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Las Vegas Aces Blast Fever In Semis Game 2 On Las Vegas’ Big Sports Night; VGK Start Home Preseason Sked; Even Aviators See Playoff Action

September 23, 2025September 23, 2025 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, George McPhee, Mark Davis

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Fighting Las Vegas’ High Entertainment Prices: UNLV Football Pitching Three-Game $66 Ticket Deal At Allegiant Stadium

September 11, 2025September 11, 2025 Alan Snel

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UNLV Holds On For 30-23 Win Over UCLA At Allegiant Stadium Saturday; Attendance Announced At 36,117

September 6, 2025September 6, 2025 Alan Snel Anthony Colandrea, Dan Mullen, Erick Harper, Jai'Den "Jet" Thomas

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UNLV Football Selling $60 Tickets For UCLA Vs Rebels Game Saturday

September 3, 2025September 3, 2025 Alan Snel Dan Mullen, Erick Harper

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UNLV Survives Season-Opener Scare As Dan Mullen Era Debuts With 38-31 Win Over Idaho State Saturday In Week 0

August 23, 2025August 23, 2025 Alan Snel Barry Odom, Dan Mullen, Erick Harper, Jai'Den Thomas, Jordan Cooke, Marc Badain

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Exceeding Expectations? Las Vegas Stadium Board Data Shows Allegiant Stadium Hosted 39 Ticketed Events During 12-Month Period

August 15, 2025August 16, 2025 Alan Snel Mark Davis

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Barry Odom's last game at UNLV -- in Boise in the MWC championship game in December. Photo credit: LVSportsBiz.com

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Former UNLV Football Coach Barry Odom Returns To Las Vegas — For Big Ten Media Days As Purdue’s Head Coach

July 24, 2025July 24, 2025 Alan Snel Barry Odom

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Lots of people dump on the media. Not Barry

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Athletics Activate Stadium Construction Cam In Las Vegas To Show Ballpark Progress; UNLV Football Coach Dan Mullen Meets Media

July 17, 2025July 17, 2025 Alan Snel Dan Mullen, Erick Harper, John Fisher, Paul McCartney

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Old Trapper getting the sweet sponsorship love from Mountain West Conference during MWC football Media Days at Circa this week. Photo credit: LVSportsBiz.com

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Changing Times Coming For Mountain West Conference In 2026 But Marketing Focus Centers On 2025 Football, Basketball Seasons

July 16, 2025 Alan Snel Javan Hedlund

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NBA Is Here In Las Vegas! The Summer League, Not A Team (Yet)

July 11, 2025July 13, 2025 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Albert Hall, Bill Foley, Cooper Flagg, LeBron James, Warren LeGarie

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The Woodstock of

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. And like the Vegas Golden Knights, LVSportsBiz.com is celebrating its tenth birthday in 2027.

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.

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.