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New UNLV Basketball Coach Josh Pastner Makes Pit Stop At Aviators Game On Circuit To Sell Runnin’ Rebels Hoops To Vegas Market

May 29, 2025May 31, 2025 Alan Snel Barry Odom, Dan Mullen, Erick Harper, Fran Riordan, Josh Pastner, Kevin Kruger

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Las Vegas Aces Rally For Win Over Washington Before Another Packed House In Home-Opener Friday

May 24, 2025May 24, 2025 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Becky Hammon, Brittney Sykes, Chelsea Gray, Jewell Loyd, Kelsey Plum, Kiah Stokes, Mark Davis

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Las Vegas Aces Drop Season-Opener Against New York Liberty Saturday; LVSportsBiz.com Previews Aces Business Angles For 2025 Season

May 17, 2025 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Becky Hammon, Mark Davis, Nikki Fargas

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LVCVA Poised To Spend $2.7 Million On Sports Sponsorships For Girls Basketball Tourney, College Athletics Directors Meetings, Pickleball Events

May 10, 2025May 10, 2025 Alan Snel Steve Hill

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A’ja Wilson’s Nike Signature A’One Sneakers Celebrated During Aces-Phoenix Preseason Game Tuesday

May 6, 2025May 7, 2025 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Candace Parker, Mark Davis, Nikki Fargas

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NHL Playoff TV Ratings In U.S. Down From Last Year, While NBA’s Early Postseason Games Showing Increase Over 2024

April 23, 2025April 23, 2025 Alan Snel

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New UNLV Basketball Coach Josh Pastner Calls New Job A ‘Sleeping Giant,’ High-Energy Pastner Wants To Ignite City, Rejuvenate Once-Powerful Program

March 26, 2025 Alan Snel Chris Beard, Dan Mullen, Erick Harper, Josh Pastner, Kevin Kruger, Mick Cronin, T.J. Otzelberger

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UNLV Hires New Basketball Coach, Josh Pastner; New Basketball Tournament In Las Vegas Doles Out $500,000 In NIL Ambassador Money To Top Four Teams

March 25, 2025 Alan Snel Erick Harper, Josh Pastner, Kevin Kruger, T.J. Otzelberger

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Another Week Of Madness In Las Vegas: Four College Hoops Tourneys Wrap Up From Orleans Arena to Thomas & Mack To Henderson

March 15, 2025March 16, 2025 Alan Snel Dan Butterly, Erick Harper, Kevin Kruger

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UNLV Basketball Coach Wanted: Athletics Director Erick Harper Fires Kevin Kruger

March 15, 2025March 16, 2025 Alan Snel Barry Odom, Dan Mullen, Desiree Reed-Francois, Erick Harper, Kevin Kruger, T.J. Otzelberger

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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.

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.