Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

Alex Tuch when fans attended games.

On Sports Betting: Las Vegas Aces Tease Bettors With Winning Streak, Then Disappoint

August 10, 2020 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Alex Tuch, Daniel Cormier, Danielle Robinson, Jonathan Marchessault, Stipe Miocic

By Daniel Behringer for LVSportsBiz,com If you’ve been betting on the Las Vegas Aces, you’ve been cashing tickets. Until recently.

Las Vegas Aces star A'ja Wilson, league MVP

Aces

A’jA Wilson Leads Las Vegas Aces To Scrappy Two-Point Win Over New York Sunday Despite Bill Laimbeer’s Gut Feeling

August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Angel McCoughtry, Bill Laimbeer, Kelsey Plum, Liz Cambage

By Cassandra Cousineau for LVSportsBiz.com Before the Las Vegas Aces were about to play their third game in five days

Lights

Person Involved In Las Vegas Lights FC Soccer Game Tests Positive For COVID-19 Virus, Tonight’s Las Vegas vs. San Diego Game Postponed

August 8, 2020August 8, 2020 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The COVID-19 coronavirus has grounded Saturday’s Las Vegas Lights FC vs San Diego Loyal SC

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Claim Number One Seed In West With Tense 4-3 OT Win Over Colorado Saturday

August 8, 2020August 8, 2020 Alan Snel Alex Tuch, Pete DeBoer, Robin Lehner

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Even in Edmonton, they played Viva Las Vegas. So it meant only one thing. A

All quiet on the :Las Vegas Strip Saturday morning

Raiders Stadium

Las Vegas’ Tourism Numbers For June 2020 Were Brutal As Visitors Dropped 70 Percent; Hotel Room Tax Money For Raiders Stadium Will Be Down

August 8, 2020August 8, 2020 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com You knew June’s tourism numbers were going to be brutal for Las Vegas, but to

Jonny Greco in an interview with LVSportsBiz.com in August 2017.

Golden Knights

Former Vegas Golden Knights Entertainment Chief Jonny Greco Is Seattle Kraken’s New Live Entertainment Head

August 7, 2020August 7, 2020 Alan Snel Everett Fitzhugh, Jonny Greco, Lamont Buford

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Jonny Greco, who oversaw the Vegas Golden Knights’ uber-dramatic in-arena entertainment at T-Mobile Arena, is

Uncategorized

VGK Coach DeBoer On Team’s Intensity Level In Bubble: ‘These Guys Are Here For Business To Try And Win A Stanley Cup’

August 6, 2020 Alan Snel Alex Tuch, Mark Stone, Pete DeBoer

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It’s click a link to pose a question to Vegas Golden Knights coach Pete DeBoer

Raiders Team

Raiders Coach Jon Gruden On Fan-less Allegiant Stadium: ‘You Want To Cut It Loose With Your New Fan Base and It Is Disappointing’

August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 Alan Snel Jon Gruden

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Four questions from Jon Gruden’s media session Thursday. Question: How disappointing is it that there

Raiders Stadium Raiders Team

Southern Nevada Water Authority Shuts Faucet On Raiders’ 10-Year, $30 Million Sponsorship Proposal

August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 Alan Snel Scott Huntley

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Las Vegas Raiders have piled up an impressive number of new team sponsors as

Raiders owner Mark Davis at a topping off ceremony last year. Photo credit: Tom Donoghue

Raiders Stadium Raiders Team

Raiders Owner Davis: ‘If One Fan Couldn’t Go, Then I Don’t Know If Any Fan Should Be Able To Go’

August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 Alan Snel Derek Carr, Mark Davis

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com This week, Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis told Raiders season ticket holders that no

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.