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Another Sports Partnership for MGM Resorts–This Time, Big League Baseball

November 27, 2018November 27, 2018 Alan Snel Jim Murren, Nehme Abouzeid, Robert Manfred

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com This time, it’s Major League Baseball’s logos you will see in MGM Resorts International’s advertisements

Gambling

MGM Resorts International Becomes New York Jets’ Official Gaming Partner

October 31, 2018October 31, 2018 Alan Snel Gary Bettman, Jim Murren, Neil Glat

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com It seems like Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts International can’t go a day without announcing another

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

Gambling

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

Aces fans had a lot to root for after the team's 1-7 start.

WNBA Aces

After Sluggish Start On Court and Off It, Las Vegas Aces Rebound With Entertaining Product and High Hopes for Season 2

August 19, 2018August 19, 2018 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Jim Murren, Lance Evans

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell It was their inaugural season in Las Vegas,

The NBA has reached a historic sports gambling partnership with Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts International.

Basketball Gambling

With MGM Resorts and NBA Forging Historic Sports Betting Partnership, When Will This Romance Conceive An NBA Team For MGM’s T-Mobile Arena?

July 31, 2018July 31, 2018 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Jim Murren

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Now that we have learned that MGM Resorts International has become the official sports betting

51s Aviators Basketball Raiders Stadium

LVSportsBiz’s Sunday Insider Look At Las Vegas’ Sports-Business Scene

July 21, 2018January 31, 2019 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Don Logan, Jim Murren

(Publisher’s Note: LVSportsBiz.com will be talking sports-business with KSNV News 3 Sports Anchor Randy Howe Sunday night after the 11

During a 4Q and total year 2017 earning calls, MGM Resorts International CEO Jim Murren said he is bullish on sports in Las Vegas.

Jim Murren

MGM Resorts CEO Calls Las Vegas A ‘Sports Lovers Town’

February 20, 2018February 20, 2018 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Canelo Alvarez, Gennady Golovkin, Gerard Gallant, Jim Murren

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com MGM Resorts International CEO Jim Murren said Las Vegas has transformed into a “sports lovers

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

Veteran NBA executive Jerry Colangelo predicts the NBA will expand to Las Vegas one day.

NBA Summer League T-Mobile Arena

Vegas’ Big-League Harmonic Convergence Means the NBA is Next

July 12, 2017July 12, 2017 Alan Snel Albert Hall, Jerry Colangelo, Jim Murren, Mark Jackson

We interrupt the Mayweather-McGregor World Promotion Tour for a small announcement: In a few years, Las Vegas will be home

July 5, 2021

LVSPORTSBIZ.COM, launched June 2017: We are a digital magazine providing market-leading news, intelligence, enterprise and breaking info 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, Seattle and Tampa besides Las Vegas and is considered a national authority on the topic.

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Hirings and Firings:

Las Vegas Aces President Nikki Fargas said the Aces are not renewing the contract of General Manager Natalie Williams. The Aces hired Williams as the team’s general manager in April 2022.

Vegas Golden Knights said the NHL club has signed defenseman Shea Theodore to a seven-year contract extension worth an average annual value of $7,425,000.

Our coverage of the Athletics stadium project in Las Vegas.

Mark Rosentraub on A’s stadium site on Strip.

Big League Sports With Small Town Politics

Man of Many Hats

Athletics’ long, strange journey for new ballpark

Athletics consultant Jeremy Aguero is eye of Las Vegas’ sports hurricane

How Deal Was Made For A’s Ballpark On Strip

Bally’s Corp, Gaming & Leisure Properties team up with A’s for ballpark on Strip

Bally’s Corp Chairman Wants Hotel Open When A’s Stadium Is Ready In 2028

To contact LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel or buy his book, Bicycle Man: Life of Journeys, email him at asnel@LVSportsBiz.com

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