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USA Cricket has selected American Cricket Enterprises to help develop a top-tier professional T20 cricket league in the United States by 2021. The selection marks a significant development in a multistage evaluation process that started last year with an RFP to build a U.S.-based professional league in the shorter, popular T20 version of the sport. […]
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Overwatch League Commissioner Nate Nanzer has announced that he is leaving the league to oversee esports for Epic Games, the publisher of the popular game Fortnite. Nanzer has led OWL since its inception and was a key figure in the league’s decision to move events to the cities where its teams are located starting in 2020. Currently, […]
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Every four years, soccer gets a huge profile boost through the FIFA World Cup. With the Women’s World Cup set for France in 2019, soccer leaders in the United States are hopeful that the defending champion U.S. Women’s National Team will once again make a deep run and keep interest high when the event is […]
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The NCAA has announced key bid dates for its upcoming bid cycle that will determine hosts for hundreds of championships from 2022–2026. During the upcoming bid process, the NCAA will be seeking hosts for 86 of its 90 championships over each of the four academic years from 2022–2033 through 2025–2026. Those championships will be administered […]
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U.S. Rowing has selected Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida, to host the 2020 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Team Trials – Rowing. The event will be staged in April 2020 and will determine the teams the U.S. will send to the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games in Tokyo. The rowing venue also hosted the […]
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The NFL has awarded Cleveland the 2021 Draft and Kansas City the 2023 Draft as it continues its push to spread the showcase event around to cities across the country. The 2021 event in Cleveland will be staged at iconic downtown locations around FirstEnergy Stadium, including the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, as well […]
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State Farm will extend its sponsorship of League of Legends esports through 2021, including support for the LCS, three global events (World Championship, Mid-Season Invitational and All-Star Event) and the LoL College Championship. State Farm was one of the first non-endemic brands to embrace League of Legends in North America when it began its support […]
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Four cities in Colorado have been named as hosts of the 2019 Colorado Classic presented by VF Corporation cycling race: Steamboat Springs, Avon, Golden and Denver. The UCI stage race, to be held August 22–25, will be a standalone race featuring the world’s top women cyclists. Exact routes in each city will be announced in […]
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The new International Swimming League has named seven host cities and venues across the United States and Europe for its inaugural season, which will conclude in a temporary, 25-meter pool to be constructed at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. The new league has signed more than 200 of the world’s best swimmers, […]
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Visit Milwaukee has announced that Paul Upchurch will step down as president and CEO at the end of 2019, but will stay on to assist with planning for a convention center expansion and to help his successor in the position. Upchurch has led the organization for nine years, seeing tourism spending double to $3.2 billion […]
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