Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

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As LVSportsBiz.com Turns Two Years Old This Week, We Ask Readers To Help Us Continue This Journalism Ride

June 3, 2019June 4, 2019 Alan Snel

This news site is turning two years old this week and we have news on several fronts. To celebrate

Golden Knights

Golden Knights + Demolition Ceremony = Fun Times In Henderson Monday Morning For New Ice Center

June 3, 2019June 3, 2019 Alan Snel Big D, Dave Goucher, Debra March, Deryk Engelland, Kerry Bubolz

By Daniel Clark and Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by Daniel Clark Henderson might not be

Gambling

On Sports Betting: Tasty ‘dog Part of Classic Memorial Day Mix

June 3, 2019June 3, 2019 Alan Snel Andy Ruiz Jr., Anthony Joshua

By Daniel Behringer LVSportsBiz.com The perfect ingredients for Memorial Day are blue skies, a bevy of American flags, hot

Aces coach Bill Laimbeer said the team is still learning how to win.

Aces

WNBA Aces Lose Sloppy Game To Connecticut Sun, 80-74, As Attendance Dropped To 2,747

June 2, 2019June 2, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Bill Laimbeer, Jackie Young, Kayla McBride, Kelsey Plum, Liz Cambage

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Don’t reserve the Strip for an WNBA championship parade quite yet. The much heralded

Raiders stadium under construction in Las Vegas. A construction project adviser who wants to build a soccer stadium in downtown Las Vegas was once involved in talking with the Raiders about a stadium project at the Coliseum City site in Oakland/Alameda County four years ago.

Lights Raiders Stadium

It’s A Small World: Downtown Las Vegas Soccer Stadium Development Adviser Had Talked With Raiders About New NFL Stadium In Oakland In 2015

May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 Alan Snel Carolyn Goodman, Floyd Kephart, Marc Badain

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Las Vegas and Oakland. Oakland and Las Vegas. Two cities joined at the sports

Las Vegas Lights FC owner Brett Lashbrook

Lights

Lights Owner Lashbrook: Las Vegas Mayor Goodman Will Attend MLS Expansion Committee Meeting in July

May 29, 2019May 30, 2019 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Eric Wynalda, Floyd Kephart

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com The stadium frenzy is officially in high gear in Las Vegas. First, it was

A developer is looking to rebuild Cashman Center into the home of an MLS stadium and wants to buy the Las Vegas Lights of United Soccer League.

Lights

City of Las Vegas Makes Push For MLS Team By Negotiating With Company That Will Buy Las Vegas Lights FC; Company Wants To Build 25,000-Seat Soccer Stadium For Future MLS Team At Cashman Site

May 29, 2019May 30, 2019 Alan Snel Bob Coffin, Brett Lashbrook, Carolyn Goodman, Floyd Kephart

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com A Southern California company called The Renaissance Companies led by “financial engineer” Floyd Kephart is

Lights coach Eric Wynalda

Aviators Esports Gambling Golden Knights UNLV

LVSportsBiz.com’s Around The Horn With Items on VGK, UNLV Hoops, Lights, Aviators, eSports,

May 28, 2019 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Some choice tidbits as we move into the final week of May. UNLV and

Aviators Gambling

On Sports Betting: Take Me Out To The Ballgame On A Cool, Breezy Night In Las Vegas

May 27, 2019 Alan Snel

By Daniel Behringer LVSportsBiz.com It wasn’t exactly the perfect evening for baseball. Gray and ominous hung in the sky.

Aces star A'ja Wilson scores during Aces' game with Los Angeles Sparks.

Aces

MGM Resorts Chief Murren, Raiders Owner Davis, Kobe In House For Aces’ Season-Opening Win, 83-70, Win Over LA Sparks

May 26, 2019May 26, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Bill Laimbeer, Ed Winkle, Jim Murren, Kobe Bryant, Lance Evans, Liz Cambage, Mark Davis

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell It was 10 minutes before the Las Vegas

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.