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NBA Cup Taking Hold In Third Year With Semis, Final In Las Vegas; Knicks Beat Orlando To Play Spurs After OKC Suffers Second Loss Of Season

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Karl-Anthony Towns, Mike Brown, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Victor Wembanyama

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Rough Week For Runnin’ Rebels At Hoops Tourney In Las Vegas; Stadium Authority Meets Dec. 4

November 27, 2025November 27, 2025 Alan Snel Josh Pastner

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High-Scoring Runnin’ Rebels Trying To Gel (And Overcome Injuries) While Also Attracting Fans To Thomas & Mack Under New Coach Pastner

November 20, 2025November 20, 2025 Alan Snel Dan Mullen, Dravyn Gibbs-Lawhorn, Josh Pastner, Kevin Kruger, Marvin Menzies, T.J. Otzelberger, Tyrin Jones

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Las Vegas Aces Two Wins From Garnering Their Third WNBA Crown In Four Years; Young, Wilson Combine For 60 Points In Game 2 Win Over Phoenix Sunday

October 5, 2025October 5, 2025 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Jackie Young, Mark Davis

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Aces 89 Phoenix 86 Finals Game 1: Embattled Engelbert Falls Back On Corporate Playbook Of Denying Collier’s Explosive Claims, Citing Inaccuracies In Media Reports About Her WNBA Leadership

October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 Adelaide Chen A'ja Wilson, Alyssa Thomas, Becky Hammon, Cathy Engelbert, Dana Evans, Jewell Loyd, Kahleah Cooper, Napheesa Collier

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WNBA Aces Getting Back On Track With Third Straight Win Tuesday, Draw Packed House Of 10,361

July 23, 2025July 23, 2025 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Becky Hammon, Dana Evans, Jackie Young, Mark Davis

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NBA Commish Adam Silver

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NBA Summer League Attendance In Las Vegas July 10-20 Hits 136,130

July 21, 2025July 21, 2025 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Bill Foley

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Las Vegas Will Have To Wait: NBA Will Conduct In-Depth Analysis Of Expansion, But No Timeline And Expansion Fee Set

July 15, 2025July 15, 2025 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Bill Foley

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Erik Anderson, CEO of "smart" basketball technology company Sport IQ (SIQ). Photo credits: LVSportsBiz.com

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NBA ‘Launchpad’ Starting Five: League’s Annual Program Showcases Inventive, Entrepreneurial Companies To Grow Basketball Innovations

July 14, 2025July 15, 2025 Alan Snel Adam Silver

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NBA Is Here In Las Vegas! The Summer League, Not A Team (Yet)

July 11, 2025July 13, 2025 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Albert Hall, Bill Foley, Cooper Flagg, LeBron James, Warren LeGarie

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The Woodstock of

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.

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

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.