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Cashman Field is the Lights' stadium but it still has the baseball outfield walls still up.

Lights

Eventually, Lights Soccer Team Will Have To Upgrade Its Downtown Venue; Lights and Tulsa Play To A Scoreless Draw

May 25, 2019May 25, 2019 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Carolyn Goodman

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell The Las Vegas Lights FC soccer team fills

Lights

Lights Soccer Team Holds Flash Ticket Sale to Celebrate Mayor Goodman’s Re-election Win

April 3, 2019April 3, 2019 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Carolyn Goodman

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com You have to hand it to the Las Vegas Lights FC soccer team — they

Slicing a jet in two during the pregame show. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Poked Fun At Kings, Sharks, Jets In Pregame Show, But It’s Tricky Goofing On Nation’s Symbol, The Capitals

May 26, 2018May 26, 2018 Alan Snel Big D, Bruce Cusick, Carolyn Goodman, Jon Merrill, Jonny Greco, Lee Orchard, Steve Sisolak

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The Vegas Golden Knights’ pregame video showing the team’s theatrical knight character vanquishing a

The Golden Knights mascot is disappointed over the team's 4-2 loss Saturday.

Golden Knights

Las Vegas’ Festive Watch Parties Break Out Across Region, But VGK Loss In Conference Final Game 1 Leaves Fans Disappointed

May 12, 2018May 12, 2018 Alan Snel Bruce Cusick, Carolyn Goodman, Dave Goucher, Derek Stevens, Jake Wagner, Joe Green, Ken Boehlke, Marc Andre-Fleury, Shane Hnidy, Steve Sisolak

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Las Vegas came together Saturday at Vegas Golden Knights watch parties big and small

Golden Knights

As Golden Knights Mania Sweeps Las Vegas, Other LV Teams Look To Draw Spotlight Too

April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 Alan Snel Carolyn Goodman, Dan Marrazza, Dave Goucher

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The Vegas Golden Knights’ Round 1 sweep of the Los Angeles Kings and their

The two llamas, courtesy of Lights' sponsor Zappos, joined the players for the on-field intros.

Lights

LV Lights FC Draws 9,019 For Soccer Team’s Historic Home Opener; Game Ends In 1-1 Draw

March 24, 2018March 24, 2018 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Carolyn Goodman

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The Las Vegas Lights FC soccer team was tracking for a sellout for its inaugural

The Las Vegas Lights FC's first game during the regular season was not on local TV in Las Vegas. Photo credit: Erik Ricardo/LVSportsBiz.com

Lights

Cox Refused To Televise LV Lights’ First Regular Season Soccer Game On City TV Channel Saturday

March 18, 2018March 19, 2018 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Carolyn Goodman, Dave Riggleman, Juergen Barbusca

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Cox Communications, which distributes cable TV programming in Las Vegas, blocked the non-commercial telecast of

MGM Resorts International named its WNBA team the Aces.

WNBA Aces

MGM Resorts International Unveils New Name, Logo For Its WNBA Team, Las Vegas Aces

December 11, 2017December 11, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Hornbuckle, Bill Laimbeer, Carolyn Goodman, Chuck Bowling, Jim Murren, Lisa Borders, Steve Sisolak

By ALAN SNEL The owner of Las Vegas’ new WNBA team emerged from its corporate cocoon of silence this

Las Vegas Lights FC owner Brett Lashbrook accepts every opportunity to discuss his team with the media, while MGM Resorts International has been mum about its new WNBA team. Photo credit: Sam Morris/Las Vegas News Bureau

Lights Stars

Transparency vs. Crickets: LV Lights FC and WNBA’s ‘New Las Vegas Team’ Follow Divergent Marketing Approaches

December 10, 2017 Alan Snel Bill Laimbeer, Brett Lashbrook, Carolyn Goodman

By ALAN SNEL Two new professional sports teams in Las Vegas are launching in 2018. But you could

Las Vegas Lights FC owner Brett Lashbrook and Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman announce that the Lights soccer team will play three pre-season games against MLS teams in February.

Lights

Lashbrook-Goodman Soccer Media Tour Delivers 3 Pre-season Lights Games with MLS Clubs in February

November 27, 2017November 27, 2017 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Carolyn Goodman

By ALAN SNEL When they’re out in public and the video cameras are focused on them, new Las Vegas

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. And like the Vegas Golden Knights, LVSportsBiz.com is celebrating its tenth birthday in 2027.

LVSportsBiz.com’s Written Word Series: Our storytelling focuses on original story lines.

June 2024: A father’s connection

June 2026: Baseball and the radio

April 2018: NHL team born in the desert

March 2020: Gratitude for being alive

June 2017: Birth of a website

August 2026: Team president does it all

LVSportsBiz.com endorses RIPT ULTRA for your sports headphones needs. I report hundreds of stories a year at venues where these headphones allow me to focus and write. Order these headphones here.

LVSportsBiz.com coverage of Athletics stadium project on Strip in Las Vegas.

A’s owner John Fisher in Las Vegas

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.