Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

UFC’s Re-location of 232 Fight Show from Las Vegas to LA Disrespects Nunes-Cyborg Megamatch

December 25, 2018December 25, 2018 Alan Snel Alexander Gustafsson, Amanda Nunes, Conor McGregor, Cris "Cyborg", Dana White, Demetrious Johnson, Jon Jones, Miesha Tate, Ronda Rousey, Valentina Schevchenko

By CASSANDRA COUSINEAU LVSportsBiz.com It’s the biggest women’s fight in UFC history. Sorry Ronda Rousey, but Amanda Nunes vs.

Gambling

On Sports Betting: Bowl Season Helps Make It the Happiest Time of the Year

December 24, 2018 Alan Snel

By DANIEL BEHRINGER LVSportsBiz.com You gotta love the holiday season. There’s good times, great friends, delicious food and college football

Dana White switches UFC 232 from Las Vegas to Los Angeles.

UFC

UFC’s Switch of 232 Fight Show to LA from Las Vegas Scrambles Many Plans, Lives

December 23, 2018December 24, 2018 Alan Snel Amanda Nunes, Dana White, Jon Jones

By CASSANDRA COUSINEAU LVSportsBiz.com Dana White and Jon Jones. What a tag team. White, the UFC president

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Roll Out New Year’s Day Game Ticket Deal With Anti-Resolution and Free Cigar Twist; LA Defeats VGK in OT, 4-3

December 23, 2018December 23, 2018 Alan Snel "Phil", Jim Frevola, Kerry Bubolz

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell The Vegas Golden Knights are selling tickets

Now hear this: wear your white VGK gear for Sunday's 5 pm game with the LA Kings.

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Lose 4-3 to Montreal in OT during Rare Saturday Afternoon Game

December 22, 2018 Alan Snel Brayden McNabb, Jonathan Marchessault, Marc Andre-Fleury

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com He can’t make every save and carry the Vegas Golden Knights on his back to

Golden Knights owner Bill Foley.

Golden Knights

Foley’s Season Two Goal: ‘I Expect to Win the Stanley Cup’

December 21, 2018December 21, 2018 Alan Snel Bill Foley

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Golden Knights owner Bill Foley is clear about the VGK’s season two goal: “I expect to

NHL gamers play during competition at the HyperX Esports Arena run by Allied Esports. Photo credits: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Esports

Allied Esports Using Its Las Vegas Gaming Arena in Luxor as Model for Venue Expansion in Asia, Europe

December 21, 2018December 22, 2018 Alan Snel Jud Hannigan

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The California company that converted a Luxor hotel-casino club into a 30,000-square-foot, high-tech esports venue

Golden Knights

Golden Knights’ Revenues Running Strong in Season Two as VGK Defeat Isles, 4-2, in Comeback Win

December 20, 2018December 21, 2018 Alan Snel Brandon Pirri, Carnell Johnson, Gerard Gallant, Marc Andre-Fleury, Nate Schmidt

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell The Vegas Golden Knights continued their winning ways

The Golden Knights pocket schedule is a dinosaur in season two.

Golden Knights

Unconventional Golden Knights Do Away with Small-Sized Tradition With Big History: Death of the Pocket Schedule

December 19, 2018 Alan Snel Brian Killingsworth

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The Vegas Golden Knights have scored high praise for their unconventional, over-the-top pregame show, the

Credit One Bank is a founding partner of the recently re-branded Las Vegas Aviators minor league team. Photo credit: John Erik Ricardo/LVSportsBiz.com

51s Aviators

Las Vegas-based Credit One Bank Beefs Up Sports Portfolio By Becoming Founding Partner of Re-branded Aviators Ballclub

December 17, 2018January 28, 2019 Alan Snel John Coombe, Kyle Larson

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com After Credit One Bank forged a multi-faceted sports sponsorship deal with the Vegas Golden Knights,

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.