Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

San Diego State Aztecs mascot.

Basketball

LVCVA Promotion Arm Las Vegas Events Spends $1.1 Million On Sponsorships For Pac-12, Mountain West, West Coast Conference Tournaments In Las Vegas

March 6, 2020March 6, 2020 Alan Snel Cowboy Ken, Hunter Thompson, Neemias Queta, Sam Merrill

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com They came to Las Vegas in force, filling bottom bowl sections at Thomas & Mack

Healthy fans should not give high fives at games. Photo credits: J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com

Basketball

With Worldwide Virus in U.S., It’s OK to Attend Sports Events In Las Vegas Area If You’re Healthy But No High-Fives

March 5, 2020March 6, 2020 Alan Snel Amy Stone

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com If you feel healthy, it’s OK to attend sports events with big gatherings like Vegas

UFC

In Sports World Of Stiff Executives, Press Releases, and Boring Cliches, Dana White’s Brutal Honesty, Blue Jeans and Blue Language Give UFC Headline Power

March 5, 2020March 5, 2020 Alan Snel Dana White

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com He’s the sports executive unicorn of f-bombs, blue jeans and blunt-speaking prose. While the NFL,

Coach T.J. Otzelberger

UNLV

UNLV Men’s Basketball Season Ends Thursday With 67-61 Loss To Boise State In Mountain West Tourney

March 5, 2020March 5, 2020 Alan Snel Amauri Hardy, Bryce Hamilton, Desiree Reed-Francois, Elijah Mitrou-Long, Jonah Antonio, Marvin Menzies, T.J. Otzelberger

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com So much for thinking UNLV men’s basketball team would ride a host streak all the

UFC Prez Dana White

Raiders Team

UFC Prez Dana White to Tom Brady: ‘C’mon Brother Get To Vegas’

March 4, 2020 Alan Snel Dana White, Derek Carr, Tom Brady

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com When he’s not hanging with his pal President Donald Trump, strategizing on UFC dealing with

UFC President Dana White

UFC

UFC’s Dana White On Coronavirus: ‘We’re Looking At How This Will Affect Our Business This Year’

March 4, 2020March 4, 2020 Alan Snel Dana White, Tulsi Gabbard, Zhang Weili

By Cassandra Cousineau for LVSportsBiz.com With countries around the world enacting screening measures, it’s hard to ignore the impact COVID-19,

Raiders Stadium

Raiders Line Up Country Music Star Garth Brooks To Play Allegiant Stadium Aug. 22

March 4, 2020 Alan Snel Garth Brooks

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It’s concert on at Allegiant Stadium. The country’s top-selling artist, Garth Brooks, is scheduled to

Arena emcee Mark Shuncok celebrates VGK's first goal Hulk-style

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Remember VGK Hulk Superfan With 3-0 Donut Win Over New Jersey Devils Before 18,290 Tuesday

March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 Alan Snel John Baratta, Mark Shunock, Max Pacioretty, Robin Lehner, Ryan Reaves, William Karlsson

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell John “VGK Hulk” Baratta wasn’t around to rip his

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Fan Family Unite To Mourn Loss Of One Of Their Own Before VGK Game Tuesday Night

March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 Alan Snel Carnell Johnson, Jason Griego, John Baratta, Jon Greco, Mark Shunock

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell The Vegas Golden Knights call T-Mobile Arena, the “Fortress.”

Golden Knights Lights NFL

Golden Knights Host Make-A-Wish Kids, Former UMC Children’s Hospital Patients Monday; Plus Sports-Business Briefs

March 3, 2020 Alan Snel Alex Tuch, Marc Andre-Fleury

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The day began Monday with about a half-dozen Make-a-Wish kids skating on the City National

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.

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.

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.