Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

The owners of the Los Angeles Kings like it when T-Mobile Arena makes money.

Golden Knights and LA Kings Have Complicated Business Relationship: Their Team Owners Both Own A Piece of T-Mobile Arena

December 27, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Philip Anschutz

By ALAN SNEL LOS ANGELES — A prime division rival for the Vegas Golden Knights is the Los Angeles

UFC lined up many new corporate partnership deals this year. This scene is from a hallway at UFC's new headquarters that opened earlier this year.

UFC

UFC Scored Numerous Sponsorship Deals in 2017

December 25, 2017December 26, 2017 Alan Snel Dana White, Floyd Mayweather, Lawrence Epstein

By ALAN SNEL Poor UFC. After selling for more than $4 billion and opening a gorgeous new corporate

Golden Knights business side is helping team convert its efforts into victories. Photo credit: Erik John Ricardo/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights

Golden Knights’ Perron: Business Support Inside Franchise Translating Into Wins

December 23, 2017December 24, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Foley, David Perron

By ALAN SNEL David Perron was in his black tights and black long-sleeved shirt after tonight’s whitewash win

Golden Knights President Kerry Bubolz . Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights T-Mobile Arena

Golden Knights Prez: One-Year Season Ticket Holders Face 5% Ticket Price Increase and $3/Ticket Arena Charge for 2018-19

December 22, 2017December 23, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Kerry Bubolz, Todd Pollock

By ALAN SNEL For you 14,000 Golden Knights season ticket holders out there, there was some good news and

UNLV legal fees for a stadium use deal at the new Raiders stadium is approaching $200,000. Photo credit: Erik John Ricardo/LVSportsBiz.com

Raiders Stadium UNLV

UNLV Legal Fees to Negotiate Raiders Stadium Use Deal Nearing $200,000

December 22, 2017December 22, 2017 Alan Snel Cynthia Brown, Len Jessup

By ALAN SNEL UNLV’s legal costs to negotiate the use of the Raiders’ new football stadium about two miles

I have reported on team owners in different markets and I don't know another owner who smiles and laughs more than Bill Foley. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Players Appreciate Owner Foley’s Presence Around the Team

December 21, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Brendan Leipsic, Gerard Gallant, Jon Merrill, Jonathan Marchessault, William Carrier, William Karlsson

By ALAN SNEL He hangs out with the hockey players at breakfast. He comes down to the locker room

Happy Holidays everyone. It's a privilege to report and write every day for LVSportsBiz.com

Column

Your LVSportsBiz Holiday Gift: Our Best Photos Since Launching in June

December 21, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Kerry Bubolz

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com has carved out a journalism niche in a town exploding with sports-business news, including photography

Golden Knights owner Bill Foley is pictured here. The VGK's foe, the Tampa Bay Lightning, also has a dynamic owner, Jeff Vinik. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights

Golden Knights-Lightning Matchup Brings Together Two Fascinating NHL Team Owners and Business Minds: Foley, Vinik

December 19, 2017December 19, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Jeff Vinik

By ALAN SNEL Not only is tonight’s Vegas Golden Knights-Tampa Bay Lightning hockey game a fascinating match-up of two

This is the 18th home at the Wynn Golf Course.

Golf

Wynn Golf Course Kept Open For 1 Extra Week For Employees With A Pay-to-Play Catch

December 19, 2017December 19, 2017 Alan Snel Steve Wynn

By DENNIS SILVERS We’re saying good-bye to the famed Wynn Golf Course on the Strip, but it did get

Local 872 leader Tommy White said he wants members to be in the position to enjoy the market's growth of sports. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Lights Raiders Team T-Mobile Arena

Local 872 Building Sports Resume, Adding New Broadcast Studio and Partnering With Las Vegas Lights Soccer Club

December 18, 2017December 18, 2017 Alan Snel Tommy White

By ALAN SNEL Everyone from MGM Resorts International to Howard Hughes Corp. to hotel-casino owner Derek Stevens is hitching

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.