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MGM Resorts International President Bill Hornbuckle celebrates next to Raiders owner Mark Davis after a fan made a promotion shot during a break in the Aces win Saturday night.

Aces Aviators

Las Vegas’ Busy Sports Night With Aces, Aviators, Lights In Action

June 22, 2019 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell Raiders owner Mark Davis and MGM Resorts Intl

Beer Chugging in Las Vegas: Both Las Vegas Aces and Las Vegas Aviators Stage Beer Promotions Thursday Night

June 20, 2019June 21, 2019 Alan Snel Bill Laimbeer

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell Not only did the Las Vegas Aces

Lights coach Eric Wynalda

Aviators Esports Gambling Golden Knights UNLV

LVSportsBiz.com’s Around The Horn With Items on VGK, UNLV Hoops, Lights, Aviators, eSports,

May 28, 2019 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Some choice tidbits as we move into the final week of May. UNLV and

Aviators Gambling

On Sports Betting: Take Me Out To The Ballgame On A Cool, Breezy Night In Las Vegas

May 27, 2019 Alan Snel

By Daniel Behringer LVSportsBiz.com It wasn’t exactly the perfect evening for baseball. Gray and ominous hung in the sky.

Aces Aviators UNLV

Wilson, Otzelberger Make Pitches To Make Basketball Big-Time Again In Las Vegas

May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, T.J. Otzelberger

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com A’ja Wilson is a gifted 22-year-old basketball player from South Carolina and and T.J. Otzelberger

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Aviators Continue Selling Out Games and Selling Thousands of Beers on $2 Beer Nights

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com The ballpark sellouts and the massive sales of $2 beers on Thursday beer nights just

Photo credits: Tom Donoghue

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Aviators Draw Season-High Crowd of 12,111 For Annual School District Day Game Tuesday

May 14, 2019 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com The Las Vegas Aviators are leading the 30 teams of Triple A baseball in total

From left to right: VGK's Kerry Bubolz, Raiders' Marc Badain, Lights FC's Brett Lashbrook, Aviators' Don Logan and UFC's Lawrence Epstein at Las Vegas Property Development and Infrastructure Conference panel discussion at South Point Wednesday.

Aviators Golden Knights Lights Raiders Team UFC

Las Vegas Sports Execs Schmooze About Sports’ Local Impacts

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Don Logan, Kerry Bubolz, Lawrence Epstein, Marc Badain

Left to right: Logan, Epstein, Lashbrook, Bubolz and Badain By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Now that Las Vegas is

Unusual scene at Aviators ballpark -- non-sellout.

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Aviators’ Consecutive Sellouts Broken Monday Night

May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com It was a strong crowd for a Monday night game, but the Las Vegas Aviators’

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Aviators Roll Out Reyes de Plata Uniforms On Cinco de Mayo Sunday

May 5, 2019May 5, 2019 Alan Snel Don Logan, Jason Weber

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Eddie Ybarra came to the Las Vegas Aviators’ new ballpark in his Reyes de Plata

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

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.