Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

Golden Knights To Increase Game Revenue Thanks To Increased Arena Attendance Capacity

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021 Alan Snel Alex Pietrangelo, Bill Foley, Dylan Ferguson, Logan Thompson, Marc Andre-Fleury, Robin Lehner

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Golden Knights should be able to generate about another $200,000 in game-day

COVID-19 Golden Knights

Fleury Gets False Positive COVID Test Result; VGK Goalie Removed From NHL COVID-19 Protocol List Friday

March 11, 2021March 12, 2021 Alan Snel Alex Pietrangelo, Marc Andre-Fleury, Pete DeBoer, Robin Lehner, Tomas Nosek

ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com And he’s back. The Vegas Golden Knights released a press item Friday saying goaltender

Gary Bettman, NHL commissioner

Golden Knights

A Year After COVID-19 Grounded Sports: NHL Commish Gary Bettman On The Virus, Fans Back In Arenas

March 11, 2021March 11, 2021 Alan Snel Bill Daly, Gary Bettman

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman loves Las Vegas. Sure, he was against legalized sports gambling at

COVID-19 Golden Knights

More Fans At Golden Knights Home Games: Attendance Capacity Increased To 20 Percent From 15 Percent At T-Mobile Arena

March 11, 2021March 11, 2021 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Vegas Golden Knights are selling more tickets for home games at T-Mobile Arena

Golden Knights

Fleury Pulled In Third Period As Minnesota Sweeps Two Games Against Golden Knights; VGK Lose, 4-3, With Coghlan Hat Trick Wednesday

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 Alan Snel Alec Martinez, Brayden McNabb, Cody Glass, Dylan Coghlan, Fleury, Joel Eriksson Ek, Kaapo Kahkonen, Kirill Kaprizov, Logan Thompson, Mark Stone, Shea Theodore

ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com St. Paul, Minnesota has not been a pleasant place to visit for the Vegas

UNLV

UNLV Gets Easy 80-52 Win Over Air Force In Mountain West Tourney Wednesday

March 10, 2021 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It’s been a bizarre, disjointed and mediocre basketball season for UNLV, which went 33 games

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman during visit in Las Vegas. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights

NHL Returns To ESPN For Seven-Year TV Broadcast Rights Deal Starting In 2022

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 Alan Snel Gary Bettman

ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Thirsty for non-game day arena revenue, the National Hockey League has a new seven-year

Night-time aerial photo of Raiders' Allegiant Stadium. Photo credit: Tom Donoghue

Raiders Stadium

Big-time College Sports Visiting Las Vegas In Autumn

March 10, 2021 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The first week in September will be a busy college football week at Allegiant Stadium

Basketball COVID-19 T-Mobile Arena Thomas & Mack Center UNLV

College Hoops Take Over Las Vegas, But No Fans In Arenas; UNLV Plays Air Force In Mountain West Tourney Wednesday

March 9, 2021 Alan Snel Dick Vitale, Mark Few

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It’s creepy quiet on the main concourse here at Thomas & Mack Center in the

Henderson Silver Knights

Silver Knights

Henderson Silver Knights’ First Home Game With Fans At Orleans Arena Is March 20

March 9, 2021March 9, 2021 Alan Snel

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Vegas Golden Knights’ new minor league team will have fans at their

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.

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.

The Thrill is back: The pro women’s volleyball team, the Thrill, was out of business last year but a press release says the Thrill has a new local owner and a new coach and details will be reveled at a Monday presser. The Las Vegas Thrill of Major League Volleyball used to play at the Lee Family Forum in Henderson.

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.