Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

Cashman Field is the Lights' stadium but it still has the baseball outfield walls still up.

Lights

Eventually, Lights Soccer Team Will Have To Upgrade Its Downtown Venue; Lights and Tulsa Play To A Scoreless Draw

May 25, 2019May 25, 2019 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Carolyn Goodman

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell The Las Vegas Lights FC soccer team fills

Aces Aviators UNLV

Wilson, Otzelberger Make Pitches To Make Basketball Big-Time Again In Las Vegas

May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, T.J. Otzelberger

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com A’ja Wilson is a gifted 22-year-old basketball player from South Carolina and and T.J. Otzelberger

It's Aces basketball on local TV in Las Vegas. Photo credit: Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com

Uncategorized

WNBA Aces Cut TV Deal With Sinclair Broadcasting To Air Home Basketball Games On MyLVTV In Las Vegas

May 24, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Bill Laimbeer, Christine Monjer, Liz Cambage

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com The Las Vegas Aces of the 12-team WNBA has a deal to broadcast nearly all

Aviators

Aviators Continue Selling Out Games and Selling Thousands of Beers on $2 Beer Nights

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com The ballpark sellouts and the massive sales of $2 beers on Thursday beer nights just

Raiders Stadium

Raiders Changing Las Vegas Stadium Budget to Add 20 More Suites and End Zone Club Area

May 23, 2019May 26, 2019 Alan Snel Don Webb, Tina Quigley

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com The Raiders are making $40 million worth of budget changes at their Las Vegas stadium

Streaming service DAZN is promoted at Canelo fight at T-Mobile Arena earlier this month.

Boxing

Streaming Service DAZN Scored First With Soccer, Now With Boxing, MMA; Becomes Player Along With ESPN+

May 22, 2019 Alan Snel Canelo Alvarez, Daniel Jacobs, Gennady Golovkin, Jay Chaudhry, John Skipper, Len Blavatnik

By Cassandra Cousineau LVSportsBiz.com The thousands of boxing fans who descended on T-Mobile Arena earlier this month for the

Last Blues hat sold at Lids store in Downtown Summerlin Wednesday.

Golden Knights

Las Vegas Becomes A St. Louis Blues Town

May 22, 2019 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com The local market might be Las Vegas — Golden Knights country — but retail sales

Golden Knights community ice center in Henderson.

Golden Knights

Henderson City Council Approves VGK Ice Center Land Deal Tuesday, Giving $10.75 Million To NHL Team To Build $25 Million Ice Center

May 21, 2019May 22, 2019 Alan Snel Debra March, Kerry Bubolz

(This story first ran Monday and was updated to reflect the Henderson city council action Tuesday) By Alan Snel

People are talking about a rugby team in Las Vegas.

Rugby

Las Vegas’ Next Major League Sports Team? Not NBA Or MLB But How About Rugby?

May 21, 2019May 22, 2019 Alan Snel Dean Howes, Mick Hall, Rob Cornelius

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com This being Las Vegas, city of big dreams and city of the big sports buffet,

Las Vegas Aces' new center Liz Cambage, just acquired in a trade, chats with team president Christine Monjer after the Cambage news conference at MGM Grand Garden Arena Monday afternoon.

Aces

Dealt A Bad Hand In Tulsa, WNBA Star Liz Cambage Has All Aces in Las Vegas

May 20, 2019May 20, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Bill Laimbeer, Christine Monjer, Kayla McBride, Liz Cambage

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Liz Cambage, you’re not in Tulsa anymore. Cambage, the 27-year-old six-foot, eight-inch center and

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.