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When Subsidized Stadiums Cause Team Values To Soar, Should Public Share In Franchise Value Windfalls? Raiders Value Skyrockets From $1.43 Billion In 2015 to $6.7B In 2024 Thanks To Stadium In Vegas

October 14, 2024October 14, 2024 Alan Snel Alex Rodriguez, Mark Davis, Michael Jordan, Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady

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PFL CEO Peter Murray with fighters. Photo: PFL website
Marketing MMA Sports Marketing 

On Sports Marketing: LVSportsBiz Holds Q and A With Professional Fighters League CEO On PFL In Vegas For April

April 7, 2023April 7, 2023 Alan Snel Alex Rodriguez, Biaggio Ali Walsh, Muhammad Ali, Peter Murray

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Cassandra Cousineau, LVSportsBiz.com MMA and Combat Sports Writer Sports promoters and organizations are infatuated with Las Vegas.

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NBA Summer League Thursday Attendance Comes In At 8,279

July 15, 2022July 15, 2022 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Alex Rodriguez

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Alex Rodriguez may have played more than 20 years in the Big Leagues and won

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Raiders Stadium 

Las Vegas Casino Tycoon Sheldon Adelson Emerges From Mystery As Bidder For New York Mets

July 15, 2020July 15, 2020 Alan Snel Alex Rodriguez, David Blitzer, Jennifer Lopez, Josh Harris, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Cohen

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The man of mystery is back. The mystery bidder who wants a piece of the

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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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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.”

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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

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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.

 

 

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