Year: 2024

Lane Community College Pickleball

Travel Lane County Charitable Fund Donates $50K to New Pickleball Facility

The Travel Lane County Charitable Fund in Eugene, Oregon, has announced a $50,000 donation to the planned Regional Pickleball Complex at Lane Community College. The Emerald Valley Pickleball Foundation aims to break ground on the complex in May 2025 and finish construction by fall 2025. The facility will feature 24 lighted courts, 10 of them […]

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Shinnecock

Shinnecock Hills to Host U.S. Open for Men and Women in 2036

Shinnecock Hills Golf Club will host both the 2036 U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open with the championships taking place in consecutive weeks at the historic club in Southampton, New York. One of the five founding member clubs of the United States Golf Association, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club is the oldest incorporated golf club in […]

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Britain Wimbledon Tennis
Novak Djokovic kisses the winners trophy as he celebrates after beating Nick Kyrgios to win the men's final at Wimbledon in London. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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Sports and COVID-19: The Impact on the Sports-Event Industry

Editor’s Note: The pandemic that started in early 2020 upended the world order and sports was not exempt; in fact, when the NBA announced that it was pausing its season in the wake of Rudy Gobert’s positive test for COVID-19, our staff was gathered for dinner at an industry event in Colorado Springs, Colorado. From […]

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Jai and Jayan
Jayan Gandhi (left) and Jai Malhotra have organized the first ever sports analytics conference specifically for high school students. The National High School Sports Analytics Conference will take place in Boston on March 2.

Boston High School Students to Host Inaugural National High School Sports Analytics Summit

Getting a big-name keynote speaker for any conference is challenging. However, a group of high school students in the Boston area didn’t have much trouble snagging three well-known speakers for their National High School Sports Analytics Summit, which takes place on March 2. Jai Malhotra, a sophomore at Milton Academy, and Jayan Gandhi, a junior […]

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Gran Fondo

USA Cycling Gran Fondo Championship Becomes World Qualifier

The 2023 and 2024 USA Cycling Gran Fondo National Championships will become an official qualifier event for Masters aiming to compete in the 2024 and 2025 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships, the national governing body announced in partnership with the international event organizer. Masters racers who win competitions in their age group (30+) at the […]

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Pickleball

MLP and PPA Pickleball Tours Officially Complete Merger

The PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball have completed a previously announced merger of the two professional tours under a unified holding company that will allow the brands to be promoted under one roof. The consolidation of the two entities is backed by a $75 million investment by private equity firm SC Holdings, D.C. Pickleball […]

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2024 Olympic Organizers Inaugurate Olympic Village, Announce More Ticket Sales

On a day where the Olympic Village was officially handed over to organizers for the 2024 Olympic Summer Games, a venue that Paris has touted as having a positive long-term impact on the city, French President Emmanuel Macron also drew attention to another long-term project when he promised to swim in the River Seine that […]

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Winter Olympics Salt Lake City
In this February 8, 2002, file photo, fireworks burst over the athlete tribune at the Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium in Salt Lake City during the Opening Ceremonies for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Salt Lake City is in line to host the Games again in 2034. (AP Photo/Frank Gunn, File)

SLC-Utah 2034 Olympic Organizers Submit Bid to International Olympic Committee

The Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games officially submitted its bid to host the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games on Thursday to the International Olympic Committee with an eye toward being officially announced as the host for a future Games on July 24. The International Olympic Committee’s Future Host Commission invited Salt Lake […]

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