Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

Barry Odom's last game at UNLV -- in Boise in the MWC championship game in December. Photo credit: LVSportsBiz.com

Former UNLV Football Coach Barry Odom Returns To Las Vegas — For Big Ten Media Days As Purdue’s Head Coach

July 24, 2025July 24, 2025 Alan Snel Barry Odom

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Lots of people dump on the media. Not Barry

College football

Day Two, Big Ten Media Days In Vegas: Minnesota Coach Fleck Dining At Prime With Donors, Players At Bellagio Tonight

July 23, 2025July 23, 2025 Alan Snel David Braun, James Franklin, Jedd Fisch, P.J. Fleck

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Aces Basketball Mark Davis Michelob Ultra Arena

WNBA Aces Getting Back On Track With Third Straight Win Tuesday, Draw Packed House Of 10,361

July 23, 2025July 23, 2025 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Becky Hammon, Dana Evans, Jackie Young, Mark Davis

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Allegiant Stadium College football

More Las Vegas Sports Hospitality: Big Ten Conference Media Days Come To Mandalay Bay This Week

July 22, 2025 Alan Snel Isaiah Wright, Mike Locksley

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NBA Commish Adam Silver

Basketball Marketing NBA NBA Summer League Sports Tourism Thomas & Mack Center Travel

NBA Summer League Attendance In Las Vegas July 10-20 Hits 136,130

July 21, 2025July 21, 2025 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Bill Foley

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Allegiant Stadium College Basketball College football LVCVA Sports Marketing Sports Tourism Travel

Seven Companies Submit Bids To LVCVA To Work On 2027 CFP Title Game At Allegiant Stadium After First Round Of Bids Had Problems

July 21, 2025July 21, 2025 Alan Snel Brooks Downing, Ed Finger, Jeff Motley, Lisa Motley, Steve Hill

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

Top Ten Things You Should Know About The A’s Stadium In Las Vegas

July 20, 2025 Alan Snel John Fisher, Marc Badain

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A's A's Stadium Allegiant Stadium Athletics Major League Baseball Stadiums/Arenas (General) UNLV

Athletics Activate Stadium Construction Cam In Las Vegas To Show Ballpark Progress; UNLV Football Coach Dan Mullen Meets Media

July 17, 2025July 17, 2025 Alan Snel Dan Mullen, Erick Harper, John Fisher, Paul McCartney

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Old Trapper getting the sweet sponsorship love from Mountain West Conference during MWC football Media Days at Circa this week. Photo credit: LVSportsBiz.com

College Basketball College football Mountain West Conference Thomas & Mack Center UNLV

Changing Times Coming For Mountain West Conference In 2026 But Marketing Focus Centers On 2025 Football, Basketball Seasons

July 16, 2025 Alan Snel Javan Hedlund

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Basketball NBA NBA Summer League NBA Summer League T-Mobile Arena

Las Vegas Will Have To Wait: NBA Will Conduct In-Depth Analysis Of Expansion, But No Timeline And Expansion Fee Set

July 15, 2025July 15, 2025 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Bill Foley

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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.

BRIEFS

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.