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Author: Alan Snel

They even bet on Aviators games.
Gambling 

On Sports Betting: If It Looks Too Easy, That’s The NBA — Sometimes

May 20, 2019 Alan Snel

By Daniel Behringer LVSportsBiz.com   Well, that was easy. We glanced briefly at the lines for the first game of

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Kayla McBride defends the inbound pass in the final seconds of an Aces' 79-75 preseason loss to Minnesota at UNLV's Cox Pavilion Sunday afternoon.
Aces 

WNBA Aces Preseason Game Has Feel Of Regular Season Match On UNLV Campus Sunday

May 19, 2019May 19, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Bill Laimbeer, Jackie Young, Kayla McBride, Liz Cambage

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com   Only a preseason game in 3,000-seat Cox Pavilion next to Thomas & Mack Center?  

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Special Olympics runners arrive with the torch Friday at the Raiders stadium site.
Raiders Stadium Raiders Team Uncategorized 

Raiders Stadium Site Is Backdrop For Special Olympics Torch-Bearing Runners Friday

May 17, 2019 Alan Snel Jerry Robinson, Steve Wisniewski

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com   The Raiders stadium is still more than a year away from opening, yet its skeleton

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The Lights beat an amateur California team, 2-0, in a Lamar Hunt tournament game at Cashman Field Tuesday night.
Lights 

City of Las Vegas Changes Cashman Field’s Locks, Takes Over Pro Soccer Team’s Downtown Home As New Landlord From LVCVA

May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Eric Wynalda

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

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Photo credits: Tom Donoghue
Aviators 

Aviators Draw Season-High Crowd of 12,111 For Annual School District Day Game Tuesday

May 14, 2019 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com   The Las Vegas Aviators are leading the 30 teams of Triple A baseball in total

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Bill Laimbeer turns into Bill LaimBEER at an Aces home game on June 20. Photo credits: J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com.
Aces 

Dollar LaimBEER Night Is Coming To Las Vegas Aces Game On Throwback Thursday Next Month

May 14, 2019 Alan Snel Bill Laimbeer

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com   The cheapest beer deal in Las Vegas sports is not at Las Vegas Aviators games

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Aces start Season 2 later this month. The home opener is May 26. Photos by J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com
Aces 

WNBA Aces More Settled For Year 2 At Mandalay Bay Events Center

May 13, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Carolyn Swords, Jackie Young

  By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com   Jackie Young is the rookie on the team, but even she knows a basic

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Photos by Tom Donoghue
Basketball Gambling 

On Sports Betting: NBA’s Thrill-a-Minute Games Make For Exciting Product

May 13, 2019 Alan Snel

By Daniel Behringer LVSportsBiz.com   You have to admit the NBA has an exciting product. There are those ridiculous dunks

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Lights goalie Thomas Olsen stretches while the smoke after a Lights goal lingers at Cashman Field tonight.
Lights 

Lights FC Shedding Circus Act Reputation From Season 1, Getting Down To Business Of Winning Soccer Games In Season 2

May 11, 2019May 11, 2019 Alan Snel Eric Wynalda

    By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com   LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell   In Season 2, the Las Vegas

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The NBA 2K League and its 21 teams rolled into Las Vegas Thursday.
Esports 

NBA 2K League Brings Esports Basketball Tournament To Las Vegas This Week

May 9, 2019May 9, 2019 Alan Snel Brendan Donohue

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com   LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell   If you put Las Vegas, the NBA and

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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. And like the Vegas Golden Knights, LVSportsBiz.com is celebrating its tenth birthday in 2027.

LVSportsBiz.com’s Written Word Series: Our storytelling focuses on original story lines.

June 2024: A father’s connection

June 2026: Baseball and the radio

April 2018: NHL team born in the desert

March 2020: Gratitude for being alive

June 2017: Birth of a website

August 2026: Team president does it all

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BRIEFS

A’s stadium premium club sold out: Athletics say their new stadium’s exclusive club called the Athletic Club behind home plate is sold out, with 76 percent of the buyers from Southern Nevada. The A’s plan on opening their domed $2.1 billion stadium on the Strip in 2028.

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LVSportsBiz.com coverage of Athletics stadium project on Strip in Las Vegas.  

A’s owner John Fisher in Las Vegas

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

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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

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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.

 

 

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