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Inside Las Vegas Sports Marketing: UNLV’s Megan Caligiuri on Trying to Shape the Best Sports Family Value in Town

June 24, 2019July 10, 2019 Alan Snel Megan Caligiuri

UNLV’s Megan Caligiuri By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com You might not hear much about Megan Caligiuri. She’s usually the one

Aces Aviators Lights UNLV

Beer Chugging in Las Vegas: Both Las Vegas Aces and Las Vegas Aviators Stage Beer Promotions Thursday Night

June 20, 2019June 21, 2019 Alan Snel Bill Laimbeer

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell Not only did the Las Vegas Aces

Lights coach Eric Wynalda

Aviators Esports Gambling Golden Knights UNLV

LVSportsBiz.com’s Around The Horn With Items on VGK, UNLV Hoops, Lights, Aviators, eSports,

May 28, 2019 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Some choice tidbits as we move into the final week of May. UNLV and

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Wilson, Otzelberger Make Pitches To Make Basketball Big-Time Again In Las Vegas

May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, T.J. Otzelberger

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com A’ja Wilson is a gifted 22-year-old basketball player from South Carolina and and T.J. Otzelberger

UNLV's new basketball coach T.J. Otzelberger meets folks before his introduction after a helicopter landed at Thomas & Mack Center to drop him off.

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Otzelberger Arrives at UNLV With 5-Year Contract and Faces Tough Challenge to Transition Once-Great College Basketball Program to National Prominence

March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 Alan Snel Amauri Hardy, Desiree Reed-Francois, Joel Ntambwe, Shakur Juiston, T.J. Otzelberger

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Amid all the talk about college basketball players getting paid and the ghost of Rick

Marvin Menzies: Nice guy, but not the right fit for Las Vegas. Photo credit: J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com

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UNLV Athletic Director Seeks New Direction for Basketball Program; Cuts Loose Menzies After 3 Seasons

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 Alan Snel Desiree Reed-Francois, Marvin Menzies

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The kiss of death for any business is to cease being relevant.

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UNLV Bows Out of MWC Tourney with San Diego State Loss, and Future is Unsettled for Once Proud Hoops Program in Crowded Las Vegas Sports Market

March 14, 2019March 14, 2019 Alan Snel Marvin Menzies

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell UNLV’s basketball season limped to a finish Thursday

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Runnin’ Rebels Pump Up the Volume at Thomas & Mack with OT Win Over Boise State

March 2, 2019March 3, 2019 Alan Snel Kris Clyburn, Marvin Menzies, Noah Robotham

ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell They tried everything to get fans to return

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UNLV’s Loudest Crowd of Season Watches Runnin’ Rebs Lose, 60-59, to San Diego State

February 23, 2019February 24, 2019 Alan Snel Desiree Reed-Francois, Marvin Menzies, Noah Robotham

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com It was the loudest it’s been for a UNLV basketball game at Thomas & Mack

Gambling Golden Knights UNLV

Money Shifts Back and Forth on VGK and Bettors are Rewarded (Sometimes)

February 11, 2019 Alan Snel

By DANIEL BEHRINGER LVSportsBiz.com Gutsy. That’s the best way to describe the Vegas Golden Knights’ victory over the Tampa

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.