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Lights technical director and entertainer Jose Luis Sanchez Sola at Saturday's 2-2 tie with Fresno FC. Photo credit: L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Lights FC

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Lights Enduring Mediocre First Season, But Dispensary and Gambling Deals Plus $5,000 Cash Drop Sept. 8 Give Fans Something To Talk About

August 26, 2018 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Jose Luis Sanchez Sola, Ricardo Ferrino

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com When your local soccer team has a miserable record of seven wins, 12 losses and

The mascots for Las Vegas sports teams gathered Saturday night at the Las Vegas Lights soccer match. Photo credit: J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com

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Mascots Endure Sweltering Conditions At Las Vegas Lights Game; First Time All Five LV Mascots Gather

August 5, 2018August 5, 2018 Alan Snel Clint McComb

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com It’s a beastly, 100-degree-plus heat on the pitch at Cashman Field, where the Las

NBA Summer League Day 2 was a sellout of 17,500, including this big crowd watching the Suns-Kings game.

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NBA Summer League Day 2 and UFC 226 Are Sellouts, While WNBA Aces’ Attendance Is Down Saturday

July 7, 2018July 8, 2018 Alan Snel Lance Evans, Marc Andre-Fleury

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The Las Vegas Golden Knights finished their season a month ago, the Las Vegas Raiders

The new dispensary advertisement sign installed by the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe for Saturday night's game.

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Dispensary Advertisement At LV Lights Soccer Stadium Returns With New Obtuse Message To Comply With State

June 16, 2018June 16, 2018 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Dave Colvin

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The Las Vegas Paiute Tribe’s dispensary advertisement sign at the Las Vegas Lights FC game

William Hill is teaming up with the LV Lights to have sports betting on Lights games. Photo credit: Erik John Ricardo/LVSportsBiz.com

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LV Lights FC Soccer Team Partners With William Hill On Sports Betting Deal

June 13, 2018 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com We all knew sports gambling would be coming to Las Vegas Lights games. LVSportsBiz.com broke

This NuWu dispensary sign was removed from the Las Vegas Lights game Saturday and will be updated with a new message for a June 2 home game.

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Marijuana Dispensary Advertisement At LV Lights’ Stadium Removed To Be Updated With New Message

May 22, 2018May 22, 2018 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Dave Colvin

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The Las Vegas Lights FC scored lots of free buzz in April when the first-year

Jose Luis Sanchez Sola, also known as El Chelis, is suspended and can't coach. But he takes in Saturday night's game from the upper concourse at Cashman Field.

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LV Lights FC Pushing Entertainment Norms To Enhance Soccer Product On Field In Vegas

May 5, 2018May 5, 2018 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, El Chelis, Jose Luis Sanchez Sola

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Jose Luis Sanchez Sola wasn’t on the field Saturday night to coach the Las Vegas

The Las Vegas team and speedway reps sit shoulder-to-shoulder at a Latin Chamber of Commerce luncheon at Nevada State College Friday.

51s Aviators Golden Knights Lights Raiders Stadium Speedway WNBA Aces

Latin Chamber Brings Together Vegas’ Teams Plus Speedway For Lunch Panel Chat

April 27, 2018January 31, 2019 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Chuck Johnson, Daniel Tafoya, Edith Fernandez, Jeff Motley, Kerry Bubolz, Marc Badain, Peter Guzman, Rushia Brown

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Most days they’re busy building stadiums, collecting revenues from NHL Stanley Cup playoff games,

This dispensary ad sprouted at the Lights FC venue in downtown Las Vegas.

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So Many Puns, But We’ll Pass On Them: LV Lights Soccer Team Has Deal With Marijuana Business

April 14, 2018April 14, 2018 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com They’re the new sports team in Las Vegas that’s taking joy in the unconventional.

El Chelis says don't say, "puto," at Lights games.

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El Chelis Tells Fans On Video Released Friday To Stop Shouting ‘Puto’ Slur At Las Vegas Lights Soccer Games

March 30, 2018March 30, 2018 Alan Snel El Chelis, Joel Huiqui

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com suggested a month ago the Las Vegas Lights’ colorful coach/technical director, El Chelis, tell

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.

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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.

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.