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Las Vegas Aviators Open For Business In A Few Weeks May 6, Tickets On Sale Soon

April 16, 2021April 17, 2021 Alan Snel Don Logan, Steve Sisolak

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Las Vegas Aviators baseball team had its 2020 season wiped out because of the

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No Joy In Summerlin: COVID Causes Cancellation Of Tuesday’s UNLV Vs Arizona State Ballgame At Las Vegas Ballpark

April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 Alan Snel Desiree Reed-Francois, Don Logan

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It’s been more than 13 months since the gates have been open at Las Vegas

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Ballpark In Downtown Summerlin Scheduled To Come To Life With UNLV-Arizona State Game Tuesday

April 7, 2021 Alan Snel Don Logan

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Inside this $150 million minor league ballpark there are money-making amenities everywhere — a swanky

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Monday Morning Gambler: And Then There Were Two, Gonzaga And Baylor

April 5, 2021April 5, 2021 Alan Snel Bryson DeChambeau, Pete DeBoer

By Dan Behringer for LVSportsBiz.com From the Sweet Sixteen to the Elite Eight to the Final Four, we are down

LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 08: code during the 19th Annual DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals on April 8, 2018 at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Speer/Icon Sportswire)

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Las Vegas Motor Speedway Allowed To Have 50 Percent Fan Capacity For NHRA Event In April, While Aviators Prez Donny Baseball Hopes For 50 Percent Capacity At Ballpark In Summerlin

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 Alan Snel Don Logan, Steve Sisolak

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com After officials limited Las Vegas Motor Speedway to 15 percent attendance capacity (12,500 fans)

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COVID-19 Prompts Las Vegas Aviators Season To Start In May

March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Las Vegas Aviators, the Triple-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics, are now scheduled to

The Aviators ballpark in Downtown Summerlin

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Las Vegas Aviators’ Home-Opener Scheduled For April 15

February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com After leading all minor league teams in attendance in 2019 only to have their 2020

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LVSportsBiz’s 2020 Year In Review: A Stadium Is Born, Coping With COVID-19 And Different Paths To Racial Justice

December 18, 2020December 20, 2020 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Dana White, Mark Davis

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com A highly-contagious worldwide virus shut down sports in Las Vegas for several months in 2020

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COVID-19 and Sports: Las Vegas Aviators Prez Logan Says 2 Marlins Players ‘Caused All This Grief’ For MLB’s Miami Marlins

August 1, 2020 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Brian Killingsworth, Don Logan, George McPhee

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The COVID-19 outbreak at the Miami Marlins was caused by two players who did not

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COVID-19 and Sports: Minor League Baseball and Las Vegas Aviators Are Shut Out In 2020

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 Alan Snel Don Logan, Pat O'Conner

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com There’s no joy in Downtown Summerlin today. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the 2020 Minor

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.

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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

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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.