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COVID-19 Raiders Team 

Raiders Players Draw Heat For Not Wearing Masks At Waller’s Charity Event, Violating Coronavirus Protocols

September 30, 2020October 2, 2020 Alan Snel Darren Waller, Derek Carr, JC Tretter, Jon Gruden, Mark Davis

By Cassandra Cousineau for LVSportsBiz.com  As the NFL is coping with a COVID-19 outbreak of three players and five staff

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Raiders Stadium UNLV 

Allegiant Stadium’s First Football Fans In Attendance Could Be UNLV Football Fans

September 29, 2020 Alan Snel Desiree Reed-Francois, Marcus Arroyo, Mark Davis

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com UNLV football games might end up having the first fans at the Raiders’ new Allegiant

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Raiders Stadium Raiders Team 

Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium Open For Business As Raiders Beat Saints, 34-24, On Monday Night Football In Historic First Home Game In Las Vegas

September 21, 2020September 22, 2020 Alan Snel Derek Carr, Drew Brees, Jon Gruden, Ken Stabler, Mark Davis

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com It’s a good-looking shiny new stadium, this massive domed venue sitting off an interstate a

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The stadium on game today.
Raiders Stadium Raiders Team 

Raiders Open Stadium Monday, Make History In Las Vegas

September 21, 2020September 22, 2020 Alan Snel Derek Carr, Marc Badain, Mark Davis, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Sisolak

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Today is history in Las Vegas. A new $2 billion stadium project opens Monday. The

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Allegiant Stadium made its debut Monday Night Sept. 21 when Raiders hosted and defeated the New Orleans Saint. Photo credit: LaNacionRaider
Raiders Stadium Raiders Team 

Raiders Fans Make Pilgrimage To New Stadium Sunday, Even If They Can’t Attend Monday Night’s Stadium Debut

September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 Alan Snel Marc Badain, Mark Davis

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com You know it’s going to be a big event when the friendly Channel 8 anchorwoman

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Raiders runner Josh Jacobs
Raiders Stadium Raiders Team 

Las Vegas Raiders Make Las Vegas History With Entertaining 34-30 Win Over Carolina Panthers Sunday

September 13, 2020September 14, 2020 Alan Snel Christian McCaffrey, Jon Gruden, Josh Jacobs, Mark Davis

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com In these bizarre and heartbreaking times of racial injustice protests, 200,000 dead Americans from a

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Raiders Stadium 

Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium Will Open As Cashless Venue For All Events

September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 Alan Snel Mark Davis

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium is billing itself as the first professional sports venue in the

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Possible polling site on Election Day
Raiders Stadium Raiders Team 

Use Of Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium As Polling Site In November Under Consideration

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Donald Trump, George Floyd, Joe Biden, Mark Davis

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The idea of using the Raiders’ new Allegiant Stadium as a polling site in November

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Raiders Stadium Raiders Team 

Raiders Season Ticket Holders Receive Gift Of Allegiant Stadium

August 26, 2020 Alan Snel Mark Davis

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Raiders season ticket holders will not be attending home games at new Allegiant Stadium in

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Raiders Stadium Raiders Team 

Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium Pumps Brakes On Hiring Part-Time Workers In Light Of No Fans, Cancelled Events

August 22, 2020August 22, 2020 Alan Snel Mark Davis

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com A mere two months ago, the Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium was looking to hire 4,500 part-time workers

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LVSportsBiz Contact

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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BRIEFS

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.”

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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

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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.

 

 

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