Alan Snel, Author at LVSportsBiz

Veteran Las Vegas Bowl Participant Utah Takes On Northwestern In Bowl Game Saturday, With 30K-35K Fans Expected At Allegiant Stadium

December 22, 2023December 23, 2023 Alan Snel Kyle Whittingham

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer With the Las Vegas sports landscape changing rapidly these days, there is always two December

Raiders owner Mark Davis watches team president Sandra Douglass Morgan shakes hands with Raiders player Josh Jacobs. Photo: J. Tyge O'Donnell

Golden Knights Mark Davis Raiders UNLV WNBA WNBA Aces

Faces Tell Las Vegas Sports Story In 2023: LVSportsBiz.com Photographers’ Best Photos Featured In Year-end Feature

December 22, 2023December 22, 2023 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Antonio Pierce, Barry Odom, George Toma, Josh Jacobs, Mark Davis, Sandra Douglass Morgan, Will Carrier

By LVSportsBiz.com Staff The year in pictures. LVSportsBiz.com photographers J. Tyge O’Donnell, Hugh Byrne, Jeff Goulding captured these baker’s dozen

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (left) and Raiders President Sandra Douglass Morgan (right) at a recent Las Vegas Super Bowl Host Committee breakfast in Las Vegas.

Allegiant Stadium Formula 1 Formula One NFL Raiders Raiders Stadium Raiders Team Sports Marketing Stadiums/Arenas (General) Super Bowl UFC

LVSportsBiz.com’s New Policy: Economic Impact Numbers Related To Sports Events, Teams, Stadiums Will No Longer Be Published Without Explanation On How Impact Numbers Were Reached

December 20, 2023December 21, 2023 Alan Snel Greg Maffei, Jeremy Aguero, Roger Goodell, Sandra Douglass Morgan, Steve Hill

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer LVSportsBiz.com today released a new editorial policy regarding publishing information about “economic impact” numbers put

Allegiant Stadium NFL Raiders Raiders Stadium Raiders Team

Raiders Lead NFL In Average Ticket Price ($168.83), Family-of-Four Costs ($801.20) For 2023, According To Sports Marketing Group Tracking Fan Costs

December 19, 2023 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer The Las Vegas Raiders typically don’t win enough games to qualify for the National

VGK goalie Adin Hill is back.

Golden Knights NHL T-Mobile Arena

Golden Knights Overpower Ottawa For 6-3 Win In Last Home Game Before Christmas; Attendance Announced At 17,892

December 17, 2023December 17, 2023 Alan Snel Adin Hill, Brady Tkachuk, Chandler Stephenson, Ivan Barbashev, Jack Eichel, Joonas Korpisalo, Logan Thompson, Nic Roy, William Karlsson

Story by Alan Snel Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell The Vegas Golden Knights enjoyed a 5-2 lead heading into

National Finals Rodeo Sports Marketing Sports Tourism Thomas & Mack Center Travel UNLV

National Finals Rodeo Wraps Up Annual Visit To Las Vegas Saturday With 157,580 Fans For Nine Rounds, Average 17,509 A Night

December 16, 2023December 16, 2023 Alan Snel Steve Hill, Tim Keener, Tom Glause

Story by Alan Snel Photos by Jeff Goulding For many years in Las Vegas, the National Finals Rodeo,

UFC bossman Dana White in action this week. Photo: Cassandra Cousineau/LVSportsBiz.com

Dana White MSG Sphere Sphere T-Mobile Arena UFC WWE

UFC Brand Generates Revenues But Also Infantile Pre-Fight Press Conferences As Fight Show Promoter Closes 2023 With UFC 296 At T-Mobile Arena

December 16, 2023December 16, 2023 Alan Snel Colby Covington, Dana White, Leon Edwards, Sean Strickland, Tony Ferguson

By Cassandra Cousineau, LVSportsBiz.com UFC Writer Numbers don’t lie. However, they can be confusing. As Las Vegas-based Ultimate Fighting Championship

Golden Knights NHL T-Mobile Arena

Golden Knights Blow Another Third Period Lead As Buffalo Sabres Score Four Straight For 5-2 Win Friday; Attendance Announced At 18,008

December 15, 2023December 15, 2023 Alan Snel Alex Tuch, Bruce Cassidy, Casey Mittelstadt, Devon Levi, Dylan Cozens, Logan Thompson, Paul Cotter, Zach Benson

Story by Alan Snel Photos by Hugh Byrne After Tuesday’s Knights’ 5-4 win over the Calgary Flames, I

Allegiant Stadium Athletics NFL Raiders Raiders Stadium Raiders Team

Raiders Went From Wrong Side Of History Sunday To Right Side Of History Thursday With Historic 63-21 Win Over Division Rival Chargers In Prime Time

December 14, 2023December 14, 2023 Alan Snel Aidan O'Connell, Ameer Abdullah, Antonio Pierce, Brandon Bolden, Jack Jones, Jakobi Meyers, Josh Jacobs, Justin Herbert, Mark Davis, Sandra Douglass Morgan, Tre Tucker, Wayne Mabry, Zamir White

Story by Alan Snel Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell Raiders owner Mark Davis was stunned. So was

National Finals Rodeo Sports Marketing Sports Tourism Thomas & Mack Center UNLV

National Finals Rodeo Averaging 17,454 Fans A Night With Three Performances To Go In Las Vegas

December 13, 2023December 13, 2023 Alan Snel Tim Keener

Story by Alan Snel Photos by Jeff Goulding This time, Las Vegas Events and the pro rodeo cowboys took

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.

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.