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By DANIEL BEHRINGER LVSportsBiz.com You gotta love the holiday season. There’s good times, great friends, delicious food and college football

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On Sports Betting: No Betting Allowed and Other ‘Rules’ to Consider

December 17, 2018December 17, 2018 Alan Snel

By DANIEL BEHRINGER LVSportsBiz.com The NBA is not for the faint-hearted sports bettor. NBA translates to “No Betting Allowed,”

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On Sports Betting: Maybe the Sharps Aren’t the Real Wiseguys After All

December 4, 2018December 4, 2018 Alan Snel

By DANIEL BEHRINGER LVSportsBiz.com So much for the sharps. And squares who want to think like sharps. The line

Photo credit: Daniel Clark

Gambling Jim Murren

Another Sports Partnership for MGM Resorts–This Time, Big League Baseball

November 27, 2018November 27, 2018 Alan Snel Jim Murren, Nehme Abouzeid, Robert Manfred

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com This time, it’s Major League Baseball’s logos you will see in MGM Resorts International’s advertisements

Photo credit: J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com

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On Sports Betting: Of Duke and Dunks and Rivalry Games

November 26, 2018 Alan Snel Benjamin Franklin

By DANIEL BEHRINGER LVSportsBiz.com Late Monday afternoon, we were in line at one of the local shops with the

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On Sports Betting: Lighter Moment Punctuates Week of Sports Betting

November 19, 2018 Alan Snel Marc Andre-Fleury

By DANIEL BEHRINGER LVSportsBiz.com Toward the end of week 10 in the NFL, we witnessed an unusual conversation regarding

The Golden Knights in action against Ottawa at T-Mobile Arena this season. Photo credit: J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com

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On Sports Betting: College Hoops Join an Already Crowded Sports Book Board

November 12, 2018November 12, 2018 Alan Snel

By DANIEL BEHRINGER LVSportsBiz.com A few days before last week’s Monday Night Football game with the Tennessee Titans and the

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On Sports Betting: You never know which way the ball bounces in the NBA

November 5, 2018November 5, 2018 Alan Snel Nick Mullens

By DANIEL BEHRINGER LVSportsBiz.com Sometime last Monday, we looked at a website and saw the Golden State Warriors were leading

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MGM Resorts International Becomes New York Jets’ Official Gaming Partner

October 31, 2018October 31, 2018 Alan Snel Gary Bettman, Jim Murren, Neil Glat

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com It seems like Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts International can’t go a day without announcing another

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman in Las Vegas. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

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MGM Resorts Scores Another Sports Gambling Deal — This Time, It’s the NHL

October 29, 2018October 29, 2018 Alan Snel Gary Bettman, Jim Murren

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts International made another splash in the sports gambling arena by cutting

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

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.