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Sam Boyd Stadium back when it hosted UNLV football games

UNLV Interested In Selling Sam Boyd Stadium To Clark County For $5 Million; Here’s An Idea: Clark County Buys UNLV Stadium, Uses It For F1 Race To Stop Complaints Of Las Vegas Grand Prix Ruining Strip

August 26, 2024August 26, 2024 Alan Snel Keith Whitfield, Tony Sanchez

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UNLV football photos by: Sarah Micinski of UNLV

UNLV

Heartbreak In Sin City For Winless UNLV: Utah State Comes Back To Defeat Rebels, 28-24, In Final Minute Despite Chuck Wagon’s Career Night At Allegiant Stadium Saturday

October 16, 2021October 16, 2021 Alan Snel Charles Williams, Lexington Thomas, Marcus Arroyo, Savon Scarver, Tony Sanchez

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The UNLV football team hitched a ride on the Chuck Wagon against Utah

COVID-19 Golden Knights Raiders Team UNLV

With Reed-Francois Taking Mizzou AD Job, Las Vegas Sports Market Loses Third Major Player In Three Weeks

August 8, 2021August 8, 2021 Alan Snel Brian Killingsworth, Desiree Reed-Francois, Kevin Kruger, Marc Badain, Marcus Arroyo, Marvin Menzies, T.J. Otzelberger, Tony Sanchez

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com With Sunday’s news that UNLV Athletic Director Desiree Reed-Francois took the University of Missouri’s AD

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Year in Review: LVSportsBiz.com’s Top 10 Sports-Business Stories of 2019

December 19, 2019December 19, 2019 Alan Snel Adam Silver, Bill Foley, Dana White, Derek Stevens, Desiree Reed-Francois, Floyd Kephart, Garry Bettman, Jim Murren, Kerry Bubolz, Kevin Camper, Marcus Arroyo, Seth Klarman, T.J. Otzelberger, Tony Sanchez

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Las Vegas is the frontier for sports business development in the U.S. It was difficult

UNLV football fans give a final toast to Sam Boyd Stadium Saturday.

UNLV

UNLV Football Says Goodbye To Sam Boyd Stadium With Dramatic 38-35 Win in 299th Home Game Saturday

November 23, 2019November 25, 2019 Alan Snel Tony Sanchez

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Sure, she’s not much to look at compared to other iconic and ultra-moden college

UNLV

Painful Ending To UNLV Football Game Saturday As Rebels Lose, 20-17, To San Diego State

October 26, 2019October 26, 2019 Alan Snel Dan Dolby, Daniel Gutierrez, Desiree Reed-Francois, Kenon Oblad, Tony Sanchez

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com I strolled the sidelines at tonight’s UNLV football game and you can’t help but notice

UNLV was leading 49-7 in the third period.

UNLV

UNLV’s Football Team Starts Final Season at Sam Boyd Stadium with 56-23 Rout of Southern Utah; Announced Attendance at 17,421

August 31, 2019September 1, 2019 Alan Snel Armani Rogers, Charles Williams, Dan Dolby, Desiree Reed-Francois, Tony Sanchez

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell UNLV’s football team began saying farewell to Sam Boyd

Samina the psychic at Mountain West Conference football media day courtesy of Hawaii coach Nick Rolovich

UNLV

Mountain West Football Media Event Delivers UNLV Coach Sanchez and Samina The Fortune Teller

July 23, 2019July 23, 2019 Alan Snel Britney Spears, Elvis Presley, Nick Rolovich, Tony Sanchez

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com There’s no official new Mountain West football TV deal, so the news out of the

UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez chats with local Vegas media Wednesday.

UNLV

UNLV Football Waiting For NCAA Permission To Bring Recruits To Las Vegas Stadium Construction Site

July 25, 2018 Alan Snel Tony Sanchez

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez can easily show the new on-campus football training center

UNLV defenders were chasing the Howard quarterback, Caylin Newton, all night long and now the university's sports marketers will face a challenge drawing fans and advertisers after Saturday's embarrassing loss to a 45-point underdog. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

UNLV

Did UNLV Football Just Become America’s Toughest Sports Marketing Sell with Saturday’s Embarrassing Loss?

September 3, 2017September 3, 2017 Alan Snel Dan Dolby, Desiree, Erik Pappa, Tony Sanchez

By ALAN SNEL A half-hour before kickoff of UNLV’s football season, alum Tony Iverson held a beer in a

July 5, 2021

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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

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