Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

COVID-19 UNLV

Sports and COVID-19: UNLV Offers $1 Season Ticket Deposit Deal For Football Season, But Virus Expert Fauci Calls For No Fans At Stadiums

April 15, 2020April 15, 2020 Alan Snel Anthony Fauci

UNLV is trying to stir more football fans into attending Rebels home games by promoting a deal that allows people

Sign at Raiders stadium construction site today.

COVID-19 Raiders Stadium

Raiders Stadium Construction Site Reduced Workforce Briefly From COVID-19 But Number Of Workers Back To Normal Level

April 14, 2020April 15, 2020 Alan Snel Jeremy Aguero

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com There was a brief period of time when the number of construction workers dropped at

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Sports and The Law: In Florida, Essential Business Are Health Care, Food — And Now Pro Sports With National Audiences Too

April 14, 2020April 14, 2020 Alan Snel

By Daniel Lust for LVSportsBiz.com Twitter: @SportsLawLust Pro sports are considered “essential” business? The answer was “no” until Florida changed

Las Vegas City Coucnilman Cedric Crear at isolation and quarantine homeless center at Cashman Center,

COVID-19

COVID-19 and Sports: Cashman Soccer Redevelopment Talks Pushed To September; Development Group Working On Including New Investor For Soccer Stadium Deal In Downtown LV; Tour Of New Isolation/Quarantine Center At Cashman

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 Alan Snel Cedric Crear, Floyd Kephart, Scott Adams

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell These are trying times for the Cashman Center and

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Veteran Las Vegas Photographer Tom Donoghue Captures Images Of Thunderbirds’ Aerial Salute To Health Care Workers

April 12, 2020 Alan Snel Tom Donoghue

(Publisher’s note: In these difficult, anxious and trying times of living through a virus pandemic, LVSportsBiz.com will publish stories that

Raiders Stadium

Just Sell Baby!: Raiders’ Corporate Partnership Revenues Projected to Soar From 32nd To as High as Top Three In NFL Thanks To New Stadium in Las Vegas

April 11, 2020April 19, 2020 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Las Vegas Raiders have hit the jackpot in Las Vegas. Everybody knows about the

Gov. Sisolak when he was addressing the Laborers Local 872 members at a union gathering in August 2017 when Sisolak was Clark County Commission chairman. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Raiders Stadium

Nevada Gov/Raiders Superfan Steve Sisolak and Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium In Age Of COVID-19

April 10, 2020April 11, 2020 Alan Snel Len Jessup, Marc Badain, Steve Sisolak, Tommy White

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak tightened the social distancing faucet this week when he imposed more

COVID-19

Sports and COVID-19: Endorsement Deals Put On Hold For Olympic Athletes After Summer Games Pushed Back To 2021

April 10, 2020 Alan Snel Craig Beardsley, Jimmy Carter, Rowdy Gaines

By Toby Srebnik for LVSportsBiz.com For the fourth time in Olympics history dating back to 1896, the Olympics have been

UFC President Dana White. Photo credit: J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com

UFC

UFC Prez Dana White Pulls Plug On UFC 249: White Tells LVSportsBiz, ‘Disney Asked Me To Postpone’

April 9, 2020April 10, 2020 Alan Snel Dana White, Justin Gaethje, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Tony Ferguson

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com In the end, even UFC President Dana White couldn’t buck the virus –or top Disney/ESPN

COVID-19

Pro Teams Put On Notice In Age of COVID-19 Pandemic: Seton Hall Poll Says 72% Of Americans Wouldn’t Attend Games Before Vaccine Development

April 9, 2020April 11, 2020 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com A Seton Hall University sports poll has some sobering results for professional teams amid the

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.