Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

Aces coach Bill Laimbeer gives the team last-minute instructions before tip-off at the Aces' first preseason game.

Las Vegas’ New WNBA Club Shows Its Hand With Aces On The Hardwood and With Entertainment

May 6, 2018 Alan Snel Brooke Johnson, Chet Buchanan, Lance Evans, Rushia Brown

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com It was the Las Vegas Aces’ big day. The re-branded WBNA team was making its

Jose Luis Sanchez Sola, also known as El Chelis, is suspended and can't coach. But he takes in Saturday night's game from the upper concourse at Cashman Field.

Lights

LV Lights FC Pushing Entertainment Norms To Enhance Soccer Product On Field In Vegas

May 5, 2018May 5, 2018 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, El Chelis, Jose Luis Sanchez Sola

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Jose Luis Sanchez Sola wasn’t on the field Saturday night to coach the Las Vegas

Golden Knights fans include famed rocker Vince Neil and The D owner and downtown Las Vegas developer Derek Stevens. Photo credit: L.E. Baskow/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Mania Sweeping Through Las Vegas, Team Sets Game Attendance Record With 18,693 In Game 5 Win Over Sharks

May 4, 2018May 5, 2018 Alan Snel Derek Stevens, Vince Neil

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com If you’re living in Las Vegas these days, it’s easy to feel like you’re an

Lance Evans is the MGM Resorts International business point man on the launch of the Las Vegas Aces in the WNBA team's new market.

WNBA Aces

Las Vegas’ New WNBA Team Prepares To Deal Aces For Fans This Month

May 3, 2018 Alan Snel Jake Wagner, Jonny Greco, Lance Evans

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com As the Vegas Golden Knights worm their way into your heart — and your wallet/purse

Golden Knights T-Mobile Arena

Golden Knights Tickets On Secondary Market Will Not Come Cheap For Game 5 At T-Mobile Arena Friday

May 2, 2018May 2, 2018 Alan Snel William Karlsson

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Some things to ponder after the San Jose Sharks shut down the Vegas Golden

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

51s Aviators Golden Knights T-Mobile Arena WNBA Aces

On A Rainy Las Vegas Morning, LVSportsBiz Has Only Questions (For Now)

May 2, 2018January 31, 2019 Alan Snel William Karlsson

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Sometimes, I wake up and I have no answers. Just questions. Here is LVSportsBiz.com’s Top

Raiders President Marc Badain. Photo credits: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Raiders Stadium Raiders Team

Raiders Stadium In Las Vegas Has Intriguing Players Behind Process

May 1, 2018 Alan Snel Al Davis, Kenny Stabler, Marc Badain, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Sisolak, Ted Hendricks, Tommy White

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Back in the day when the Raiders were an NFL powerhouse, the team not

Jason Griego celebrates Golden Knights' OT win over the San Jose Sharks with friend Travis Ebarb at Brando's Bar Monday night. Photo credit: L.E., Baskow/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights

Golden Knights’ Wolverine Fan Celebrates OT Win At Vegas’ Hockey Bar

April 30, 2018May 1, 2018 Alan Snel Anthony Brandonisio, Jason Griego, William Karlsson

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The story behind the Vegas Golden Knights’ most recognizable fan began last September when

You can assume the Elvis guys are Golden Knights fans. Photo credit: L.E. Baskow/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights

Record-Setting Crowd As Golden Knights Lose To Sharks In OT

April 28, 2018 Alan Snel Kerry Bubolz

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The Vegas Golden Knights keep packing them in and generating millions of dollars of gate

Marc-Andre Fleury leads Golden Knights on to the ice Thursday night. Photo credit: L.E. Baskow/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights

Fleury Star Power Could Be A Marketing Campaign, But Golden Knights Choose To Market Team Over Individual

April 28, 2018April 28, 2018 Alan Snel Alex Tuch, Brian Killings, David Perron, Gerard Gallant, Jonathan Marchessault, Marc Andre-Fleury

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com After the Vegas Golden Knights’ shutout shellacking of the San Jose Sharks, 7-0, in

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.