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With Las Vegas Locals Making An Average $70K A Year, Can They Afford Vegas’ High End Sports Prices?

July 9, 2025July 10, 2025 Alan Snel Dave Kaval, John Fisher, Marc Badain

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The sports options in Las Vegas seem endless. But for Las Vegas,

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NBA Creates Spectacle Cup Event In Las Vegas, But Vegas Also Wants The Biggest Prize — An Expansion Team

December 17, 2024December 19, 2024 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Bill Foley, Doc Rivers

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Golden Knights owner Bill Foley in previous interview with LVSportsBiz.com. Photo credits: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

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VGK Owner Bill Foley Wants To Spend $300 Million On Updating T-Mobile Arena For Potential NBA Team, According To Vegas PBS Show Interview

December 6, 2024December 6, 2024 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Amber Dixon, Bill Foley, Gary Bettman, LeBron James, Tim Leiweke

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NBA Summer League organizer Warren LeGarie before tipoff of the final game Monday night at Thomas & Mack Center.

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Monday A Wrap For NBA Summer League In Las Vegas As Miami Heat Beat Memphis In OT For Summer Title

July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Albert Hall, Warren LeGarie

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NBA Shifting Gears On Technology Development To Enhance Its Global Product

July 16, 2024July 16, 2024 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Matas Buzelis, Tom Ryan, Tony Verutti

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NBA Commish Silver: Las Vegas Will Be In Running For NBA Franchise After Media Rights Deal Is Finalized; No Timeline For Potential Las Vegas Team To Start

July 16, 2024July 20, 2024 Alan Snel Adam Silver

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NBA Summer League Off To Solid Start In Vegas, With Association Commish Adam Silver Ready To Chat Tuesday

July 14, 2024July 22, 2024 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Tim Leiweke

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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.