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NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman in Las Vegas. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

MGM Resorts Scores Another Sports Gambling Deal — This Time, It’s the NHL

October 29, 2018October 29, 2018 Alan Snel Gary Bettman, Jim Murren

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts International made another splash in the sports gambling arena by cutting

Raiders President Marc Badain (left) and Golden Knights President Kerry Bubolz (right) followed different career paths to Las Vegas. Photo credits for this story: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights Raiders Team

Two Big-League Team Presidents Charted Very Different Routes To Las Vegas

July 28, 2018July 30, 2018 Alan Snel Gary Bettman, Kerry Bubolz, Marc Badain, Steve Hill

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com One guy has spent his entire adulthood with a single NFL team from California that

Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Featured Golden Knights Sports Marketing

LVSportsBiz.com’s Inside Look At How Las Vegas Grew An NHL Team In The Desert

May 27, 2018February 13, 2026 Alan Snel Alex Ovechkin, Bill Foley, Gary Bettman, Jon Merrill, Kerry Bubolz, Marc Andre-Fleury, Steve Sisolak, Todd Pollock

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The date was Feb. 10, 2015 and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and a wealthy businessman

Founding partner Joe Maloof worked with his brothers to sell Las Vegas to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman. Photo credit: Erik John Ricardo/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights Sports Marketing

Exclusive: Birth Of Golden Knights Began With Maloofs’ Trips To NHL Commish Bettman In NY

April 2, 2018February 13, 2026 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Gary Bettman, Gavin Maloof, George Maloof, Joe Maloof, Phil Maloof

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Before a soft-spoken Swede made time stand still in Las Vegas Saturday night with hockey’s

Golden Knights' business staffers led by team President Kerry Bubolz win "Commissioner's Award" for team launch this season. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

Golden Knights

Golden Knights Garner First Trophy — Commissioner’s Award For Team Launch

March 14, 2018March 14, 2018 Alan Snel Gary Bettman, Kerry Bubolz, Todd Pollock

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The NHL season is not quite over yet, but the first-year Vegas Golden Knights have

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,

Powerful scenes on ice before the puck dropped were moving and touching for Golden Knights fans. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz

Golden Knights

Strength, Healing, #VegasStrong Fuel Golden Knights First Game On Home Ice and Unites a City

October 10, 2017October 11, 2017 Alan Snel Brian Killingsworth, Deryk Engelland, Gary Bettman, James Neal, Joe Maloof, Steve Sisolak

By ALAN SNEL Do you believe in #VegasStrong? I do. It was a jumble of emotions tonight

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.

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

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.