jonathan Marchessault, Joonas Donskoi, Keegan Kolesar, Mark Stone, Mattias Janmark, Nic Roy, Nick Holden, Patrick Brown, Pete DeBoer, Philipp Grubauer, Ryan Reaves, Will Carrier, Zach Whitecloud

Marx brothers discuss game 5 win in Denver.By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Just the facts: Vegas 3 Colorado 2 in

Raiders Stadium

Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium Lines Up Another Event For August

June 8, 2021June 8, 2021 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Raiders are lining up programming for their stadium. This time it’s Guns N’ Roses.

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.