Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

The mascots for Las Vegas sports teams gathered Saturday night at the Las Vegas Lights soccer match. Photo credit: J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com

Lights

Mascots Endure Sweltering Conditions At Las Vegas Lights Game; First Time All Five LV Mascots Gather

August 5, 2018August 5, 2018 Alan Snel Clint McComb

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com It’s a beastly, 100-degree-plus heat on the pitch at Cashman Field, where the Las

McGregor is worth too much money to UFC to not be fighting in the Octagon.

UFC WNBA Aces

Harmonic Convergence of Aces’ Travel Woes, McGregor/White and Wild Bill Shows Power of The Mighty Dollar

August 4, 2018 Alan Snel Conor McGregor, Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, William Karlsson

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com After the Las Vegas Aces travel headaches, you have to wonder how many metal dollies

AD Desiree Reed-Francois with UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez

UNLV

Faced With Competitive Las Vegas Sports Market, UNLV Athletics Release ‘Be A Rebel’ Branding Campaign

August 2, 2018 Alan Snel Desiree Reed-Francois

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com When Desiree Reed-Francois arrived on the UNLV campus from Virginia Tech in 2017, she

Will baseball and Howard Hughes Corporation be combined into a new Aviators name in Summerlin?

51s Aviators

When You’re Naming Housing Developments, ‘Reverence,’ You’re Probably Not Going To Give Your Ball Team an Irreverent Name

August 2, 2018January 31, 2019 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Cosmo, Howard Hughes

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com It’s no secret Howard Hughes Corporation, owners of the Las Vegas 51s, is considering re-naming

Las Vegas Aces coach and president of basketball operations Bill Laimbeer. Photo credit: J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com

WNBA Aces

Las Vegas Aces Offer Unique Entertainment Attraction — The Tall Dude Who Likes To Berate Refs

August 2, 2018August 2, 2018 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Bill Laimbeer, Brittney Griner, Diana Taurasi, Kayla McBride

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The WNBA has a home in Las Vegas and some of the world’s most

The NBA has reached a historic sports gambling partnership with Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts International.

Basketball Gambling

With MGM Resorts and NBA Forging Historic Sports Betting Partnership, When Will This Romance Conceive An NBA Team For MGM’s T-Mobile Arena?

July 31, 2018July 31, 2018 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Jim Murren

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Now that we have learned that MGM Resorts International has become the official sports betting

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Golden Knights

Golden Knights Sending Cease-and-Desist Letter to Las Vegas Gun Store for Using VGK Logo and Mark on Glock

July 30, 2018 Alan Snel Eric Tosi, Kerry Bubolz

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Vegas Golden Knights officials say they are contacting a Las Vegas gun and ammo shop

Raiders President Marc Badain (left) and Golden Knights President Kerry Bubolz (right) followed different career paths to Las Vegas. Photo credits for this story: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights Raiders Team

Two Big-League Team Presidents Charted Very Different Routes To Las Vegas

July 28, 2018July 30, 2018 Alan Snel Gary Bettman, Kerry Bubolz, Marc Badain, Steve Hill

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com One guy has spent his entire adulthood with a single NFL team from California that

UFC

UFC Needs Fresh, Talented Fighters And To Move Away From McGregor, Lesnar Stunts

July 26, 2018 Alan Snel Brad Hunt, Brock Lesnar, Conor McGregor, Daniel Cormier, Demetrious Johnson, Floyd Mayweather, Jon Merrill, Nate Schmidt, Ronda Rousey

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com No sports organization has mixed mano-a-mano cage violence, soap opera and spectacle as successfully as

South Point hotel-casino has a rich motorsports history.

Speedway

South Point Hotel Flooring The Pedal With South Point 400 Title Sponsor Activations

July 25, 2018 Alan Snel Michael Gaughan

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com South Point, the Michael Gaughan-owned hotel-casino that loves rodeo and car racing, stepped up to

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.

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.