Year: 2024

Head of the Charles Regatta

Head of the Charles Regatta Names Tori Stevens as Executive Director

The Head of the Charles Regatta, the world’s largest rowing regatta, announced that Tori Stevens will assume the role of executive director beginning July 1, succeeding Fred Schoch, who had a 33-year tenure leading the Regatta. Stevens comes to HOCR after serving as chief executive officer for SUP3R, an affiliated company of Superfly. Before her […]

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Las Vegas Aces
The Las Vegas Aces played host to a sellout crowd earlier this season when beating the Indiana Fever at Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Photo by Matt Traub/SportsTravel

WNBA to Interview LVCVA Leadership Regarding Aces Sponsorship

Steve Hill, chief executive officer and president of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, will interview Tuesday with the lead investigator who is examining whether WNBA rules were broken when sponsorship deals were offered last month to players of the two-time defending league champion Las Vegas Aces. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority […]

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OLY Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony
Barges cruise on the Seine river near the Eiffel Tower during a rehearsal for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony, Monday in Paris. The river will host the Opening Ceremony on July 26. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

Boats Cruise River Seine in a Opening Ceremony Rehearsal

Onlookers gathered along the River Siene as dozens of boats floated down the river on Monday in a rehearsal for the Paris Olympics’ unique Opening Ceremony next month. A total of 55 boats made the journey from Pont d’Austerlitz to Pont d’Iéna near the Eiffel Tower. On the day of the event, around 200 Olympic […]

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Liberty Sky Basketball
New York's Breanna Stewart drives to the basket as Chicago's Angel Reese defends during the second half of a WNBA game in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

WNBA Commissioner’s Cup Final Moved to UBS Arena

The WNBA Commissioner’s Cup championship game between the New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx on June 25 will be at UBS Arena in Long Island because the NBA Draft makes the Barclays Center unavailable, the league announced. The draft is the next night and there wouldn’t be enough time to change over the arena. The […]

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Kazuki Yoshinaga
From left, skaters of South Korea, China, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy compete during the men's 5,000m relay final at the 2023 ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Seoul. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

U.S. Remains Key Market for International Skating Union

With the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships heading to Boston and the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games primed to be hosted in Salt Lake City, it only made sense the International Skating Union’s annual congress was held last week in Las Vegas. The ISU, which oversees speed skating as well as figure skating, had […]

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Mike Trimboli

Mike Trimboli Re-Elected President of USA Hockey

Mike Trimboli was unanimously re-elected to another three-year term as president of the organization during the USA Hockey Congress Meeting in Denver that concluded the organization’s four-day annual meeting recently. Trimboli, from Massena, New York, has been involved in grassroots hockey as a player, coach, official and administrator for parts of the past six decades. […]

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NJCAA West Texas A&M

NJCAA DI Football Championship Heading to West Texas A&M

West Texas A&M University will host the NJCAA Division I Football Championship starting in 2024 and going through 2027, the national governing body announced. West Texas A&M will host the championship at Bain-Schaeffer Buffalo Stadium in Canyon, Texas, which opened in 2019. The 2024 title game will take place on December 18 at 8 p.m. […]

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Rickwood Field Front
Rickwood Field still has a lot of its original architecture and plenty of old school charm. Photo courtesy of the GBCVB

Major League Baseball, Rickwood Field to Spotlight Negro League Greats

Rickwood Field is a bucket list location for any baseball fan and June 20, the world will get the full experience of the oldest professional ballpark in the United States. The field in Birmingham, Alabama, which opened in 1910, has seen 180 future Baseball Hall of Famers compete on its hallowed grounds. Now, Rickwood Field […]

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