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Lights 

Las Vegas Lights Return to Preseason Pitch Saturday for Second Year of Wacky Promotions and More Stable Roster

February 1, 2019 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Eric Wynalda

  By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com   Las Vegas’ zany professional soccer team promises to return the helicopter cash drop during

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Lights 

Inside Las Vegas Sports Marketing: Lights FC Owner Brett Lashbrook Says Expect More Zaniness in Year 2

January 15, 2019February 8, 2019 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com   Brett Lashbrook brought professional soccer to downtown Las Vegas and fans responded well with crowds

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The Las Vegas Lights FC is known for its wacky marketing stunts like the helicopter cash drop at halftime of a game last season. Photo credit: J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com
Lights 

Lights Return to Wacky Marketing Ways, Searching for World’s ‘Most Interesting Player’

December 6, 2018 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Eric Wynalda

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com   You get the sense that Brett Lashbrook was probably having a little marketing withdrawal this

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Lights 

Lights Owner: On-Field Performance Has To Match Off-Field Success

October 19, 2018October 19, 2018 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Eric Wynalda

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com   He looked like an older college student, sitting at a work cubicle in a co-working

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Lights 

Lights’ New Coach Wants to Stabilize Roster and Forge Stronger Connections with Las Vegas

October 18, 2018 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Eric Wynalda

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com   It was the inaugural season for the Las Vegas Lights FC and the soccer team

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Helicopter drops cash at halftime of Lights FC-LA Galaxy 2 game at Cashman Field. Photo credit: J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com
Golden Knights Lights UNLV 

Heat Is On For UNLV Football To Win But Also Draw Fans As Lights’ Cash Drop and VGK Rookie Game Bring Crowds Saturday

September 8, 2018September 8, 2018 Alan Snel Desiree Reed-Francois

  By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com   It was a toasty 106 degrees on the Sam Boyd Stadium field when UNLV’s

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Last Triple-A ballgame was played today at Cashman Field.
51s Aviators Lights 

Las Vegas Lights Waiting For 51s To Give 60-Day Lease Termination Notice To Leave Cashman So Soccer Team Can Make Venue Improvements

September 3, 2018January 31, 2019 Alan Snel Brett Lashbook, Don Logan

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com   The Las Vegas 51s said Monday’s Labor Day game was the final Triple-A baseball game

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A video grab from the Samford University helicopter cash drop after a college baseball game in 2014.
Lights 

Lights FC To Beef Up Security For Saturday’s Helicopter Cash Drop Promotion At Cashman Field

September 2, 2018September 2, 2018 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com   The Las Vegas Lights FC is beefing up security for Saturday night’s half-time promotion that

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Vegas Golden Knights are the big dogs of Las Vegas' sports world.
Golden Knights Lights UNLV 

With Golden Knights Ruling Las Vegas, Other Sports Resort To Luring Fans With Money, Swimming Pool, All-you-can-eat Nachos/Hot Dogs

August 28, 2018 Alan Snel Canelo Alvarez, Gennady Golovkin

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com   Nobody expected the Vegas Golden Knights to make a miracle run to the Stanley Cup

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LVSportsBiz.com interviews longtime Las Vegas lawyer Ed Bernstein about his sports sponsorship deals Monday morning.
Golden Knights Lights UNLV 

Longtime Las Vegas Lawyer Beefs Up Local Sports Sponsorship Deals

August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Dana White, Ed Bernstein

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com   Ed Bernstein is no stranger to advertising his legal services.   The lawyer who grew

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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. And like the Vegas Golden Knights, LVSportsBiz.com is celebrating its tenth birthday in 2027.

LVSportsBiz.com’s Written Word Series: Our storytelling focuses on original story lines.

June 2024: A father’s connection

June 2026: Baseball and the radio

April 2018: NHL team born in the desert

March 2020: Gratitude for being alive

June 2017: Birth of a website

August 2026: Team president does it all

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A’s stadium premium club sold out: Athletics say their new stadium’s exclusive club called the Athletic Club behind home plate is sold out, with 76 percent of the buyers from Southern Nevada. The A’s plan on opening their domed $2.1 billion stadium on the Strip in 2028.

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LVSportsBiz.com coverage of Athletics stadium project on Strip in Las Vegas.  

A’s owner John Fisher in Las Vegas

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

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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

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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.

 

 

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