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Ticket Sales Never Stop In Las Vegas As More Teams And Events Saturate Sports-Crazed Market

July 3, 2025July 3, 2025 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer LAS VEGAS, Nevada — There’s no down time for Las Vegas’ sports industry and the year-round

Clark County Commissioner Jim Gibson, who is chairman of the LVCVA board 0f directors. Photo credit: Hugh Byrne/LVSportsBiz.com

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LVCVA Rebidding Job For 2027 CFP Title Game In Vegas After Telling LVCVA Board Chair Jim Gibson In March That Bid Process Was Fine

June 30, 2025July 1, 2025 Alan Snel Brian Yost, Jeff Motley, Jim Gibson, Lisa Motley, Melissa Grossman, Steve Hill

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer LAS VEGAS, Nevada — It’s not every day the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA),

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After LVSportsBiz.com Reported LVCVA Contract Bid Irregularities, LVCVA VP Of Sports And Special Events Is No Longer With Las Vegas Public Tourism Agency

June 17, 2025June 18, 2025 Alan Snel Brian Yost, Brooks Downing, Jeff Motley, Lisa Motley, Melissa Grossman, Richard Manhattan, Steve Hill

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Steve Hill, LVCVA CEO

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LVCVA Decides To Re-Bid Request For Proposal On 2027 CFP Title Game Consulting Job After LVSportsBiz.com Reported Irregularities With Bidding Process

June 10, 2025June 10, 2025 Alan Snel Jeff Motley, Lisa Motley, Melissa Grossman, Steve Hill

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LVCVA Draws Scrutiny For Awarding CFP Championship Game Consulting Job To Company That Includes Former Husband Of LVCVA’s VP Of Sports

June 9, 2025February 13, 2026 Alan Snel Jeff Motley, Lisa Motley, Melissa Grossman, Michael Naft, Richard Manhattan, Steve Hill

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Fair Bidding? LVCVA Included Company In Travel Group For CFP Title Game A Month Before Same Sports Firm Submitted Bid To LVCVA To Work On CFP Title Game In Vegas

June 4, 2025June 5, 2025 Alan Snel Jeff Motley, Lisa Motley, Melissa Grossman, Richard Manhattan, Steve Hill

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Steve Hill, LVCVA CEO

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LVCVA Spent More Than $70,000 On Travel, Meals For College Football Championship Game Expenses; LVCVA Says Travel Part Of Research Protocol Of Staging Title Game In Vegas

May 13, 2025February 14, 2026 Alan Snel Adam Feldman, Brian Yost, Erick Harper, Jim Gibson, John Saccenti, Katie Wik, Lisa Motley, Michael Naft, Mike Newcomb, Rob Dondero, Steve DePue, Steve Hill

(Publisher’s Note: Why did we report this travel expenses story? The Las Vegas market ranks low compared to its peer

LVCVA CEO/President Steve Hill

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Pay To Play: LVCVA Approves $40 Million To Promote College Football National Championship Game At Allegiant Stadium In Jan. 2027

January 30, 2025January 30, 2025 Alan Snel Renee Wilm, Steve Hill

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Grambling State Vs Jackson State At Allegiant Stadium Oct. 25; LVCVA Approved $350,000 For ‘Las Vegas HBCU Classic’ Football Game

January 30, 2025January 30, 2025 Alan Snel Sandra Douglass Morgan

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Las Vegas Hooks Another Major Sports Event: College Football’s National Championship Game Set For Allegiant Stadium Jan. 25, 2027

January 24, 2025January 24, 2025 Alan Snel

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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.

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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.