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LVCVA Is Hiring In City Addicted To Sports: Chief Sports Officer Wanted And Pay Is $248,600 to $347,400

December 10, 2025December 11, 2025 Alan Snel Abe Madkour, Adam Silver, Jim Phillips

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College Football Playoff Exec Director On UNLV: Committee Watched Rebels Very Closely

December 10, 2024December 10, 2024 Alan Snel Abe Madkour, Austin Karp, Barry Odom, Richard Clark

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NCAA President Charlie Baker at SBJ Intercollegiate Athletics Forum in Las Vegas Wednesday. Photo credit: Tony Florez/SBJ

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NCAA Prez Charlie Baker Uses Sports Business Journal Forum In Las Vegas To Elaborate On His Major Proposal To Pay $30,000 To Some D1 College Athletes

December 6, 2023December 6, 2023 Alan Snel Abe Madkour, Charlie Baker

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer Sports Business Journal Publisher Abe Madkour’s timing could not have been better. At SBJ’s Intercollegiate

Kerry Bubolz at T-Mobile Arena.

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Foley’s Group Looked At 20 Potential MLS Stadium Sites, Talked With Raiders About Using Allegiant Stadium In Quest For MLS Team

September 29, 2021September 29, 2021 Alan Snel Abe Madkour, Bill Foley, Kerry Bubolz, Randy Morton

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Bill Foley’s sports and entertainment staff looked at 20 potential locations for

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.

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

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.