Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

Raiders Stadium

Raiders Stadium Topping Out Ceremony Set For Monday Morning

August 3, 2019 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com The last steel canopy truss section was hoisted into place and installed. And now, Raiders

Discount carrier Allegiant Air is based in Summerlin is known for targeting leisure travelers.

Raiders Stadium Raiders Team

Travel Marketing Signs Point To Allegiant Air As Raiders Stadium’s Naming Rights Partner In Las Vegas

August 1, 2019August 2, 2019 Alan Snel Marc Badain, Mark Davis

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com All the business marketing signs are pointing to Summerlin-based Allegiant Air as the naming rights

UNLV

Inside Las Vegas Sports Marketing: Sam Boyd Stadium’s Farewell Season

August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com In 30 days, the UNLV football team will begin its 2019 season with a game

Smaller than usual crowd at Aviators ballpark in Summerlin Tuesday evening.

Aces Aviators

Aviators’ Attendance Hits 7,683 on Toasty Tuesday Night; Ballpark to Host Movie Nights

July 31, 2019July 31, 2019 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com It was a Tuesday night and another 100-degree-plus day in Las Vegas. Typically, attendance used

Bicycling

A Beautiful Bicycle Life — A Top 10 Bicycle Ride List

July 30, 2019 Alan Snel Anthony Rossi, Bill Fox, Bill Walton, Chris O'Connell, Jared Fisher, Jeff Houck, Margaret Fox, Rosemary Evans, Scott Sofferman

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Publisher’s Note: When you see the United State by bicycle, pedaling slow enough to see

Sam Boyd Stadium game attendees will receive a special T-shirt for each UNLV football home game in 2019 to say farewell to the ol' football venue.

UNLV

UNLV Football Says So Long To Sam Boyd Stadium With Freebies In 2019

July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 Alan Snel Ickey Woods, Randall Cunningham

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Neither the UNLV football program nor its gridiron home at Sam Boyd Stadium is a

Las Vegas Aces will resume suspended earthquake game from July 5 at T-Mobile Arena on Aug. 5.

Aces

Aces Will Play At T-Mobile Arena For First Time Aug. 5 To Complete Suspended ‘Earthquake’ Game From July 5

July 29, 2019 Alan Snel Mark Davis

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Thanks to some shake, rattle and roll, the Las Vegas Aces will play a regular

Gambling

On Sports Betting: Baseball ‘Game of the Year’ Helps Dispel Myths of the Game

July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 Alan Snel

By Daniel Behringer LVSportsBiz.com Baseball is boring. Baseball is too slow. Nobody watches baseball anymore. Arguably true in all cases. But then there

This Lights fan bought the use of this $15 Wal-Mart kiddies pool for $50 at tonight's game.

Lights

Even With Intense Heat And Visiting Grasshoppers, Lights Soccer Club Draws Big Crowd Of More Than 8,800 Saturday Night

July 27, 2019July 27, 2019 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com A half-hour after the Las Vegas Lights FC soccer team beat Rio Grand Valley FC,

2019 WNBA All Star Game, Las Vegas -- New Commissioner Cathy Engelbert addresses the media before the game.

Aces

New WNBA Commissioner: ‘I’m In Listening Mode And I’m Getting A Lot Of Feedback’

July 27, 2019July 27, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Brittney Griner, Cathy Engelbert, Elena Delle Donne, Erica Wheeler, Kobe Bryant

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell A mere month on the job, new WNBA Commissioner

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.