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Anatomy of a Season Ticket Upgrade: How Two Raiders Fans Improved Their Season Ticket Deal At New Allegiant Stadium In Las Vegas

November 11, 2019 Alan Snel Marc Badain

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Some of the best negotiations you will ever hear is between a sports fan and

Raiders Stadium

Raiders Add Las Vegas Ford Dealers To Stadium Founding Partners List; Team Prez Expects ‘More Than A Dozen’ Founding Partners

November 6, 2019 Alan Snel Brad Jones, Gary Ackerman, Marc Badain, Reggie Kinlaw

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com When casino tycoon/Las Vegas billionaire/local newspaper owner Sheldon Adelson bailed on the Raiders stadium and

San Manuel Band of Mission Indians CEO Loren Gill at the Raiders sponsorship announcement at the Raiders preview center in Town Square.

Gambling Raiders Stadium

Raiders Cut Multi-Year Founding Partner Stadium Deal With San Manuel Casino

October 14, 2019October 14, 2019 Alan Snel Loren Gill, Marc Badain

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders has struck a founding partner stadium deal with Southern California’s San

Raiders President Marc Badain addresses Las Vegas Bowl luncheon attendees Thursday.

Las Vegas Bowl Raiders Stadium

Raiders To Help Las Vegas Bowl Sell Tickets, Market Game When Bowl Game Moves To New Stadium In 2020

September 26, 2019September 26, 2019 Alan Snel Antonio Brown, Chet Buchanan, John Saccenti, Marc Badain, Ryan Leaf

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com With the Las Vegas Bowl moving from good ol’ Sam Boyd Stadium near the Las

Raiders stadium is Allegiant Stadium under a new naming rights deal announced Monday.

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It’s Official: Raiders Stadium is Allegiant Stadium; Naming Rights Deal Announced At Topping Out Event Monday Morning

August 5, 2019August 5, 2019 Alan Snel Cliff Branch, Eric Johnson, Fred Biletnikoff, Jason Gilbert, Lawrence Epstein, Marc Badain, Mark Davis, Maury Gallagher, Myron Todichinii, Otis Sistrunk, Scott DeAngelo, Sonny Begay

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Raiders owner Mark Davis said his word of the day

Discount carrier Allegiant Air is based in Summerlin is known for targeting leisure travelers.

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Travel Marketing Signs Point To Allegiant Air As Raiders Stadium’s Naming Rights Partner In Las Vegas

August 1, 2019August 2, 2019 Alan Snel Marc Badain, Mark Davis

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com All the business marketing signs are pointing to Summerlin-based Allegiant Air as the naming rights

Raiders stadium, under construction, will host the 2020 and 2021 Pac-12 football championship games.

Raiders Stadium

Pac-12 To Hold Conference Football Title Game At Raiders’ Las Vegas Stadium In 2020, 2021

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 Alan Snel Larry Scott, Marc Badain

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com The Raiders and their new Las Vegas stadium operators, AEG Facilities, added another date on

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Raiders Begin Working with NFL, Local Las Vegas Committee on NFL Draft Event in Las Vegas in 2020; How Will Stadium Construction Site Be Blended Into Event?

June 21, 2019 Alan Snel Marc Badain

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com As Thursday’s NBA Draft showed, leagues staging player draft events in host cities have become

Las Vegas Bowl LVCVA Raiders Stadium

Las Vegas Bowl Starts New Era At Raiders Stadium In 2020 With Pac-12 Team Matched Vs SEC/Big Ten School

June 4, 2019June 7, 2019 Alan Snel Brent Musburger, Marc Badain, Steve Hill

The ESPN-owned Las Vegas Bowl has dumped its affiliation with the Mountain West Conference and will feature a match-up of

Raiders stadium under construction in Las Vegas. A construction project adviser who wants to build a soccer stadium in downtown Las Vegas was once involved in talking with the Raiders about a stadium project at the Coliseum City site in Oakland/Alameda County four years ago.

Lights Raiders Stadium

It’s A Small World: Downtown Las Vegas Soccer Stadium Development Adviser Had Talked With Raiders About New NFL Stadium In Oakland In 2015

May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 Alan Snel Carolyn Goodman, Floyd Kephart, Marc Badain

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Las Vegas and Oakland. Oakland and Las Vegas. Two cities joined at the sports

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.

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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

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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.