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Special Olympics runners arrive with the torch Friday at the Raiders stadium site.

Raiders Stadium Site Is Backdrop For Special Olympics Torch-Bearing Runners Friday

May 17, 2019 Alan Snel Jerry Robinson, Steve Wisniewski

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com The Raiders stadium is still more than a year away from opening, yet its skeleton

From left to right: VGK's Kerry Bubolz, Raiders' Marc Badain, Lights FC's Brett Lashbrook, Aviators' Don Logan and UFC's Lawrence Epstein at Las Vegas Property Development and Infrastructure Conference panel discussion at South Point Wednesday.

Aviators Golden Knights Lights Raiders Team UFC

Las Vegas Sports Execs Schmooze About Sports’ Local Impacts

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Don Logan, Kerry Bubolz, Lawrence Epstein, Marc Badain

Left to right: Logan, Epstein, Lashbrook, Bubolz and Badain By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Now that Las Vegas is

LVCVA head Steve Hill discusses NHL awards show at Mandalay Bay in June in Las Vegas. Not included: public money spent on these sponsorship deals.

Golden Knights LVCVA Raiders Stadium Raiders Team Speedway Sports Tourism T-Mobile Arena UFC

Public Price Of Subsidized Sports In Las Vegas: How Hype Doesn’t Include Public Cost

May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 Alan Snel Kerry Bubolz, Rob Dondero, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Hill

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com It was April 16 at T-Mobile Arena and it turned out the date marked the

Raiders stadium construction concrete foreman Dave Durbin announces the Raiders' fourth round pick at the construction site Saturday morning.

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Raiders Stadium Construction Chief Operating Officer: Building Stadium Is Like ‘A Rubik’s Cube That’s In Four Dimensions, Not Three’

April 27, 2019April 27, 2019 Alan Snel Don Webb, Maxx Crosby

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Dave Durbin, a Raiders stadium construction foreman with one helluva back story, had announced the

Las Vegas Ballpark, as seen on Tuesday morning.

Aviators LVCVA Raiders Stadium Raiders Team

The LVCVA: ‘It’s A Public Agency That Acts Like A Private Company’

March 5, 2019March 5, 2019 Alan Snel Marc Badain, Rossi Ralenkotter, Steve Hill

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com About a week after the “Great Las Vegas Snow Blizzard of 2019” coated the elevated

The NFL will not allow the Strip to be in TV commercials during NFL games to promote Las Vegas.

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NFL Will Have Team in Las Vegas But Bans Strip from TV Commercials Promoting Las Vegas During Broadcasts of Games

February 27, 2019February 27, 2019 Alan Snel Jeremy Aguero, Jonas Peterson, Mark Prows, Rob Cornelius, Rob Dondero

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The NFL happily approved the Raiders’ move from Oakland to Las Vegas — home of

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One Final Season in Oakland (Again) for Raiders in 2019 Before NFL Team Moves to Vegas for 2020; And Other Sports Business News

February 26, 2019 Alan Snel Brian Killingsworth

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com It turned out the Raiders’ goodbye to the Coliseum in 2018 was a false alarm.

The Raiders ticket prices will likely increase when the team moves to Las Vegas for their subsidized domed stadium in Las Vegas. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

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Average Raiders Ticket Price in 2018 Was In Bottom Half Of NFL Teams

February 19, 2019 Alan Snel

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The price for a family of four to attend a Raiders game in 2018 was

Raiders lured to Las Vegas by subsidized stadium.

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In Sports — and In Divorce (Between Oakland and the Raiders) — Any Deal Is Possible If The Money Is Right

February 19, 2019February 19, 2019 Alan Snel

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com If racial justice activist/former San Francisco 49ers quarterback/Nike pitchman Colin Kaepernick and the National League

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Bicycle Tour of Las Vegas Stadiums Reveals Market’s Expanding Sports Industry

February 9, 2019 Alan Snel

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Construction workers were digging a trench in the road next to the new Raiders stadium

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.