Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

F1 Car Race Returns To Strip With Earlier Daily Road Closures During Nov. 20-22 Las Vegas Grand Prix Event

August 1, 2025August 1, 2025 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer LAS VEGAS, Nevada — It’s back, with its winners and losers, good news and

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Aramark Connects With Restaurateur Will Guidara For Food/Beverage Concessions At Planned A’s Stadium On Strip

July 31, 2025 Alan Snel John Fisher, Mark Davis, Will Guidara

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Raiders Award $100,000 Marketing Package To Kids Haircutting Business In Annual Small Business Showcase Contest

July 29, 2025July 30, 2025 Alan Snel Pete Carroll, Sandra Douglass Morgan

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LVCVA Will Pick Consultant For 2027 CFP Championship Game At Allegiant Stadium ‘In The Near Future’

July 29, 2025July 29, 2025 Alan Snel Brian Yost, Lisa Motley, Steve Hill

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Witnessing Las Vegas Strip, Sports Stadiums And Natural Beauty At Red Rock On A Single Bicycle Ride

July 26, 2025 Alan Snel Mark Davis

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Five Years In Las Vegas And Raiders Still Trying To Establish An Identity In Southern Nevada

July 24, 2025July 24, 2025 Alan Snel Aidan O'Connell, Antonio Pierce, Christian, Derek Carr, Gardner Minshew II, Geno Smith, Henry Ruggs III, Jimmy Garoppolo, Jon Gruden, Josh McDaniels, Mark Davis, Pete Carroll, Rich Bisaccia

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Like the annual monarch butterfly migration from Mexico and

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

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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

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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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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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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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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.