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COVID-19 Raiders Stadium Raiders Team 

Raiders Owner Mark Davis Finally Watches Home Game In Person In Las Vegas Saturday

August 13, 2021August 25, 2021 Alan Snel Marc Badain, Mark Davis

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Mark Davis has been inside Allegiant Stadium before, but this time it’s for a Raiders

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LVSportsBiz.com Photographer Makes It To The Big Leagues

August 13, 2021August 14, 2021 Alan Snel Daniel Clark, Tyge O'Donnell

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Just about every story on LVSportsBiz,com documents news in the crossover category of sports, business

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COVID-19 Raiders Stadium Raiders Team 

Raiders Coach Gruden On Fans Witnessing Game At Allegiant Stadium For First Time Saturday: ‘It Gives You Goosebumps’

August 12, 2021 Alan Snel Jon Gruden

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com First, the fans came to Allegiant Stadium Sunday to see the Las Vegas Raiders practice

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Marc Badain
Raiders Stadium Raiders Team 

With Allegiant Stadium Ribbon-Cutting Three Days Away, What Will Be Marc Badain’s Next Job? (Probably Not UNLV Athletic Director)

August 11, 2021August 11, 2021 Alan Snel Brian Sandoval, Dan Ventrelle, Desiree Reed-Francois, Marc Badain

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The casual Raiders fan is probably more concerned about getting to and leaving Allegiant Stadium

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Raiders Stadium Raiders Team 

Secondary Market Ticket Prices For Raiders’ First Preseason Game With Fans At Allegiant Stadium Saturday Are Soaring

August 10, 2021August 10, 2021 Alan Snel Mark Davis

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com For many money-making investors who bought Raiders personal seat licenses and season ticket in hopes

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COVID-19 Golden Knights Raiders Team UNLV 

With Reed-Francois Taking Mizzou AD Job, Las Vegas Sports Market Loses Third Major Player In Three Weeks

August 8, 2021August 8, 2021 Alan Snel Brian Killingsworth, Desiree Reed-Francois, Kevin Kruger, Marc Badain, Marcus Arroyo, Marvin Menzies, T.J. Otzelberger, Tony Sanchez

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com With Sunday’s news that UNLV Athletic Director Desiree Reed-Francois took the University of Missouri’s AD

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COVID-19 Raiders Stadium Raiders Team 

Raiders Welcome Season Ticket Holders To Practice In Allegiant Stadium Sunday; Most Fans Wearing Masks

August 8, 2021August 8, 2021 Alan Snel Dan Ventrelle, Steve Sisolak

    Story by Alan Snel                       Photos by Daniel Clark

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Raiders interim president Dan Ventrelle discusses buses and vaccinations at an RTC media event Saturday.
Aviators COVID-19 Golden Knights Raiders Stadium Raiders Team 

New Raiders Prez: Team Requires Office Workers To Be Vaccinated Against COVID

August 7, 2021August 7, 2021 Alan Snel Dan Ventrelle, Steve Sisolak

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It was an RTC media event to hype expanded bus routes in metro Las Vegas

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Raiders' new president, Dan Vantrelle
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New Raiders President Dan Ventrelle Makes First Public Appearance Saturday To Hype RTC Bus Service To Home Games At Allegiant Stadium

August 7, 2021August 7, 2021 Alan Snel Dan Ventrelle, Dina Titus, Jim Frevola, Justin Jones, Michael Naft, Steve Sisolak, Susie Lee

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Young Mason is a five-year-old tyke or so standing in front of the “Raider Nation”

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COVID-19 NBA Summer League Raiders Stadium Raiders Team Sports Tourism 

Start Of NBA Summer League Coincides With NFL Raiders Practice That’s Open To Season Ticket Holders At Allegiant Stadium In Las Vegas Sunday

August 6, 2021August 6, 2021 Alan Snel Steph Curry, Zion Williamson

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com On Sunday, the convergence of the Big Leagues is coming to Las Vegas. The NBA

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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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BRIEFS

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.”

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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

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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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