Bill Walton Archives - LVSportsBiz

Las Vegas Tour de Proposed Arenas and Stadiums: Sunday Morning Bicycle Ride Includes Two Proposed NBA Arenas, One MLB Stadium Along Las Vegas Boulevard

June 2, 2024June 2, 2024 Alan Snel Bill Walton, Jackie Robinson, James Frasure, John Fisher, Marc Badain, Tim Leiweke

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Basketball Bicycling T-Mobile Arena

Legendary Basketball Player Bill Walton Loved Bicycling, Too; Celebrated Life With Laughter, Love, Hoops, Biking; Big Redhead Dies From Cancer At 71

May 27, 2024May 29, 2024 Alan Snel Bill Walton

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Basketball Dollar Loan Center Fans LVCVA Marketing Raiders Stadium Sports Marketing T-Mobile Arena Travel

March Madness Had Las Vegas In Its Grips This Week As More Than 100 College Basketball Teams Competed For Ticket To NCAA Big Dance

March 11, 2023March 12, 2023 Alan Snel Ajay Mitchell, Bill Walton, Desi-Rae Young, Joe Pasternack, Todd Simon

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer Emotions run deep in the Madness. UC Santa Barbara’s Ajay Mitchell sobbed in

Basketball Bicycling Dollar Loan Center Gambling Golden Knights Knight Hawks Raiders camp Raiders Team Silver Knights UFC

Raiders Camp Off Day Means Las Vegas Sports Business Roundup Time

July 29, 2022July 29, 2022 Alan Snel Bill Walton, Derek Stevens, LeBron James

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Circa Las Vegas hotel-casino owner Derek Stevens is a brilliant marketing man, but even he

Bicycling

Basketball Great/World Philosopher Bill Walton Uses Bicycle As Vehicle For Pandemic Fundraiser

April 22, 2020 Alan Snel Bill Walton

By Vivi Lin for LVSportsBiz.com TW: @vivishootvids IG: @vivionthespot4tv FB: ViviLinOnTheSpot LI: vivionthespot The COVID-19 pandemic has done more than

Basketball

Mighty Gonzaga Advances To WCC Final Against Nemesis St. Mary’s As College Hoops Tourneys Take Over Las Vegas

March 9, 2020March 9, 2020 Alan Snel Bill Walton

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell The parade of college basketball conference tourneys marching through

Amgen Tour of California at Six Flags amusement park after the stage was snowed out at Big Bear in May 2015.

Bicycling

AEG, Co-Owner of T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Puts Amgen Tour of California Bicycle Race on Hiatus for 2020

October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 Alan Snel Bill Walton, Eddy Merckx, Greg LeMond, Kristin Klein

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The co-owner of T-Mobile Arena — Los Angeles-based Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) — has decided

Bicycling

A Beautiful Bicycle Life — A Top 10 Bicycle Ride List

July 30, 2019 Alan Snel Anthony Rossi, Bill Fox, Bill Walton, Chris O'Connell, Jared Fisher, Jeff Houck, Margaret Fox, Rosemary Evans, Scott Sofferman

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Publisher’s Note: When you see the United State by bicycle, pedaling slow enough to see

The amazing Bill Walton during Saturday's ESPN broadcast of Oregon vs Washington for the Pac-12 tourney championship. Photo credit: J. Tyge O'Donnell/LVSportsBiz.com

Basketball

The Legend of Bicyclist Bill Walton (Yes, He Was a Legendary Basketball Player, Too)

March 17, 2019March 17, 2019 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Bill Walton, Paul Sherwen

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Like we all did in college when we were not feeling well, ESPN broadcaster/basketball legend

Basketball

Once Powerful UCLA Draws Small Crowd for Pac-12 Tourney in Las Vegas

March 13, 2019March 13, 2019 Alan Snel Bill Walton

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Well, at least UCLA alum Bill Walton is here. But he’s working, calling 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.”

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.