Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

Raiders Invite Season Ticket Holders To Watch First Practice At Allegiant Stadium Via A Live Look-In Friday

August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 Alan Snel Paul Guenther

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Las Vegas Raiders have contacted their season ticket holders to give them a chance to

Las Vegas Aces coach Bill Laimbeer gets a haircut at the WNBA Bubble Wednesday, marking the end of a hairy era. Photo: Aces.

Aces

Las Vegas Aces Coach Bill Laimbeer Finally Gets Haircut (And Aces PR Director’s Hairy Updates Come To An End)

August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 Alan Snel Bill Laimbeer, John Maxwell

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The COVID-19 pandemic may have turned the sports industry upside-down and made our lives a

Raiders Team Sports Marketing UFC

Sports Marketing: Modelo Looks To Grow Brand Presence In Las Vegas Through Raiders Sponsorship

August 19, 2020August 20, 2020 Alan Snel Amanda Nunes, Rene Ramos

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Beer and sports. The partnerships go way back way. It’s reached the point where teams

Raiders Stadium Raiders Team

Raiders Drink Up Another Sponsor– Modelo Is ‘Official Cerveza’

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Just last month beer drinkers learned that Molson Coors was the beer sponsor partner of

Golden Knights

Upset That Ryan Reaves Took A Knee For Racial Equality During Anthem, Golden Knights Season Ticket Holder Quits Watching VGK Games

August 19, 2020August 20, 2020 Alan Snel Ryan Reaves

(Publisher’s Note: On Aug. 4. LVSportsBiz.com published a column written by Air Force veteran/Golden Knights fan Jason Griego about why

Golden Knights playoff merch sales are increasing.

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Selling Out Playoff Merchandise, With Fleury, Lehner Merch Sales Going Strong

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 Alan Snel Brian Killingsworth

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Vegas Golden Knights closed out their first round series with the pesky Chicago Blackhawks

Gambling

On Sports Betting: Vegas Golden Knights Streak of Paying off Bettors Comes to Abrupt Halt

August 17, 2020 Alan Snel Daniel Cormier, Frankie Edgar, Marc Andre-Fleury, Pedro Munhoz, Reilly Smith, Stipe Miocic

By Daniel Behringer for LVSportsBiz.com Sometime late Thursday afternoon when the temperature outside in Las Vegas had peaked at about

VGK forward Mark Stone

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Had Their Chances But Lose, 3-1, To Chicago in Game 4 Sunday; Game 5 Is Tuesday

August 16, 2020August 17, 2020 Alan Snel Corey Crawford, Dave Goucher, Drake Caggiula, Matthew Highmore, Robin Lehner, Shane Hnidy, Shea Theodore

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com No first round playoff series sweep for the Vegas Golden Knights Sunday. And it’s not

UFC

UFC’s Cormier Performed Double Duty for UFC As Both Fighter And Broadcaster; Miocic Defeats DC In Cormier’s Final Fight

August 15, 2020August 16, 2020 Alan Snel Dana White, Daniel Cormier, Stipe Miocic

By Cassandra Cousineau of LVSportsBiz.com With the most consequential heavyweight championship in UFC history on the line in Las Vegas

Marc-Andre Fleury returned to the goal for the Vegas Golden Knights Saturday. Photo by NHL.

Golden Knights

Fleury Reappears For Golden Knights As VGK Grind Out 2-1 Win Over Chicago Saturday To Grab 3-0 Series Lead

August 15, 2020August 15, 2020 Alan Snel Marc Andre-Fleury, Patrick Brown, Paul Stastny, Robin Lehner, Tomas Nosek, William Karlsson

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Don’t bury The Flower quite yet. VGK goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, an original Golden Knights player

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.