Friday, October 30, 2026
Latest:
  • Boondoggle or Legit Public Spending?: Travel Expense Records Show LVCVA Spent About $200,000 On College Football Championship Trip To Miami In January
  • What A Noche: VGK Pull Out 4-1 Win Over Ottawa Before Announced 16,663 On Noche De Los VGK
  • Raiders’ Comeback In Final Quarter Falls Short: Rams 35 Raiders 21 At Allegiant Stadium Oct. 25; Fourth Loss In A Row For Raiders
  • A’s Owner John Fisher On Hiring 30-Something President of Baseball Operations: ‘World Is Run By 31-Year-Olds Today’
  • Join The NBA Arena Proposal Club: Real Estate Developers Fisher Brothers Pitch NBA Arena At AREA15 Entertainment District In City Of Las Vegas
LVSportsBiz

LVSportsBiz

Las Vegas' source for sports-business news.

  • Raiders
  • Golden Knights
  • A’s
  • Stadium
  • F1
  • LVCVA
  • Aces
  • UNLV
  • NBA
  • UFC
  • Aviators

Author: Alan Snel

COVID-19 Raiders Stadium 

Second Worker At Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium Construction Site Tests Positive For Coronavirus

April 8, 2020April 9, 2020 Alan Snel OJ Simpson, Steve Sisolak

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Construction at the Raiders stadium site is moving ahead after a second worker at the

Read more
Column 

New LVSportsBiz.com Contributors Adding Insight: Today’s Guest Writer Is Attorney Dan Lust

April 8, 2020 Alan Snel

(Publisher’s Note: You may have noticed some new names of contributing writers. In addition to Cassandra Cousineau who reports on

Read more
Column 

Baseball Feature: Best of LVSportsBiz’s Weirdest Baseball Cards

April 8, 2020 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com There are few more intense emotional bonds between people and things than the connection baseball

Read more
UFC 

UFC 249 Will Be Held At Domestic U.S. Location, Not The Mystery Island; Reports Point To UFC 249 Being Held On Tribal Land In California

April 7, 2020April 8, 2020 Alan Snel Dana White, Justin Gaethje, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Tony Ferguson

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com  UFC President Dana White wants to clear something up — UFC 249 will happen in

Read more
Basketball COVID-19 Golden Knights 

Sports Industry Facing Strange New World To Navigate During COVID-19 Era; Sports Options Down To UFC White’s Plan For UFC 249 On Mystery Island

April 7, 2020April 7, 2020 Alan Snel Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It’s the morning after what was supposed to be college basketball’s national championship game. For

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

UFC Prez Dan White Forges Ahead With UFC 249 Event April 18 Amid COVID-19 Pandemic As U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 10K

April 6, 2020April 6, 2020 Alan Snel Dana White, Justin Gaethje, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Tony Ferguson

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com If you thought Dana White pulling of a magic trick like getting Conor McGregor to

Read more
Raiders Stadium 

Las Vegas Stadium Authority Has Sufficient Cash Flow To Cover Bond Payments With Expected Hotel Room Tax Revenue Decreases For March, April

April 5, 2020April 6, 2020 Alan Snel Jeremy Aguero

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It’s obvious hotel room tax revenues being collected to help fund the Raiders’ $1.97 billion

Read more
Column COVID-19 

How Sports Teams Can Beat COVID-19

April 5, 2020 Alan Snel Katie Taylor

By Vivi Lin for LVSportsBiz.com TW: @vivishootvids IG: @vivionthespot4tv FB: ViviLinOnTheSpot In the wake of COVID-19, team owners and leaders

Read more
Raiders Stadium 

Raiders Stadium Update: Making of a Sports Palace

April 5, 2020February 14, 2026 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com They grow up so fast these days. Sports venues — domed stadiums and baseball parks.

Read more
COVID-19 

On COVID-19: LVSportsBiz.com Goes 1-on-1 With Las Vegas Small Business Owner Who Generates Major Revenue From Sports Events

April 2, 2020 Alan Snel Anthony Rossi

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The coronavirus pandemic and the shutdown of small businesses deemed non-essential under a state order

Read more
  • ← Previous
  • Next →

LVSportsBiz Contact

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.

LVSportsBiz.com’s Written Word Series: Our storytelling focuses on original story lines.

June 2024: A father’s connection

June 2026: Baseball and the radio

April 2018: NHL team born in the desert

March 2020: Gratitude for being alive

June 2017: Birth of a website

August 2026: Team president does it all

*

BRIEFS

A’s stadium premium club sold out: Athletics say their new stadium’s exclusive club called the Athletic Club behind home plate is sold out, with 76 percent of the buyers from Southern Nevada. The A’s plan on opening their domed $2.1 billion stadium on the Strip in 2028.

*

LVSportsBiz.com coverage of Athletics stadium project on Strip in Las Vegas.  

A’s owner John Fisher in Las Vegas

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.

 

 

Advertiser

Long Road Back to Las Vegas Book Advertisement

LVSportsBiz.com

Bringing a watchful eye to Las Vegas’s sports-business scene.

Got a sports business story idea? Contact Founder Alan Snel at asnel@lvsportsbiz.com.

Copyright © 2017-2026 LVSportsBiz. All rights reserved.