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The Vegas Golden Knights are the latest sunbelt team to join the NHL.

Golden Knights Ahead In Sunbelt Market Game Compared to NHL Team in North Carolina

October 21, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Willie Drye

(LVSportsBiz.com founder’s note: Special guest columnists will occasionally contribute their thoughts on Las Vegas’ dynamic sports-business scene. LVSportsBiz.com welcomes book

Golden Knights owner Bill Foley said ticket, sponsorship and merchandise sales are higher than budgeted amounts so far. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Owner Foley Says Revenues Trending Above Budgeted Amounts; Seeks to Take Brand International

October 16, 2017October 16, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Foley

By ALAN SNEL Not only are the Vegas Golden Knights off to a red-hot start with four wins in

An unbelievable week in Las Vegas sports-business news -- on the ice and off it, too. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Column

The SportsBiz Week That Was In Las Vegas: 4 Takeaways

October 14, 2017October 14, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Clint McComb, Gavin Maloof, Joe Maloof, Steve Sisolak

By ALAN SNEL They’re not image, message and PR experts for nothing. Our local public tourism agency, also known

Golden Knights

How The Outsiders Brought Las Vegas’ First Major League Team To Life

October 12, 2017October 12, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Brian Killingsworth, Gary Bettman, Gary Lawless, Gavin Maloof, George Maloof, George McPhee, Gerard Gallant, Jim Frevola, Joe Maloof, Jonny Greco, Nehme Abouzeid

By ALAN SNEL They say Las Vegas with its 2 million people is still a small town. Indeed,

The LVCVA wants to spend $80 million on a new Las Vegas Ballpark marketing deal for a new 51s stadium in Summerlin.

51s Aviators LVCVA

Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Wants To Spend $80 Million On New 51s Ballpark Marketing Deal

October 9, 2017January 31, 2019 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Brett Lashbrook, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Tom Warden

By ALAN SNEL After decades of declining to subsidize new sports stadiums, southern Nevada is jumping into the sports

Golden Knights will be on Cox cable TV in Last Vegas after Cox-AT&T SportsNet deal today.

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Games On Cox Cable TV In Las Vegas Thanks To 11th Hour AT&T SportsNet-Cox Deal

October 6, 2017October 6, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Kerry Bubolz

By ALAN SNEL Golden Knights owner Bill Foley called it last month — a cable TV deal would be

Still no cable deal for Cox Communications to distribute Golden Knights games.

Golden Knights

On Eve Of Golden Knights’ Historic First Franchise Game, Team Still Shut Out On Cox Cable TV

October 5, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Kerry Bubolz

By ALAN SNEL Look all around and the Cox Communications TV cable company has its fingerprints on the Vegas

The Vegas Golden Knights player appearances at Las Vegas Metro, the Las Vegas Convention Center and United Blood Services lifted spirits during this emotionally difficult time in Las Vegas.

Golden Knights

‘There’s More To Life Than Hockey Right Now’

October 3, 2017October 3, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Brayden McNabb, Brendan Leipsic, Calvin Pickard, Marc Andre-Fleury

By ALAN SNEL Courtney Oldenburg was at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival with her boyfriend when she

Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights T-Mobile Arena

Foley’s Folded Flag Foundation Raising Money at Golden Knights Games One Raffle at a Time

October 1, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Foley

By ALAN SNEL Golden Knights owner Bill Foley’s portfolio includes an impressive array of properties, ranging from California wineries

Golden Knights fans have welcomed their new team at T-Mobile Arena this week.

Golden Knights T-Mobile Arena

Golden Knights Tickets Chief Uses Pre-Season Games To Work Out Kinks

September 29, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Todd Pollock

By ALAN SNEL The first two pre-season games for the Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena have given Coach

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

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.