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Sports and COVID-19: UNLV Offers $1 Season Ticket Deposit Deal For Football Season, But Virus Expert Fauci Calls For No Fans At Stadiums

April 15, 2020April 15, 2020 Alan Snel Anthony Fauci

UNLV is trying to stir more football fans into attending Rebels home games by promoting a deal that allows people

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Sports-Business During COVID-19: How Sports Social Media Teams Stay Relevant Without Sports

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 Alan Snel

By Toby Srebnik for LVSportsBiz.com People often make lemonade from lemons in the toughest of situations. Now imagine working in

Coach T.J. Otzelberger

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UNLV Men’s Basketball Season Ends Thursday With 67-61 Loss To Boise State In Mountain West Tourney

March 5, 2020March 5, 2020 Alan Snel Amauri Hardy, Bryce Hamilton, Desiree Reed-Francois, Elijah Mitrou-Long, Jonah Antonio, Marvin Menzies, T.J. Otzelberger

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com So much for thinking UNLV men’s basketball team would ride a host streak all the

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UNLV Clobbers Colorado State, 80-56, At Thomas & Mack Tuesday Night

February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell The UNLV basketball shooters were reigning three-point field goals

UNLV students giving it to the Wolf Pack free throw shooter in first half.

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UNLV Drops Overtime Decision To Nevada-Reno, 82-79, Before Spirited Crowd At Thomas & Mack Wednesday

February 12, 2020February 12, 2020 Alan Snel Bryce Hamilton, Desiree Reed-Francois, Marvin Coleman, T.J. Otzelberger

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell True, UNLV suffered a tough overtime loss to

Golden Knights take on Carolina at T-Mobile Arena Saturday night. LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O'Donnell

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On Sports Betting: Golden Knights Tempt Bettors, Runnin’ Rebels Not So Much

February 10, 2020 Alan Snel Pete DeBoer, T.J. Otzelberger

By Daniel Behringer of LVSportsBiz.com Tough match-up for the Vegas Golden Knights. And a tough game for sports bettors to

Raiders new stadium home -- Allegiant Stadium

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UNLV Football Season Ticket Signup Site Doesn’t Mention Allegiant Stadium Or Sam Boyd Stadium

February 3, 2020February 3, 2020 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The UNLV 2020 football season ticket sign-up site link lists various bits of information like

Kobe Bryant and daughter Gigi at the WNBA All-Star Game in Las Vegas last season.

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Kobe Bryant’s Death Felt At UNLV-San Diego State Game Sunday As Moment Of Silence Held For Ex-Lakers Legend; UNLV Loses To Unbeaten No. 4 SD State, 71-67

January 26, 2020January 26, 2020 Alan Snel Kobe Bryant

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It was 50 minutes before UNLV was going to play an undefeated, number-four-in-the-nation San Diego

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Las Vegas Aces, UNLV Basketball Roll Out Funny Videos To Spark More Interest In Their Teams

January 20, 2020January 22, 2020 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Bill Laimbeer, Mbacke Diong

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Amid all the news of the Golden Knights firing coach Gerard Gallant, former UFC badboy-now-goodguy

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UNLV Defeats Air Force, 71-59, at Thomas & Mack Saturday, Moves to 8-8 on Season

January 4, 2020January 4, 2020 Alan Snel Amauri Hardy, Marvin Coleman, Mbacke Diong, T.J. Otzelberger

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It was the first Saturday night of 2020 in Las Vegas, a night to pay

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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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.