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LVCVA CEO Steve Hill

After LVSportsBiz.com Reported LVCVA Contract Bidding Problems, LVCVA CEO Steve Hill Tells Board ‘Process Did Not Meet Our Standards’

July 8, 2025July 9, 2025 Alan Snel Brian Yost, Jeff Motley, Jim Gibson, Lisa Motley, Melissa Grossman, Michael Naft, Richard Manhattan, Steve Hill

Story by Alan Snel Photos by Hugh Byrne LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The LVCVA

Clark County Commissioner Jim Gibson, who is chairman of the LVCVA board 0f directors. Photo credit: Hugh Byrne/LVSportsBiz.com

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LVCVA Rebidding Job For 2027 CFP Title Game In Vegas After Telling LVCVA Board Chair Jim Gibson In March That Bid Process Was Fine

June 30, 2025July 1, 2025 Alan Snel Brian Yost, Jeff Motley, Jim Gibson, Lisa Motley, Melissa Grossman, Steve Hill

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer LAS VEGAS, Nevada — It’s not every day the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA),

Allegiant Stadium College football Investigative LVCVA Sports Marketing Sports Tourism

After LVSportsBiz.com Reported LVCVA Contract Bid Irregularities, LVCVA VP Of Sports And Special Events Is No Longer With Las Vegas Public Tourism Agency

June 17, 2025June 18, 2025 Alan Snel Brian Yost, Brooks Downing, Jeff Motley, Lisa Motley, Melissa Grossman, Richard Manhattan, Steve Hill

ADVERTISEMENT Shop at Jay’s Market at 190 East Flamingo Road at the Koval Lane intersection east of the Strip.

Steve Hill, LVCVA CEO

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LVCVA Spent More Than $70,000 On Travel, Meals For College Football Championship Game Expenses; LVCVA Says Travel Part Of Research Protocol Of Staging Title Game In Vegas

May 13, 2025February 14, 2026 Alan Snel Adam Feldman, Brian Yost, Erick Harper, Jim Gibson, John Saccenti, Katie Wik, Lisa Motley, Michael Naft, Mike Newcomb, Rob Dondero, Steve DePue, Steve Hill

(Publisher’s Note: Why did we report this travel expenses story? The Las Vegas market ranks low compared to its peer

Interbike might be returning to Las Vegas. The LVCVA is working on it. Photo credit: Sam Morris/Las Vegas News Bureau

Bicycling LVCVA Sports Tourism Travel

LVCVA Sent Three Staffers To Bicycle Leadership Conference In Tucson To See If Bike Industry Is Interested In Interbike Trade Show Returning To Las Vegas

May 14, 2024May 14, 2024 Alan Snel Brian Yost, Lisa Motley

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) is so interested in bringing the bicycle

LVCVA representative Brian Yost tries to reassure the Clark County Commissioners that everything will be a-ok at the Las Vegas Grand Prix F1 race next week.

Fans Formula 1 Formula One LVCVA Sports Marketing Sports Tourism Travel

Las Vegas Grand Prix: Epic Sports Event Or Epic Logistics Disaster? County Commissioners Get Update On F1 Race Plan Tuesday

November 7, 2023November 8, 2023 Alan Snel Brian Yost, Jim Gibson, Marilyn Kirkpatrick

F1’s Las Vegas Grand Prix event next week: Epic event? Or epic disaster? Las Vegas Grand Prix and LVCVA representatives

Bicycling Sports Marketing Sports Tourism

LVCVA Tourism Agency Plans To Sponsor L’Etape Las Vegas by Tour de France in May 2023

May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 Alan Snel Brian Yost, Steve Hill

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It’s a Tour de France event in Summerlin and the LVCVA — the Las Vegas

Allegiant Stadium Marketing Sports Tourism Super Bowl

LVCVA COO: Las Vegas Tourism Agency Spending $164K To Attend Super Bowl In Los Angeles Provided ‘Invaluable’ Learning Experience

April 27, 2022 Alan Snel Brian Yost, Jeremy Aguero, Lisa Motley, Sam Joffray, Sandra Doug, Steve Hill, Steve Zanella, Virginia Valentine

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It’s all about learning the intricate planning details behind putting on an NFL Super Bowl.

LVCVA chief Steve Hill, also chairman of the Las Vegas stadium authority board

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Your Public Dollars: LVCVA Spends Nearly $165,000 On Attending Super Bowl In Los Angeles Two Months Ago

April 25, 2022February 13, 2026 Alan Snel Brian Yost, Jeremy Aguero, Lisa Motley, Sam Joffray, Sandra Douglass Morgan, Steve Hill, Steve Zanella, Virginia Valentine

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority — the local public tourism agency — spent

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.