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Boondoggle or Legit Public Spending?: Travel Expense Records Show LVCVA Spent About $200,000 On College Football Championship Trip To Miami In January

October 29, 2026October 29, 2026 Alan Snel Andy Gorchov, Brian Yost, Erick Harper, Jeremy Aguero, Jim Gibson, John Saccenti, Justin Carley, Kate Wik, Mike Newcomb, Sandra Douglass Morgan, Steve Hill, Will Hunter

(Publisher’s Note: Why do we report these record-based Las Vegas stories? People promoting Las Vegas as a destination claim sports

Allegiant Stadium College football Investigative LVCVA Sports Marketing Sports Tourism

On The Open Records Beat: LVSportsBiz.com Uncovers LVCVA Sports Executive Salaries, Including $347,000/Year For Chief Sports Officer

June 30, 2026June 30, 2026 Alan Snel Brian Yost, Janis Burke, Jennifer Hawkins, Joe Lombardo, Kevin McMahill, Steve Hill, Will Hunter

By Alan Snel, LVportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer LAS VEGAS, Nevada — You can make a nice living promoting sports for the Las Vegas

LVCVA Marketing Sports Marketing

LVCVA Spends Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars On Sports, But Has Not Publicly Disclosed Salaries For Three New Sports Marketing Staffers; Also, LVCVA Board To Vote On Massive Contract For R&R Partners Tuesday

May 8, 2026May 8, 2026 Alan Snel Brian Yost, Erick Harper, Janis Burke, Jennifer Hawkins, Will Hunter

How Las Vegas spends your public dollars: The LVCVA meets Tuesday May 12 and the public tourism agency board will

LVCVA Sports Marketing Sports Tourism

Three Percent Of Las Vegas Visitors Say Primary Reason To Visit Vegas In 2025 Was To Attend Sports Event, According to LVCVA Tourist Report

March 20, 2026March 20, 2026 Alan Snel Jennifer Hawkins, Molly Castano, Will Hunter

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Allegiant Stadium Fans Formula 1 Formula One LVCVA Sports Marketing Sports Tourism Super Bowl Tourism

LVCVA Hires New Chief Sports Officer; Janis Burke Worked Previously At Houston Sports Authority

March 19, 2026March 19, 2026 Alan Snel Brian Yost, Janis Burke, Jennifer Hawkins, Will Hunter

ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The LVCVA has a new chief sports officer. Her

LVCVA NFL Sports Marketing Sports Tourism Stadiums/Arenas (General) Super Bowl Tourism Travel

LVCVA Hiring New Staff For Sports Work: New VP Of Sports Development Named After Events VP Hired In October; Next Job To Be Filled: Chief Sports Officer

December 13, 2025 Alan Snel Jennifer Hawkins, Steve Hill, Will Hunter

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Steve Hill, LVCVA CEO. Photo credit: Hugh Byrne/LVSportsBiz.com

College football LVCVA Sports Marketing Sports Tourism Travel

LVCVA Paid $190,700 To Company For Four Months Of Work On 2027 College Football Championship Game In Las Vegas Under Flawed Contract Awarded By LVCVA In March

October 13, 2025October 13, 2025 Alan Snel Brian Yost, Jeff Motley, Lisa Motley, Steve Hill, Will Hunter

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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. And like the Vegas Golden Knights, LVSportsBiz.com is celebrating its tenth birthday in 2027.

LVSportsBiz.com’s Written Word Series: Our storytelling focuses on original story lines.

June 2024: A father’s connection

June 2026: Baseball and the radio

April 2018: NHL team born in the desert

March 2020: Gratitude for being alive

June 2017: Birth of a website

August 2026: Team president does it all

LVSportsBiz.com endorses RIPT ULTRA for your sports headphones needs. I report hundreds of stories a year at venues where these headphones allow me to focus and write. Order these headphones here.

LVSportsBiz.com coverage of Athletics stadium project on Strip in Las Vegas.

A’s owner John Fisher in Las Vegas

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.