Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

This dispensary ad sprouted at the Lights FC venue in downtown Las Vegas.

Lights

So Many Puns, But We’ll Pass On Them: LV Lights Soccer Team Has Deal With Marijuana Business

April 14, 2018April 14, 2018 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com They’re the new sports team in Las Vegas that’s taking joy in the unconventional.

Sports get under our skin. And on our skin, too.

Golden Knights T-Mobile Arena

Sports Get Under Our Skin — And On Our Skin, Too (In Other Words, You Will Like These VGK Photos)

April 14, 2018 Alan Snel

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Sports. There’s UFC fighter Conor McGregor throwing a dolly into a bus window and

Game over. Knights win in OT, 2-1.

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Scoring Big With Partisan VGK Crowds, And Pricy Tickets For Kings Fans; Vegas Wins In Double OT

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018 Alan Snel Erik Haula

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Another Golden Knights first — a double overtime playoff game that ended with a 2-1

Las Vegas is ready for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Photo credit: L.E. Baskow/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights

Las Vegas Is All In On Golden Knights, Stanley Cup Playoffs

April 13, 2018 Alan Snel Erik Haula, Gerard Gallant, Jon Merrill, William Carrier, William Karlsson

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Vegas Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant thought it was cool for the Bellagio on the

Photo credit: L.E. Baskow/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights T-Mobile Arena

Henderson Company Fabricates Giant Golden Knights Helmet Prop That Wowed Game 1 Crowd

April 12, 2018April 13, 2018 Alan Snel Alex Tuch, Jonny Greco, Marc Andre-Fleury, Robert Waroway

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Did you enjoy the 20-foot-tall Golden Knights helmet making a 45-second descent from the T-Mobile

The goal stood up. The Golden Knights defeated the Kings, 1-0. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights

New Playoff Ticket Strategy Keeps More Golden Knights Jerseys In Game 1 Crowd

April 11, 2018April 12, 2018 Alan Snel Cameron Hughes, Carnell Johnson, Gerard Gallant, Jonathan March

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The partisan crowd was mostly dressed in steel grey, a gigantic, glowing Golden Knights

Crowd igniter Cameron Hughes went from living in his dad's basement to becoming a crowd-pleaser. Photo credit: Daniel Clark

Golden Knights

Golden Knights ‘Crowd Igniter’ Says You Come To Las Vegas ‘With Permission To Be Crazy’

April 11, 2018April 12, 2018 Alan Snel Jonny Greco

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Cameron Hughes’ adult life has taken him from his dad’s basement in Ottawa to professional

Enjoy our photos.

Golden Knights

Game On For Stanley Cup Playoffs Today; LVSportsBiz’s Golden Knights Playoff Preview Via Photo

April 11, 2018 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Gerard Gallant, Kerry Bubolz, William Karlsson

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photographers Daniel Clark, Erik Ricardo and L.E. Baskow have captured the Vegas Golden Knights’

Suggestion to Vegas Golden Knights: Pick this local fella to sing the national anthem at Game 1 of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Golden Knights

LVSportsBiz Advice For Golden Knights: Enlist ‘Golden Pipes’ For National Anthem At Franchise’s First Playoff Game

April 10, 2018April 11, 2018 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Carnell Johnson

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com (Editor’s Note: LVSportsBiz.com has learned Carnell Johnson, also known as “Golden Pipes,” has been picked

The playoffs will bring a level of hockey and arena experience even more intense than the regular season. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights

Greatest Show On Ice In Las Vegas Will Get Even More Intense During Playoffs

April 9, 2018 Alan Snel Gerard Gallant, Jonathan Marchessault

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The Vegas Golden Knights have played some memorable games at home — the emotionally-charged season-opener;

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

UNLV’s sports conference — the Mountain West — has a new slogan and “refreshed brand identity.” Built Bold is the “new defining tagline.”

The Vegas Golden Knights Foundation said it raised $2,001,640 through the 51/49 Raffle during the 2025-26 season. All proceeds came from the team’s home games at T-Mobile Arena from the regular season and Stanley Cup Playoffs.

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.