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Oakland Athletics Visit Las Vegas For Spring Games This Weekend, But Will They Try To Plant Roots Here With New Ballpark Near Strip?

March 4, 2023March 4, 2023 Alan Snel Don Logan, Ernie Clement, Jim Gibson, Joe Lombardo, John Fisher, Larry Brown

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Story by Alan Snel Photos by Hugh Byrne A 26-year-old second baseman for

Aviators Baseball Las Vegas Ballpark

LVSportsBiz.com’s Letter To Athletics: Hire All The Last Vegas Ballpark Lobbyists You Want, But Raiders Took All The Stadium Subsidy Money

February 18, 2023February 18, 2023 Alan Snel John Fisher, Rob Manfred

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer Dear Oakland Athletics, You want to come to Las Vegas? Sure, go for

Oakland Athletics ballpark drama on full display in 2022, as are the team's losses on the field. Photo credit: Tom Donoghue

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Days Of Our Ballparks: Public Money For Oakland Athletics Ballyard In Las Vegas Is In Holding Pattern With This Year’s Gubernatorial Race In Nevada

June 29, 2022June 30, 2022 Alan Snel Dave Kaval, Joe Lombardo, John Fisher, Mark Davis, Steve Pastorino, Steve Sisolak

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The last time LVSportsBiz.com talked with Gov. Steve Sisolak, he said there are no plans

The Howard Terminal stadium proposal.

Baseball

Las Vegas Monitors Oakland City Council Meeting On Athletics Baseball Park Proposal Tuesday; Oakland Council Approves Non-Binding Term Sheet; A’s Prez Says Term Sheet Doesn’t Work For Team

July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 Alan Snel Carolyn Goodman, Dave Kaval, John Fisher, Libby Schaaf, Oscar Goodman

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Metro Las Vegas residents tuned in to an Oakland City Council meeting Tuesday morning, when

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.

BRIEFS

Another day, another NBA arena idea in Las Vegas: During a quarterly earnings report call, VICI Properties execs said they’re teaming up with Caesars Entertainment on an idea to build an NBA arena behind three hotel-casinos in the center of the Strip just north of Flamingo Road.

The Thrill is back: The pro women’s volleyball team, the Thrill, was out of business last year but a press release says the Thrill has a new local owner and a new coach and details will be reveled at a Monday presser. The Las Vegas Thrill of Major League Volleyball used to play at the Lee Family Forum in Henderson.

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.