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MGM Resorts International CEO celebrates the Aces win with team center Liz Cambage at Mandalay Bay Events Center Tuesday night.

Aces

LVSportsBiz Exclusive With MGM Resorts Intl CEO Murren: ‘We Won The Game When I Was Able To Bring The Team Here’

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Bill Hornbuckle, Jim Murren, Liz Cambage, Mark Davis

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com He drank a beer. And between sips, he gave some lip to the refs after

Late NBA legend Bill Russell watching Aces basketball. Photo by Steve Rosenthal/LVSportsBiz.com

Aces

Aces Polish Off Minnesota As NBA Legend Bill Russell Watches WNBA Game In Las Vegas

July 21, 2019July 21, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Bill Russell, Kayla McBride, Liz Cambage

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Las Vegas Aces All-Star A’ja Wilson was injured with a bad ankle and couldn’t show

Raiders owner Mark Davis

Aces

Raiders Owner Is A Regular At WNBA Aces Games — Even the 12 Noon Camp Day Games

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Bill Laimbeer, Kayla McBride, Kelsey Plum, Liz Cambage, Mark Davis

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com No matter when the Las Vegas Aces tip off their WNBA games at Mandalay Bay

Las Vegas' three teams this summer have found their niches.

Aces Aviators Lights

Las Vegas Teams of Summer Carve Out Unique Demographic Bases in Expanding Sports Market

June 29, 2019June 30, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Adam Silver, Bill Laimbeer, Brett Lashbrook, Jim Murren

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com At just after 7:30 pm Saturday, Las Vegas hit the trifecta. The WNBA Las

Aces center Liz Cambage scored 14 points in the team's 60-56 win over Seattle.

Aces

WNBA Aces Draw Announced Attendance 4,215, Beat Seattle, 60-56

June 25, 2019June 25, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Dearica Hamby, Kayla McBride, Liz Cambage

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell Only 12 seconds were left in the Las Vegas

Aces coach Bill Laimbeer said the team is still learning how to win.

Aces

WNBA Aces Lose Sloppy Game To Connecticut Sun, 80-74, As Attendance Dropped To 2,747

June 2, 2019June 2, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Bill Laimbeer, Jackie Young, Kayla McBride, Kelsey Plum, Liz Cambage

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Don’t reserve the Strip for an WNBA championship parade quite yet. The much heralded

Aces star A'ja Wilson scores during Aces' game with Los Angeles Sparks.

Aces

MGM Resorts Chief Murren, Raiders Owner Davis, Kobe In House For Aces’ Season-Opening Win, 83-70, Win Over LA Sparks

May 26, 2019May 26, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Bill Laimbeer, Ed Winkle, Jim Murren, Kobe Bryant, Lance Evans, Liz Cambage, Mark Davis

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell It was 10 minutes before the Las Vegas

Aces Aviators UNLV

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

It's Aces basketball on local TV in Las Vegas. Photo credit: Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com

Uncategorized

WNBA Aces Cut TV Deal With Sinclair Broadcasting To Air Home Basketball Games On MyLVTV In Las Vegas

May 24, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Bill Laimbeer, Christine Monjer, Liz Cambage

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com The Las Vegas Aces of the 12-team WNBA has a deal to broadcast nearly all

Las Vegas Aces' new center Liz Cambage, just acquired in a trade, chats with team president Christine Monjer after the Cambage news conference at MGM Grand Garden Arena Monday afternoon.

Aces

Dealt A Bad Hand In Tulsa, WNBA Star Liz Cambage Has All Aces in Las Vegas

May 20, 2019May 20, 2019 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Bill Laimbeer, Christine Monjer, Kayla McBride, Liz Cambage

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Liz Cambage, you’re not in Tulsa anymore. Cambage, the 27-year-old six-foot, eight-inch center and

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.

BRIEFS

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.

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.