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In 2020, ESPN's Dick Vitale was in the house at Orleans Arena as Gonzaga wiped out Pepperdine, 100-74.

Fans of Top-Ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs Travel to Vegas for Game Tickets They Can’t Buy Back Home in Washington

March 11, 2019March 11, 2019 Alan Snel Adam Morrison, Dick Vitale, Landon Kissinger, Mark Few, Zack Brown

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell Tickets to watch the nation’s top-ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs

There's Pepperdine radio broadcaster Al Epstein, doing his 1,035th straight radio broadcast Friday night.

Basketball

Parade of College Basketball Tournaments Starts in Las Vegas This Week With West Coast Conference At Orleans Arena

March 8, 2019March 8, 2019 Alan Snel Al Epstein, Gloria Nevarez

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell It’s that time of year in Las Vegas

Basketball

NBA Commish Silver Talks Twitter, But Sidesteps Questions on Las Vegas Franchise and Sports Betting

January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 Alan Snel Adam Silver, David Levy, Jim Murren, Kerry Bubolz, LeBron James

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Adam Silver is easy to pick out. Just look for the skinny, tall, head-shaven

Aces Golden Knights UNLV

LVSportsBiz.com’s Top Dozen Las Vegas Fan Photos from 2018: Happy 2019 to our Readers

December 31, 2018 Alan Snel

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com takes pride in reporting the news behind the sports action — whether it be

The WCC basketball tourney at Orleans Arena

Basketball

West Coast Conference Negotiating to Keep Hoops Tourney in Las Vegas

October 18, 2018 Alan Snel Gloria Nevarez

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The West Coast Conference is staging its 11th basketball tournament in Las Vegas in March

New Triple-A ballpark being built thanks to LVCVA $80 million contribution for naming rights of Las Vegas Ballpark.

51s Aces Aviators LVCVA National Finals Rodeo Speedway Sports Tourism

LVCVA Enriches Las Vegas’ Older Sports, While New Teams Get Much Less

September 7, 2018January 31, 2019 Alan Snel Rossi Ralenkotter, Steve Hill

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is your local tourism agency in Las Vegas

The NBA has reached a historic sports gambling partnership with Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts International.

Basketball Gambling

With MGM Resorts and NBA Forging Historic Sports Betting Partnership, When Will This Romance Conceive An NBA Team For MGM’s T-Mobile Arena?

July 31, 2018July 31, 2018 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Jim Murren

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Now that we have learned that MGM Resorts International has become the official sports betting

51s Aviators Basketball Raiders Stadium

LVSportsBiz’s Sunday Insider Look At Las Vegas’ Sports-Business Scene

July 21, 2018January 31, 2019 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Don Logan, Jim Murren

(Publisher’s Note: LVSportsBiz.com will be talking sports-business with KSNV News 3 Sports Anchor Randy Howe Sunday night after the 11

LVSportsBiz.com photos by Daniel Clark

NBA Summer League

NBA Summer League Breaks Attendance Record In Vegas, Drawing 139,972 For 12 Days

July 17, 2018July 17, 2018 Alan Snel

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The NBA Summer League broke its attendance record with Monday’s two semi-final games

Former NBA player and coach Johnny Davis is attending a Kellogg business seminar to learn how to launch a new sports psychology counseling business.

Basketball

Retired NBA Players Organization Aims To Help Former Pros Transition To Business World

July 11, 2018July 11, 2018 Alan Snel Doug Lee, Johnny Davis, Scott Rochelle, Willie Burton

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Former NBA player and coach Johnny Davis has a sports psychology masters degree and would

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

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.