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Inside Allegiant Stadium’s Attendance Numbers For 2021: Thousands Of Empty Seats, No-Shows At Raiders Games

May 29, 2022May 30, 2022 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com If you thought you saw lots of empty seats at Las Vegas Raiders home games

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Aviators Baseball Las Vegas Ballpark UNLV 

UNLV Visits Las Vegas Ballpark In Summerlin For Tuesday Evening Baseball Against Arizona State; Final UNLV 11 Arizona State 10

March 29, 2022March 29, 2022 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It was baseball night in Summerlin Tuesday. The UNLV baseball team, a club that had

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First Thursday Of March Madness In Las Vegas Is A Holiday In Sin City

March 17, 2022March 17, 2022 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It’s First Thursday of March Madness in Las Vegas, a day that should be a

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Basketball Gambling Golden Knights Major League Baseball UNLV 

Monday Morning Gambler: The Long Road Trip–VGK Burn Bettors Repeatedly on Losing Streak

March 14, 2022March 14, 2022 Alan Snel Bryce Hamilton, Cole Sillinger, Pete DeBoer

By Dan Behringer for LVSportsBiz.com For bettors, the Vegas Golden Knights at the Pittsburgh Penguins game on Friday looked like

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Basketball Thomas & Mack Center UNLV 

UNLV’s Rally Against Wyoming In Mountain West Tourney Comes Up Short, 59-56

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 Alan Snel Bryce Hamilton, Donovan Williams, Jordan McCabe, Kevin Kruger, Royce Hamm Jr.

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com After the UNLV’s women’s basketball team punched its ticket to The Big Dance, UNLV’s men’s

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UNLV Women Cut Down Nets In Mountain West Hoops Tourney Final Wednesday; Lady Rebels Off To NCAAs With Win Over Colorado State

March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 Alan Snel Essence Booker, Lindy LaRoque

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com UNLV’s women are going dancing. The Lady Rebels cut down the nets at Thomas &

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Five Years Ago Today A Distracted Motorist Knocked Me Out And Knocked Me Back To Las Vegas To Start LVSportsBiz

March 7, 2022March 7, 2022 Alan Snel Chris Maathuis, Joe Capozzi, Sharon Wynne

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com  The final touches on my last story I wrote in Florida came on the night

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Monday Morning Gambler: Vegas Golden Knights On-Again, Off-Again For Bettors

March 7, 2022March 7, 2022 Alan Snel Alex Bowman, Colby Covington, Jorge Masdival, Kevin Kruger, Pete DeBoer

By Dan Behringer for LVSportsBiz.com On-again, off-again. If you’ve been betting the Vegas Golden Knights, you know it’s been a

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UNLV Basketball Striving For Relevance In Crowded, Competitive Las Vegas Sports Market; Runnin’ Rebels Enjoy 64-57 Win Over Wyoming On Senior Night Wednesday

March 2, 2022March 3, 2022 Alan Snel Bryce Hamilton, Hunter Maldonado, Hunter Thompson, Justin Webster, Kevin Kruger, Royce Hamm Jr.

     Story by Alan Snel    Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell They’re older than Vegas Golden Knights fans these

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Monday Morning Gambler: UNLV’s Cover Streak Comes To Abrupt End

February 28, 2022February 28, 2022 Alan Snel Colby Covington, Jorge Masvidal, Kevin Kruger, Pete DeBoer

By Dan Behringer for LVSportsBiz.com There was a point in UNLV’s game on Tuesday with UNR that bettors might have

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Briefs

July 5, 2021

LVSportsBiz.com CONTACT: 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, Seattle and Tampa besides Las Vegas and is considered a national authority on the topic. Please read our investigative reports on:

F1 race promoting misleading economic data on race event in Las Vegas

LVCVA spending $165,000 on Super Bowl trip to LA

LVCVA CEO Steve Hill’s claiming that tourism decreases in Las Vegas in summer is wrong

Las Vegas consultant Jeremy Aguero having conflict of interest for asking Nevada Legislature for A’s stadium construction money while also working as administrative support for Las Vegas Stadium Authority.

LVCVA awarding $1.2 million contract to Phoenix-based sports marketing company that hires former husband of LVCVA’s vice president of sports & events less than a month after.


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Our coverage of the Athletics stadium project in Las Vegas.  

A’s owner John Fisher in Las Vegas

New A’s team president 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

Athletics consultant Jeremy Aguero is eye of Las Vegas’ sports hurricane

How Deal Was Made For A’s Ballpark On Strip

Bally’s Corp, Gaming & Leisure Properties team up with A’s for ballpark on Strip

Bally’s Corp Chairman Wants Hotel Open When A’s Stadium Is Ready In 2028

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May 24, 2021

Our bicycle story collection:

Red Rock Scenic Drive outside Las Vegas

Let’s Pedal Zion National Park

Bicycling Bristlecone Trail At 9,000 Feet Outside Vegas

Bicycling Las Vegas far from Strip

Incomparable Grand Canyon by bike

Move over road cycling, here comes mountain biking in Las Vegas

Pedaling Zion National Park

Biking magical Seattle and the Northwest

Remembering the Knapper

Bicycling the Tour de Stadiums of Las Vegas

Remembering BeFly Beth

Las Vegas bicyclist struck by bullet during memorial ride

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