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UNLV football ticket prices can stay the same from 2019 to 2020 when Rebels move into new stadium.

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Buy 2019 UNLV Football Season Tickets and Pay Same Price at New Stadium in 2020

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019 Alan Snel Desiree Reed-Francois

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com While the Raiders fans will pay thousands of dollars for personal seat licenses and season

The season's biggest crowd gave Thomas & Mack Center big energy Tuesday evening.

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High-Energy UNLV Arena Thundered With Hoops Life For Rivalry Game, But Rebels Lose To Rival Wolfpack, 87-70

January 29, 2019January 29, 2019 Alan Snel Caleb Martin, Cody Martin, Desiree Reed-Francois, Jordan Caroline, Marvin Menzies

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell It was like the movie, Awakenings, the beast

Losing New Mexico squad leaves the Thomas and Mack Center floor.

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UNLV Hoopsters Win Again in Conference in Front of Lively Small Crowd

January 22, 2019 Alan Snel Marvin Menzie

BY ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com You get the sense the small crowds at UNLV basketball games may have bottomed out

Gucci Row's open seats at the UNLV-Wyoming basketball game at Thomas & Mack Center Saturday night. v

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UNLV Hoops Team Wins First Two Conference Games in Front of Small Crowds at Thomas & Mack Center

January 5, 2019January 5, 2019 Alan Snel Dan Dolby

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com They’re a young group of college basketball players with their best man sidelined with an

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UNLV Sports to ‘Refresh Marks’ When Football Team Moves Into New Stadium in 2020; New Logo is Benched

December 31, 2018December 31, 2018 Alan Snel Desiree Reed-Francois

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com On the eve of a new year, UNLV’s sports staff is ushering in good news

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LVSportsBiz.com’s Top Dozen Las Vegas Fan Photos from 2018: Happy 2019 to our Readers

December 31, 2018 Alan Snel

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com takes pride in reporting the news behind the sports action — whether it be

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UNLV Basketball/Football and VGK Hockey: Polar Opposites in Attendance in Las Vegas

November 24, 2018November 26, 2018 Alan Snel Marc Andre-Fleury, Marvin Menzies

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell A few UNLV basketball games ago, Marvin Menzies

Despite small crowds at UNLV basketball games, Learfield UNLV sports marketers are finding companies to buy sponsorships.

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UNLV’s Sports Sponsorships Strategy: ‘We Don’t Use Wins and Losses To Do Business in Town’

November 20, 2018 Alan Snel Dan Dolby

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The UNLV football team is struggling through another losing season, while the UNLV basketball squad

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UNLV Hoops Team Struggles On Court with Dismal Season-Opener Loss While Student Attendance Continues To Wane

November 10, 2018November 12, 2018 Alan Snel Chet Buchanan, Marvin Menzies, Shakur Juiston

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com A UNLV junior named Jack hung around Thomas & Mack Center after the basketball team’s

Thomas & Mack Center's new center-hung scoreboard has been installed.

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New Center-Hung Scoreboard a Vital Upgrade for Thomas & Mack Center

November 1, 2018November 2, 2018 Alan Snel Desiree Reed-Francois, Mike Newcomb

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com MGM Resorts International has been busy cutting gaming partnerships with the NBA, NHL and New

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

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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.