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By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

Circa Las Vegas hotel-casino owner Derek Stevens is a brilliant marketing man, but even he wouldn’t try to combine Circa’s mammoth sportsbook with the hotel’s popular Stadium Swim pool area.

Thursday’s torrential downpour caused a nasty water mess in Circa’s giant sportsbook as workers tried to clean up the water the best they could. It didn’t take long for the water videos to start hitting the ol’ Twitter.

Former MGM Resorts executive and current Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff will be the star of the show for Pac-12 Media Day after conference brand name sports programs USC and UCLA bolted for the Big Ten.

Kliavkoff, the former MGM sports and entertainment president, faces the daunting task in his second year of trying to keep a once-proud conference together after the Trojans and Bruins head to the Midwest.

Las Vegas-based UFC is rolling out some new licensed logo gear merchandise and

Here’s the Sports Business Journal’s Adam Stern with this news nugget today: “The UFC has teamed up with the Amazon Merch on Demand platform to put some new merchandise on offer. The fighting property this week started making several items with new designs — like T-shirts, hoodies and cell phone cases — available through a catalogue that it launched with Amazon Merch On Demand. That is Amazon’s product that allows content creators to upload their own designs and have them printed as merchandise whenever someone buys it. The new line will be available on UFC’s e-commerce site, run by Zappos. UFC SVP/Global Consumer Products Tracey Bleczinski helped set up the deal.”

Raiders everyman-looking slot receiver Hunter Renfrow makes it to Sports Business Journal today.

NBA superstar and business investor LeBron James has a new investment and it’s based on two wheels.

According to Front Office Sports, James is investing in Canyon Bicycles:

The Dollar Loan Center in Henderson is hosting its first-ever Summer Bash and School Supply Drive on Thursday, August 4. The community is invited to the Tiltyard, TDLC’s outdoor plaza area, for a day of family-friendly fun that will include water slides, yard games, a dunk tank, a live DJ, and more. Food and beverage options will also be available for purchase. Admission to the Summer Bash is free.

All attendees are encouraged to bring school supplies or a cash donation, which will be distributed to local Henderson schools in need of supplies for the upcoming academic year. The full list of requested supplies is below. In addition, the community can expect appearances from select Vegas Golden Knights, Henderson Silver Knights, and Vegas Knight Hawks personnel. Player appearances are subject to change.

TDLC SUMMER BASH & SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE

WHERE: TDLC, 200 S Green Valley Parkway

SUMMER BASH EVENT (Tiltyard): 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

WALK-UP DONATION COLLECTION (Tiltyard Lobby): 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

DRIVE-UP DONATION COLLECTION (South Entrance): 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

SUPPLIES NEEDED INCLUDE: Dry erase markers, sticky notes, colored card stock, colored paper, pencils, binder clips, markers, crayons, colored pencils, glue sticks, glue, rulers, sanitizer wipes, scissors, poster board, magnets, clipboards, Ziplock bags, Kleenex, paper towels, backpacks, lunch boxes and bags, folders, notebooks, erasers, pencil boxes, manual pencil sharpeners, index cards, highlighters, rulers, pens, loose leaf paper, three-ring binders, binder dividers, weekly planners, protractors, sharpies, and combination locks.

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.

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Happy 5th Anniversary to LVSportsBiz.com:

LVSportsBiz.com publisher Alan Snel talked with KLAS Channel 8 Sports Director Chris Maathuis about LVSportsBiz.com’s fifth anniversary on Game On! Vegas Sunday evening, June 5.

LVSPORTSBIZ.COM’s profile of July: Las Vegas Raiders’ new president, Sandra Douglass Morgan.

WATCHDOG journalism: Our story on the LVCVA public tourism promotion agency spending nearly $165,000 on attending the NFL Super Bowl in Los Angeles in February 2022.

COSTS to ATTEND Raiders and Golden Knights games. These stories are based on the research of Chicago-based Team Marketing Report.

RAIDERS: The average Raiders home ticket is $153.47 — the most expensive average ticket in the 32-team NFL.

GOLDEN KNIGHTS: The average Golden Knights home ticket is $124.09 — the fourth most expensive average ticket in the 32-team NHL.

LVSportsBiz.com Raiders stories to read:

— Raiders fans inside Allegiant Stadium for first time

— Many sides of Allegiant Stadium

— Raiders stadium — Las Vegas sports-business story of 2021

— Mark Davis revamps front office

— Mark Davis’ close advisor and friend 

—On Raiders’ first game with fans at Allegiant Stadium

LVSportsBiz.com’s reader traffic: We eclipsed 1 million readers in May 2022. LVSportsBiz.com is the feisty news site that reports the convergence of sports, marketing, stadiums, business, development, sponsorships, fans and politics. Take advantage of our success by coming on board as an LVSportsBiz.com advertiser. Contact publisher Alan Snel at asnel@LVSportsBiz.com

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This news site is operated by Alan Snel, a veteran metro newspaper journalist who reports enterprise, analysis and breaking news on the business side of sports in Las Vegas.

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