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Golden Knights Sponsors Still Getting Attention Even Without Fans; VGK Score Fourth Straight Win To Start Pandemic Season With 5-2 Win Over Arizona Wednesday

January 20, 2021January 21, 2021 Alan Snel Alex Pietrangelo, Marc Andre-Fleury, Mark Stone, Nick Schmaltz, Pete DeBoer, Shea Theodore

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Golden Knights fans are not here at the Big Ice House by the Strip

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Marc-Andre Fleury returned to goal in gold. Photo by VGK.
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Golden Knights Go Gold Saturday Night As VGK Tie Score Late In Game, Win Seven Seconds Into OT Against Anaheim Ducks

January 16, 2021January 16, 2021 Alan Snel John Gibson, Jonathan Marchessault, Marc Andre-Fleury, Mark Stone, Pete DeBoer, Robin Lehner, William Karlsson

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It’s less than 90 minutes from puck drop inside the big arena off the Strip,

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NHL, Golden Knights Return To Las Vegas Minus Fans Thursday Night: VGK 5 Anaheim 2

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 Alan Snel Alex Tuch, Carnell Johnson, Jonathan Marchessault, Lee Orchard, Marc Andre-Fleury, Mark Shunock, Mark Stone, Max Pacioretty, Pete DeBoer, Robin Lehner, Tomas Nosek

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com They cranked the arena’s famed powerful sound system full throttle like in the good ol’

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Golden Knights T-Mobile Arena 

In This Crazy World, Vegas Golden Knights Season-Opener On Strip Brings Smiles And Pinch Of Normalcy Thursday

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 Alan Snel Deryk Engelland, Gerard Gallant, Jon Merrill, Marc Andre-Fleury, Mark Stone, Nate Schmidt, Pete DeBoer, Reilly Smith

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com In this messed-up, sadness-filled, convoluted world of a novel coronavirus that has killed 383,000 Americans,

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Golden Knights 

VGK Training Camp: Knights Prep For Thursday’s Season-Opener Of What Will Be A Very Unique NHL Season

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Cody Glass, George McPhee, Jonathan Marchessault, Marc Andre-Fleury, Mark Stone, Pete DeBoer, Robin Lehner, Ryan Reaves, Tomas Nosek, William Carrier

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell The Vegas Golden Knights are slicing some payroll fat

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Golden Knights 

Even In Wall Mural Showing Core VGK Players At Team Ice Center, Lehner In, Fleury Out

January 6, 2021 Alan Snel Alex Pietrangelo, Jonathan Marchessault, Marc Andre-Fleury, Shea Theodore, William Karlsson

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com On the third day of Vegas Golden Knights training camp, I got my first look

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Mark Stone, perhaps a future VGK captain one day?
Golden Knights 

Golden Knights Prepare For Fourth Season By Opening Training Camp Monday

January 4, 2021January 4, 2021 Alan Snel Alex Pietrangelo, Jonathan Marchessault, Marc Andre-Fleury, Pete DeBoer

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com An abbreviated preseason started Monday for the Vegas Golden Knights as they joined 30 other

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Goodbye Raiders, Hello Golden Knights: Las Vegas Market Pivots From NFL to NHL In January Of New Year

January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 Alan Snel Derek Carr, Marc Andre-Fleury, Robin Lehner

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Buh-bye 2020 and Las Vegas Raiders. Hello 2021 and Vegas Golden Knights. The Raiders’ crazy

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Golden Knights 

COVID-19 and Sports: Many Unanswered Questions Facing NHL, Golden Knights With Jan. 1 Targeted Season Start Date

November 14, 2020November 15, 2020 Alan Snel Deryk Engelland, Jon Merrill, Marc Andre-Fleury, Nate Schmidt, Robin Lehner

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The National Hockey League wants to start the new new season Jan. 1, a mere

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Golden Knights 

VGK Owner Foley Says Having 10 Percent Of Fan Capacity At Knights Games At T-Mobile Arena Is ‘Not Enough’

October 16, 2020 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Marc Andre-Fleury, Robin Lehner

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Golden Knights owner Bill Foley and other NHL owners are nervous. Without NHL arenas filled

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July 5, 2021

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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. Our story of the month on F1 economics and race event in Las Vegas.


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Our coverage of the Athletics stadium project 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

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

How Deal Was Made For A’s Ballpark On Strip

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May 24, 2021

Our bicycle story collection:

Red Rock Scenic Drive outside Las Vegas

Let’s Pedal Zion National Park

Bicycling Bristlecone Trail At 9,000 Feet Outside Vegas

Bicycling Las Vegas far from Strip

Incomparable Grand Canyon by bike

Move over road cycling, here comes mountain biking in Las Vegas

Pedaling Zion National Park

Biking magical Seattle and the Northwest

Remembering the Knapper

Bicycling the Tour de Stadiums of Las Vegas

Remembering BeFly Beth

Las Vegas bicyclist struck by bullet during memorial ride

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