Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

Amanda Nunes, the UFC two-division champ, wins by decision at UFC 245 at T-Mobile Arena Saturday night.

UFC’s TKO Group Holdings And T-Mobile Arena Agree To Extend Arena Partnership Through 2030

September 3, 2025September 3, 2025 Alan Snel Dana White, Peter Dropick

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Formula 1 Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix LVCVA Sports Marketing Sports Tourism Travel

F1 Race Course Build Starts In Las Vegas Wednesday Night; 112 Days Of Grand Prix Track Installment/Dismantling

September 1, 2025September 1, 2025 Alan Snel

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Boxing LVCVA Raiders Raiders Team Sports Marketing Sports Tourism Travel

Las Vegas Tourism Drops 12 Percent In July From July 2024; Can Sports Tourism Stem The Bleeding Of Visitation Numbers?

August 29, 2025September 1, 2025 Alan Snel Jeremy Aguero

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Steve Hill, LVCVA head

Allegiant Stadium College football LVCVA Marketing Sports Marketing Sports Tourism

LVCVA Awards Job For 2027 CFP Title Game In Las Vegas To Position Sports For Second Time In Five Months After Problem-Plagued First Contract Award

August 28, 2025August 28, 2025 Alan Snel Jeff Motley, Lisa Motley, Melissa Meacham-Grossman, Steve Hill

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John Spytek

NFL Raiders camp Raiders Team

On The Job: Raiders GM Discusses Shaping An NFL Roster For First Time As An NFL Organization’s Top Man

August 28, 2025August 28, 2025 Alan Snel Jason Licht, John Spytek, Mark Davis, Tom Brady

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Las Vegas Grand Prix Could Have Avoided Year One’s F1 PR Fiasco If It Launched Two-Hour Street Race In 2024, Not 2023

August 27, 2025 Alan Snel Emily Prazer, Gino Ferraro, Renee Wilm

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A's A's Stadium Fans Las Vegas Ballpark Major League Baseball Marketing Sports Marketing Stadiums/Arenas (General)

A’s Will Play Six MLB Regular Season Home Games At Triple-A Las Vegas Ballpark In 2026

August 26, 2025August 27, 2025 Alan Snel John Fisher

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A's A's Stadium Baseball Fans Major League Baseball Marketing Stadiums/Arenas (General)

In Stadium Business, Know Your Fan Base: A’s Stadium Developers Learn From Other MLB Venues

August 23, 2025August 23, 2025 Alan Snel Mark Kotsay, Trevor Gooby

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Allegiant Stadium College football Fans Marketing Mountain West Conference UNLV

UNLV Survives Season-Opener Scare As Dan Mullen Era Debuts With 38-31 Win Over Idaho State Saturday In Week 0

August 23, 2025August 23, 2025 Alan Snel Barry Odom, Dan Mullen, Erick Harper, Jai'Den Thomas, Jordan Cooke, Marc Badain

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A's A's Stadium Fans Major League Baseball Sports Marketing Stadiums/Arenas (General)

Vegas-Bound A’s See Financial Power, Fan Experience Of Stadiums During Road Games; Mariners 3 Athletics 2 In Seattle Friday

August 22, 2025August 23, 2025 Alan Snel Brett Harris, Bryan Woo, Dallas Braden, John Fisher, Ken Korach, Marc Badain, Mark Kotsay, Max Schuemann, Nick Kurtz

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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.

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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.